Citizen Jane features interviews with Alex Garvin, Paul Goldberger and Michael Sorkin on the fight for the right to the city.
Posted — April 3, 2017
Richard Dattner, Steven Holl, Annabelle Selldorf, Weston Walker and Claire Weisz's work is featured in an essay about the renaissance of public architecture.
Posted — April 1, 2017
Keiko Tsuruta-Cramer took part in a public meeting about redesigning Portland's Congress Square into a vibrant urban gathering spot.
Posted — April 1, 2017
Paul Goldberger won a 2017 Architecture Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters for his exploration of ideas in architecture.
Posted — April 1, 2017
Nancy Owens is working on the renovation of Astoria Park, which includes essential infrastructure maintenance, such as erosion control and fixing the drainage system.
Posted — March 30, 2017
Susan Chin details the list of initial ideas to develop a rich artistic and cultural community in Staten Island's North Shore.
Posted — March 30, 2017
Blake Middleton believes The House at Cornell Tech can transform how we design for resiliency and sustainability.
Posted — March 21, 2017
Stefan Al's latest book traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.
Posted — March 20, 2017
Deborah Berke sits down with comedian Michael Ian Black for a conversation about the role of architecture in everyday life.
Posted — March 19, 2017
Howard Husock argues that the CPB is superfluous with for-profit media now offering ethnically and ideologically diverse programming.
Posted — March 18, 2017
Sam Schwartz details the installment of a ramp connecting LaGuardia Airport to Grand Central Parkway to relieve congestion.
Posted — March 17, 2017
Stefan Al details how the urban mall is having profound consequences on our conceptions of the city and public space.
Posted — March 16, 2017
Mary Margaret Jones is revitalizing Penn's Landing by connecting Center City to the river and activating the water's edge.
Posted — March 16, 2017
James Corner has been selected to improve the accessibility and to preserve the historical elements of the C&O Canal.
Posted — March 16, 2017
Jeff Shumaker joins Kohn Pederson Fox after working for a decade at DCP.
Posted — March 15, 2017
Tom Wright and Polly Trottenberg speak about the upsurge of ride-hailing apps, and the consequences of these new services for city life.
Posted — March 8, 2017
Michael Van Valkenburg details his master plan for Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Posted — March 6, 2017
Lord Norman Foster envisions airports designed for more a human and relaxing experience.
Posted — March 2, 2017
Navid Maqami details designing Empire Stores to be resilient and accessible.
Posted — March 2, 2017
Jack Robbins says that after 100 years of the same debates and issues, maybe it is time to consider rebuilding our zoning code.
Posted — March 2, 2017
Charles Waldheim's Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory is shortlisted for the 2017 National Urban Design Book Award.
Posted — February 28, 2017
Howard Husock speaks about the origins of federal housing subsidies, their deleterious effects, and how private markets can provide housing to low-income individuals.
Posted — February 27, 2017
Polly Trottenberg recommits to shore up bus services in NYC as ridership is on the decline.
Posted — February 24, 2017
Armando Carbonell and Susannah Drake articulate the need for a national green infrastructure program.
Posted — February 24, 2017
Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich are designing two environmentally efficient art galleries in the Lower East Side.
Posted — February 23, 2017
Vishaan Chakrabarti and Mark Gardner speak about challenges to racial representation in the architecture industry.
Posted — February 22, 2017
Davis Brody Bond and RAL Companies release renderings for Union Square Tech Hub.
Posted — February 20, 2017
WXY will design the "Made in NY Campus" in Sunset Park as part of the city's larger effort to support the film and fashion industries.
Posted — February 15, 2017
Mark Willis analyzed the impact of the changes from the suspended 421-a program to the 2017 proposed program.
Posted — February 10, 2017
Sylvia Smith unveils designs for the master plan of Pace University's lower Manhattan campus expansion
Posted — February 9, 2017
Adrian Benepe promotes QueensWay as a catalyst for economic and civic growth.
