A long afternoon's walk at the Rockefeller Preserve has lessons for today's design: do we harmonize with nature or frame it?

Speakers at this year's Monterey Design Conference offered views looking both forward and backward on what's happening in architecture.

Young people at the International Building Festival in Moscow came together to confront this fantastic country's architecture and urban design challenges. Isn't freedom great?Seal on the Central House of Architects, Moscow

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity is at New York’s Museum of Modern Art from November 8 until January 25 

Traveling by bus, by bicycle, by foot, and relying of the generosity of LA architects, I successfully transversed the city, visiting multiple projects and with an abundance of serendipitous encounters

A panel of talking heads will tackle the ambiguous but intriguing topic of design and play.

I recently began reading The Singularity is Near, the contentious book by futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil argues that the rapid advancement of information technology and bioengineering will erase the distinction between humans and computers by the middle of this century. The book is fascinating but dense, and

Architect Helmut Jahn, FAIA, of Chicago-based Murphy/Jahn, once known for Postmodern towers topped with iconic hats and spires, opened his 2009 Architectural Record/GreenSource Innovation talk by posing the rhetorical question: “Is modern architecture sustainable?” But then, he discounted his own query

John Straube’s presentation, “Building it Right: Fenestration for Net Zero Buildings,” at the Architectural Record/Green Source 2009 Innovation Conference proved to be, shall we say, enlightening, if not a little chilling...