“There are times when city dwellers have been roused from passivity – Disaster (Ground Zero) and personal affront (NIMBYism) make protesters out of us all, but we are rarely roused from the day-to-day ...

For example, if you are talking to a client, you might want to focus on the benefits, aesthetics, and functionality of your design, using clear and simple language and visual aids.

When Modernist architects revolutionized the art of building in the 1920s, they scrubbed classical decoration—and classical terms. In the process of simplification that followed, language, too ...

Galleria di Diana in Venaria Royal Palace, an example of Classical architecture. The Classical Language is an example of an "extremely successful form language". Image Courtesy of shutterstock.com ...

These are just two examples of many new initiatives that have been combining handcraft techniques and digital technology. This move seems to highlight a strange contradiction in the world (and in ...

“The Architecture of Happiness” by Alain de Botton Pantheon, 280 pp., $25. Subtle insights, presented with playful precision — that’s what London author Alain de Botton reliably provides ...