HAIKU TRAFFIC SAFETY With ubiquity comes invisibility. And words can be arranged with the same economy and elegance as high quality graphic design. These two precepts are the inspiration behind the DOT’s latest spate of traffic signs. By combining a little bit of poetry with…

Last week at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a panel of six notable writers, editors, and curators spoke about...

In the past two weeks, a minor kerfuffle, the kind in which the Internet specializes, has erupted over the direction...

Every building, indeed every project of urban or landscape design, is a response to a multitude of questions, some intrinsic...

Landscape/architectural criticism today is often conservative and superficial. I attribute this to two main causes; the modern insecurity of the...

Sarah Slobin: So you’ve seen mapping go from pencil on paper to the digital, interactive versions we have today. Tell...

This year, Postopolis was a five-day event, where bloggers of the built environment came back out from behind their keyboards, convening in a real, live urban environment. For me, this trip out west was a follow up to the first Postopolis that...

Visual journalist Sarah Slobin talks to longtime Time Magazine cartographer Joe Lertola and looks at some examples from his body of work.

How should architecture criticism change? I say: more profiles, not fewer. When we write about architecture, yes, we should write...

One night recently I took my three-year-old daughter to Cypress Hills, Brooklyn for a Dept. of Ed. hearing in a...