Danish architect, Jan Gehl’s "Cities for People," (2010) explores improving designs of cities for people to live and work. In this follow-up to "Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space" (1971), Gehl explores the shift...

Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo. Voltaire. Isaac Newton. These are some of the great thinkers that probably come to mind when you think of the Renaissance. But for some of us more versed in the history of the time, archi...

The world has begun to feel the effects of climate change. In America, hurricanes like Superstorm Sandy and Katrina, and more recent hurricanes Irma and Harvey, have brought urban areas to their knees; killing people, de...

In his book "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City," author Greg Grandin chronicles Henry Ford’s great attempt to create a vast rubber plantation and idyllic company town in the complex ecos...

The BLDGBLOG Book by Geoff Manaugh introduces us to speculation about future architecture and how the present built environment will eventually change. From the first page of the book, the reader gets an idea of what...

Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG book attempts to frame the world as consisting of architecture, resultant of design choices, as legible texts similar to a work of literary fiction, and perhaps most importantly, open to the poss...

The BLDGBLOG Book offers readers an exciting and unpredictable exploration of architecture in the broadest of contexts. Uninhibited by constraints, author Geoff Manaugh follows his line of interests wherever they may lea...

Museums have become a hallmark topic in the teaching of architecture, as many architecture schools tend to include several museum projects in their design studio curricula, and that shouldn’t surprise anyone since we liv...

With the rising popularity of critical writing and blogging on various topics of interest, more writers are finding digital mediums to be a more effective way to reach a broad spectrum of audiences. More specifically, wh...