How to lure an architect onto the rocks.

My recent interview on Common Edge with Michael Monti of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) elicited a question from Michael Armstrong, CEO of the National Council of ...

“If we are really serious in promoting inclusion and opportunities to practice, we need to take a fresh look at everything.” “If we are really serious in promoting inclusion and opportunities to ...

Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe development shouldn’t be top-down and hidden from public scrutiny. Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe ...

We launched it in 2020 as a direct continuation of the 100 Resilient Cities Program and the broader resilience work of the Rockefeller Foundation. I joined the foundation in 2013, when Judith Rodin ...

It is fascinating to see attempts to use the ideas of Jane Jacobs to justify New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ City of Yes proposal. Even when her ideas are misapplied, the desire to embrace those ideas ...

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say: If it’s ...

Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to take a cue from the City of Lights’ embrace of the local. Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different ...

With the Paris Olympics still reverberating weeks after it concluded, I am reminded that this spectacle was likely enhanced by the Covid lockdowns—that the exuberance surrounding the Games could be ...

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All of our work at Common Edge is amplified by the unprecedented changes and challenges that we’re facing. For example, climate change is clearly upon us, impacting our weather, geography, food ...

It is beyond dispute that climate change is already affecting the weather, geography, food production, and human behavior in negative ways. Sadly, though, neither the federal nor the state governments ...