Articles
Although I have focused almost exclusively on architecture in 15 years as a full-time journalist, I have also documented the way architecture interacts with some very important aspects of our lives. That’s why you’ll find categories below on design of the workplace, infrastructure, and the ways we use design to commemorate key events and loved ones. I have a particular expertise in the forces that shape urban places (see also my book-in-progress on the subject), and the role design plays in shaping and expressing each city’s unique identity.

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Commemoration and Memorialization
Scrap Arad’s Billion-Dollar Memorial
Bloomberg, May 2006
Who Owns Grief?
Architectural Record, July 2002
Crowding the Mall
The Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 1999
Art and Politics Vie: WWII Memorial
New York Times, July 1999
Visitor Center: A Capitol Dilema Involving Security
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 4, 1998
Speaking to a Tragic History: Jewish Museum Berlin
Architectural Record, January 1999
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American Urban Growth and Change
Blending Nature With Development: A New Land Stewarship Ethos Emerges
American Forests, Spring 2007
When Suburbs Become Megaburbs
Architectural Record, August 2003
Architecture's Place in an Era of Evolving Values
Architectural Record, March 2003
A True Believer Underwrites Innovative Development
Grid, July/August 2001
World City
Architectural Record, March 2002
Embattled 'Burbs
Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2000
America's Skewed Housing Priorities
Architectural Record, December 2000
The Forces Reshaping America's Cities
Architectural Record, March 2000
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Berlin Rebuilds
Have Architects Failed Berlin?
Architectural Record, March 2002
Foster's Psychologically Complex Reichstag
Architectural Record, July 1999
Schultes' Chancellery: Difficult Symbol
Architectural Record, May 2002
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Infrastructure, transportation
Bullet-Train Bailout
Architectural Record, January 2002
Port In a Storm
Grid, Spring 1999
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The Netherlands
The Shock of the New in Holland
Architectural Record, July 2000
New Housing Renews Dutch Docklands
Architectural Record, April 2001
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Design and the Workplace
Foster’s “Towering Innuendo” is a Big, Eco-Friendly Hit.
Architectural Record, June 2004
Stata Center: Gehry's San Gimignano for Science
Architectural Record, August 2004
Form Follows Fad
Excerpts from On the Job: Design and the American Office, Princeton Architectural Press, 2000
Power of the Pragmantic
Debis Revives the Skyscraper
Architectural Record, October 1998
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Contemporary Architecture
Can LEED Survive the Carbon Neutral Era?
Metropolis, November 2007,
Ariel: West Side’s Godzilla Condos
Bloomberg, March 29, 2007
Mayne’s Flower Power Federal Building
Bloomberg, March 2, 2007
Calder Rises High in Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park
Bloomberg, January 19, 2007
Height Is Not Atlantic Yards
Bloomberg, November 16, 2006
Libeskind’s Art Museum Crash-Lands in Denver
Bloomberg, September 21, 2006
Scrap Arad’s Billion-Dollar Memorial
Bloomberg, May 2006
Hostilities Halt Beirut’s Forgiveness Garden
Bloomberg, August 17, 2006
Nouvel Conjures a Dream Factory for Guthrie Theater
Bloomberg, June 20, 2006
Jane Jacobs’ Lesson: Look and Learn
Bloomberg, April 27, 2006
Prime Time Arrives for MoMA’s Mysterious Yoshio Taniguchi
Bloomberg, November 15, 2004
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Conserving Everyone’s Energy But His Own
The New York Times, November 23, 2003
Disney Hall: The Making of a Masterpiece
Architectural Record, November 2003
Sound Good To You? The Art of Acoustics
Architectural Record, October 2002
Plop Urbanism: Imperial War Museum North
Architectural Record, October 2002
Heroically Intricate: Austrian Cultural Forum
Architectural Record, August 2002
The Object of Desire in the Holy of Holies: Gehry's DG Bank
Architectural Record, October 2001
Bringing Substance to Light: Holl's Het Oostem
Architectural Record, October 2000
Jaw-Dropping Tour de Force: Gehry's Experience Music Project
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29, 2000
Passport to the Universe: Polshek's Planetarium
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 10, 2000
Landscape Urbanism: Not a Contradiction
Architectural Record, August 2001
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