Architecture

Time is frozen here.

Meet the 2022 fellows in a program to empower new and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities.

Vito Battista’s journey from public architecture to right-wing politics is an echo of New York’s own cyclical, reactionary tides — and a reminder of how closely the city's politics are tied to the fate of its urban fabric.

In an unlikely design magazine, New Jersey’s thickly settled geography provides a guide to divining the metropolis of the future.

A fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities.

Designed for other uses and users, Corona Plaza has become a critical infrastructure for streetside selling. In the face of economic and legal pressures, vendors are organizing themselves and the space to ensure both individual survival and collective prosperity.

This building is fast.

Public space may be essential to urban life, but its benefits are far from universally enjoyed. Could a municipal Department of Care bring context-sensitive design and services to every corner of the city?

The geography of methadone treatment in New York City follows familiar patterns of discrimination, while clinics subject patients to punishment, not rehabilitation. Does this one kind of medicine need its own space in the first place?

In Western Queens, activists see a waterfront warehouse as an opportunity to broaden the horizons of a community's control over its own future.