In an extraordinary space Here is your charge: Select the most beautiful piece of architecture, monument, or structure built in Boston in the past decade. Feature Nov 06, 2017
An idyll to the King I first visited Graceland, Elvis Presley’s famed estate in Memphis, Tennessee, for the reason I suspect many people go to NASCAR events and hockey games and probably Graceland itself: I wanted carnage. Feature Nov 06, 2017
Upon the rising stairs As an artist, I came of age fully indoctrinated in the belief in the subjectivity of beauty. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” was a familiar concept, entrenched in our culture’s consciousness. Feature Nov 06, 2017
Informed sources In 1969, in a nation divided over war and fearing the consequences of mechanization, R. Buckminster Fuller published Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity. Feature Nov 06, 2017
Beauty is a beast Mark Pasnik AIA interviews the author of On Beauty and Being Just Feature Nov 06, 2017
Déjà Bru The Milan-based photographer Roberto Conte once remarked on the “persistent repetition of patterns” he noticed as a peculiar and interesting feature of Brutalist designs. Gallery Nov 06, 2017
Eye of the beholder Here’s what I’ve long suspected: Our education and experiences as architects have left us out of touch with what the general public thinks about architecture. Feature Nov 06, 2017
Research: Toward an ideal Turning points (Part 1 of 10) The divide between architecture school and practice is well known. Feature Mar 01, 2017