Posted — February 8, 2017
Tim Tompkins and Polly Trottenberg speak about cleaning and maintaining NYC as more residents and tourists lead to more trash.
Posted — February 6, 2017
Mark Willis argues that the 421-a tax exemption for developers is necessary to provide affordable housing.
Posted — January 27, 2017
Henry Grabar scrutinizes President Trump's executive order - reinstating Secure Communities and 287(g) agreements - as threats against Sanctuary Cities.
Posted — January 26, 2017
Juliette Michaelson and Tom Wright from RPA, with Guy Nordenson and Paul Lewis of Princeton University, are hosting a design competition to transform four corridor geographies within the NY-metro region.
Posted — January 26, 2017
Tucker Reed announced the founding of Totem, a real estate development company that will also venture with media and public space tech companies.
Posted — January 18, 2017
Justin Davidson reviews the redesign of Astor Place by Fellow Claire Weisz as a "distinguished" and "self-effacing" design providing a profusion of possibilities for pedestrians.
Posted — January 11, 2017
Francine Houben's transformation of the Palace Soestdijk Estate into an experimental garden will offer an educative journey about the earth's fragility for all its visitors.
Posted — January 11, 2017
Claire Weisz is designing a former Bronx juvenile prison site into a "permeable and open" affordable housing community.
Posted — January 5, 2017
Elliott Maltby and Gita Nandan from Thread Collective offer a field guide to fences throughout New York City to show how the barriers we use define our spaces and ourselves, from the mundane to the maddening.
Posted — January 4, 2017
Forum Board Members Paul Goldberger and Michael Sorkin recount their history with and the merits of Trump Tower in an interview with Jim O'Grady from WNYC.
Posted — January 4, 2017
Louise Carroll, Class of 2016 Fellow, is a proponent of affordable housing in NYC with her work on the Inclusionary Housing Program at HPD.
Posted — January 4, 2017
Eric Fang, Class of 2016 Fellow, helped design Arverne by the Sea, the largest urban waterfront renewal site in the United States.
Posted — January 2, 2017
Diana Chapin, Class of 2016 Fellow, is safeguarding buildings that represent NYC's architectural, cultural, and political history.
Posted — December 28, 2016
Richard Anderson reflects on his accomplishments since taking over the NYBC in 1994.
Posted — December 28, 2016
Anabelle Selldorf details her work on a collaborative master plan in Taiwan initiated by Fellow Calvin Tsao.
Posted — December 22, 2016
Fellow Adam Lubinsky envisages residential-based EV car sharing as the catalyst for widespread EV usage in NYC.
Posted — December 22, 2016
Fellow Polly Trottenberg unveiled the Chrystie Street protected bike lane, allowing riders to bike from Downtown Brooklyn across the Manhattan Bridge.
Posted — December 22, 2016
Fellow Michael Kwartler elucidates why blocks and intersections receive different amounts of sunlight throughout New York City for the New York Times.
Posted — December 22, 2016
John Clifford, Class of 2016 Fellow, is the lead architect for Industry City, a 35-acre 'innovation ecosystem' and creative space.
Posted — December 21, 2016
Purnima Kapur, Class of 2016 Fellow and Executive Director of the DCP, is instrumental in implementing the Mayor's MIH plan to increase affordable housing in NYC.
Posted — December 20, 2016
Fellow Frederick Steiner envisions an amplified sanctuary city concept to include learning, health, safety, inclusion, and environmental quality.
Posted — December 19, 2016
Lucrecia Montemayor contributed to an RPA report examining the threats to the Tri-State area by coastal flooding.
Posted — December 17, 2016
Stefan Al investigates Hong Kong's vertical urbanism with "expresscalators" crisscrossing mesmerizing atriums, raising questions about architecture, city planning, culture and urban life.
Posted — December 16, 2016
Matthew Lasner's latest book, Affordable Housing in New York, receives laudatory comments for its humanistic history of NYC's below-market housing.
