Nation Topics - Architecture | The Nation

In defiance of its mission to preserve important works, the Museum of Modern Art has decided to raze the Folk Art building.

In Israel, an architectural competition and its winner have been sabotaged by the bad faith of its sponsors.

The current renovation plan is too costly and will ruin the landmark 42nd Street building. A reasonable compromise is still on the table.

How an architecture critic made New York City her touchstone for discussions of public space.

The World Trade Center paved over a patchwork of industrial docks and community businesses to become a planned community catering to high finance.

How the World Trade Center turned Manhattan into a planned community.

There's more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses.
 

Across the border from San Diego in Tijuana, a spontaneous urban space is taking shape off the radar of city planners, as an affluent city sheds its aging houses and its pieces are reassembled into creative dwellings for the poor.

Taking stock of the new New Museum.

A retrospective exhibition of Martin Puryear's sculptures reinvents MoMA's signature atrium space as a site for spiritual longing.