To those who have visited Provincetown, Massachusetts, it would be hard to imagine a 20,000-square-foot institutional building rising up in the middle of that quaint, New England seaside town.

At a time when Americans are deeply divided about the role of government and whether judges should interpret or apply the law, courthouse architecture has become a potential battlefield.

The more successful buildings by Rafael Viñoly, FAIA, display distinct athletic gestures—from the smoothly arcing roof of the 1994 Lehman College Physical Education Facility in New York to the exuberant, glass-barrel-vaulted roof of the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts in Philadelphia.

Success has been bittersweet for Stephen Kanner, FAIA. Expanding Kanner Architects meant that Kanner, the third-generation principal of the firm, would have to move out of the Los Angeles office where he had worked since joining his father, Charles, in 1982.

The downtown boutique aesthetic that emerged in New York City’s SoHo loft district in the late 1970s caught on––and stuck around––largely because it showed off arty clothes to striking effect.

Roger Ferris, AIA, approaches each architectural and design program with an eye focused on client needs and expectations.

While growing up in Mumbai, India, during the 1970s and ’80s, Abhay Wadhwa had little idea that one day he would helm his own architectural lighting design firm based in New York City, he says.

Poised on the southern tip of Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center redevelopment site, Battery Park is one of New York City’s oldest open public spaces along the Hudson River.