Posted — December 15, 2016
Milton Puryear is advancing the development of the Brooklyn Greenway, a 14 mile route connecting neighborhoods parks along the Brooklyn waterfront.
Posted — December 14, 2016
Stephen Whitehouse is transforming New Jersey's Southwest Block 12 from a parking lot into a resilient urban park with storm-water storage.
Posted — December 13, 2016
Mark Lamster writes a letter illustrating the litany of issues Ben Carson confronts as HUD Secretary.
Posted — December 12, 2016
Sam Schwartz devised the Brooklyn-Queens Connector - a much-needed connection for city commuters.
Posted — December 12, 2016
Kai-Uwe Bergman details BIG U - the second phase of the City's LMCR project.
Posted — December 10, 2016
Carlos Arnaiz develops the first BRT system in the Philippines.
Posted — December 9, 2016
Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown conceptualized the Living Room - a new vision for communal development in China.
Posted — December 8, 2016
Adam Lubinsky facilitated the development of the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, a local effort to preserve affordable housing stock, open space, and the community's cultural heritage.
Posted — December 7, 2016
Navid Maqami of S9ARCHITECTURE leads the construction of The New York Wheel, the key to attracting tourists to Staten Island.
Posted — December 6, 2016
Francine Houben is redesigning NYPL's Schwarzman Building, which will serve as both a model and catalyst for a rejuvenated library system.
Posted — December 5, 2016
Gita Nandan & Elliott Maltby develop NYC's first community farm on NYCHA property.
Posted — December 2, 2016
Jack Robbins imagines a tram line linking NYC's five boroughs and New Jersey to spur growth and development.
Posted — December 1, 2016
Matt Chaban explores several new buildings in New York City, featuring projects and reflections from many of our Fellows.
Posted — November 28, 2016
Susannah Drake discusses Sponge Park, a pilot project in Gowanus Canal that uses mostly woody plants to reduce pollution levels.
Posted — November 11, 2016
Carlos Arnaiz releases plans for a hybrid hospital and trauma center in rural Baler, giving healthcare access to individuals from remote areas in the Philippines.
Posted — November 11, 2016
Thom Mayne offers a densification strategy to absorb new citizens in Los Angles in the face of climate change and resource scarcity.
Posted — November 10, 2016
Ken Greenberg says that poor street design, not rain, is causing the increase in pedestrian injuries in Toronto.
Posted — November 10, 2016
Justin Garrett Moore believes the Presidential Election reveals the need to design for the "revolutionary act of knowing others."
Posted — November 10, 2016
Deborah Berke, Winka Dubbeldam and Cathleen McGuigan highlight key issues facing women in architecture.
Posted — November 10, 2016
Tom Wright argues that the most overlooked benefit to the BQX is resiliency.
Posted — October 31, 2016
Henry Grabar questions our faith in automated vehicles as a panacea for our urban problems.
Posted — October 26, 2016
Annabelle Selldorf details her vision for the renovation of the Frick Collection.
Posted — October 20, 2016
Howard Husock writes that the city must build supermarkets on NYCHA sites in order to ensure the health and safety of its residents.
Posted — October 17, 2016
Janette Sadik-Khan proposes how Cleveland should learn from New York City by repurposing its streets for people, not cars.
Posted — October 13, 2016
Arun Sundararajan discusses how employment contracts and relations are changing with the growth of the sharing economy.
Posted — October 12, 2016
Richard Sennett explores new problems for consumers in an age of the sharing economy and the internet.
Posted — October 11, 2016
Gregory Haley explores the redesigning of Brooklyn's Industry City and how it supports innovation and the innovation economy.
Posted — October 11, 2016
Henry Grabar questions whether the Moynihan Train Hall and the Port Authority Bus Terminal elevate grandeur over improved transportation.
Posted — October 11, 2016
Martin Filler celebrates Alexander Gorlin's Boston Road Supportive Housing project, a lively affordable housing development in the South Bronx, as an encouraging model to confront homelessness in New York City.
Posted — October 5, 2016
