Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

Gareth Doherty’s book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2025. Photo courtesy of the University of Virginia Press.

In The Round. Courtesy of Iman Fayyad. While many installations address the harsh political climate with soft materials like inflatables and fabrics, Thin Volumes: In the Round by assistant professor ...

Ancient pollen trapped in fresco wall-paintings, like a mosquito in amber, provides a historical ecological snapshot. Compacted grains of garden soil preserve 2,000-year-old footsteps. Even the ...

A shading pavilion in the park. A pop-up chapel in a parking lot. A pollinator tower in a plaza. These architectural interventions differ in material, form, and scale, yet they share a common purpose: ...

Recent mid-term thesis reviews for the Master of Architecture I degree at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), which gathered exceptional critics from practice and academia, revealed a clear ...

On a late summer day, AquaPraça—a floating 400-square-meter steel platform, painted brilliant white—appeared in the Venetian Lagoon, destined for its September 5 debut at the 19th International ...

At a moment when the word “design” has come to refer to everything and thus nothing, this issue examines the […] ...

The more stuff we accumulate, the more space we need to store it all. Vast portions of the landscape are […] ...

But today, beyond the intentional construction and exchange of messages, we are all constantly “read” as data. While we offer our identities as moldable content and marketing fodder with every click; ...

The exploration of disciplinary cores continues with a second volume of the core series, dedicated to Landscape Architecture. The question what is “Landscape Architecture’s Core?” has led us to the ...

I grew up in a domestic world that seemed to hospitably reconfigure itself around our family’s evolving interests and enterprises. As my younger brother’s model horse and airplane collections expanded ...