Articles
Selected articles, 2007–2020 (in reverse chronological order)
Alejandro Aravena Q&A
He Contained Multitudes
The Art of the Green New Deal
The Internet Loves Breezewood
The Unstoppable Bradford Pear
Floating Cities
Radical Suburbs
Tending Urban Forests
The Look of Mormon
The Original Green New Deal
Architecture’s Style Wars
Millennial Homebuyers
Designing the ‘Memory Town’
Disrupting Construction
Secret Cities
The Millennial Suburb
The Case for a Suburban HQ2
Architecture, Elevated
Don’t Landmark Fannie Mae
Rich Wins MacArthur
Morris Milgram’s Crusade
Octopus Urbanism
Amy Weinstein, Neo-Victorian
Deer of Suburbia
Welcome to Utopia
This Is Your Brain on Architecture
The Right v. Modernism
The Pentagon Fights Sprawl
Kitsch of Parts
The Case for Ugly
Grand Designs
Diplomatic Design
Why Silicon Valley Sprawls
Architecture of an Asylum
McMansiontopia
What Should Cities Make?
The Future of the Past
Time-Travel Therapy
A Bridge to Equity?
Tactical Urbanism
Ban the (Glass) Box
Bing Thom’s D.C. Library
The Eureka Machine
NMAAHC Prepares to Open
How NMAAHC Evolved
The Other 9/11 Memorial
Trump v. Hadrian
Review: Now I Sit Me Down
Rust Belt Design
Build a New Air & Space
How Olympic Cities Fare
Breuer Under Threat
Raising Livestock in the City
Disturbia
MIT’s Future of Suburbia
Scott Brown + Venturi
Suzane Reatig
Q&A: Rebekah Wingert-Jabi
Why Hawksmoor Matters
Redefining Deaf Space
WWI Memorial Design
New Suburbia, Part 3
The Case for Great Shelters
New Suburbia, Part 2
New Suburbia, Part 1
The Missing Middle
NMAAHC
Gallaudet’s Deaf Spaces
BIGSkins
The Height of Efficiency
Paint It Gray
More Filthy Lucre
Brie Husted
Q&A: Paul Jaskot
The Law-Firm Lobby
Energy-Efficient Design
Un/Fair Use Review
La Casa Review
The Mall as American Dream
Reimagining Suburbia
Young-Old: Deane Simpson Q&A
Hearing Loss in the City
Whistler and Peacock Blue
Del Webb 2.0
Why D.C. Teaches Kids to Bike
It’s Okay to Change Your Name
Silver Spring Library Review
The Emerging Cuban Market
Ballers
The Tyranny of Snacks
Don’t Ruin Waffle House
Bodies at Work
Cities and Child Care
Filthy Lucre
RA Design Awards
Broadgate Exchange House
Pulp Pavilion
Free-Range Kids & the Law
Malls Aren’t Dying
Whither Sweet Briar?
College Park, College Town?
Social Design’s Rise & Fall
Museum of the Bible
Bjarke Ingels’ Hot to Cold
Architects and Second-Tier Cities
BBC Brutalism
Germany’s Car-Sharing Paradise
D.C. Punk’s Salad Days
Urbanizing Gas Stations
Ban Flash
Suburban Poverty
OMA, OLIN Design Bridge Park
A Housing Breakthrough
The Machine Is a Garden
The Tandoor Oven in a Park
Eisenhower Memorial Fight
Hadid v. NYRB
Leisure Fast and Slow
Memphis, Aerotropolis?
Married to the Mayor
Success in Succession
First Look: BIG Maze
Pablo Bronstein
Architect Loses Copyright Suit
Urban-Think Tank
Review: Designing for Disaster
Skyscrapers in the Subdivision
Walmart Scales Down
A Public Park to Elevate D.C.
Past Perfect
How Architecture Works
Loeb at First Sight
RIBA Urges Larger Homes
Material Guys
Washington Canal Park
Leaned in, Screwed Over
Trees Through the Lens
Don’t Forget the Burbs
Socially Yours
Cracking the Sarcophagus
Bing in the Burbs
Seven Is Enough
Against Work-Life Balance
Design Opportunities in India
Double Whammy
A New Morning in Washington
Domestic Dissonance
Brutalist Theater at Risk
Looming Large
Surface to Air
The Planning of Bournville
Unbuilt Washington
In the Shadows?
The Integrators
Trust Me, I’m a Fake Architect
The Bard of Muswell Hill
Letter From Helsinki
The Rise of the RN
Industrial Strength
