Lijiang, China as it used to be
One of the world’s most exquisite towns, now lost, captured on video the very year I first saw it
The future of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia
Gaudi’s eternally unfinished church may actually be nearing completion
Li Xiaodong’s modest, radical architecture
The New York Times misses why a small library in rural China represents a great hope for the country
New York City Illustrated, 1910
A century on, a tourist souvenir reveals the architectural wonders of a city long lost
A historic find on the Bowery
A friend may have found the 18th C Bull’s Head Tavern under a construction site on the Bowery
Why James Turrell is perfect for the Guggenheim
Turrell turns Wright’s building — already a work of art — into a new and different work of art
The new Le Monde d’Hermès looks at Inca stonemasonry
The Inca were an exceptionally advanced civilization yet, technologically, still in the Bronze Age
The last moment in history to see the tulou
The future is grim for China’s unique, centuries-old communal housing
Macau’s architectural legacy
A schizophrenic policy of sacrificing new land to preserve old buildings
Reading the Times on the architectural symbolism of Cairo
Much right and a few key things wrong about Tahrir Square in Cairo, the center of the revolution