Read an excerpt from the forthcoming survey of midcentury landscapes, which explores the sometimes fraught relationships among landscape architecture, building, and photography.

The 93-year-old New York developer's retelling of his role in the World Trade Center's rebirth offers some real-estate insight, but avoids personal introspection.

Titled 'I.M. Pei: Life is Architecture,' the exhibition covers the Chinese-American architect's decorated career and famously long life.

From modest community-built wading pools to expansive coastal attractions, the architect explores the history and ecological potential of saltwater sanctuaries.

Forum: As proposals expand in scale and scope, and public spending increases, large-scale pro sports developments fall flat as gestures of urban goodwill.

Ranging from a multifaceted treatise on design by Jeanne Gang to a posthumously published autobiography by Antoine Predock, this selection of books sheds new light on architectural practice.

Both on view through next winter, the new shows pick up on different strains of location-specific Modernism to ponder what could be or what might have been.

Memorials and museums are moving from confrontation to comfort, diluting the past's potency.

Expansive and unprogrammed indoor public spaces offer an antidote to the commercialization of contemporary cities.