From modest community-built wading pools to expansive coastal attractions, the architect explores the history and ecological potential of saltwater sanctuaries.

Forum: As proposals expand in scale and scope, and public spending increases, large-scale pro sports developments fall flat as gestures of urban goodwill.

Ranging from a multifaceted treatise on design by Jeanne Gang to a posthumously published autobiography by Antoine Predock, this selection of books sheds new light on architectural practice.

Both on view through next winter, the new shows pick up on different strains of location-specific Modernism to ponder what could be or what might have been.

Memorials and museums are moving from confrontation to comfort, diluting the past's potency.

Expansive and unprogrammed indoor public spaces offer an antidote to the commercialization of contemporary cities.

Throughout the U.S., cities are revitalizing their aging Beaux-Arts and Midcentury Modern civic centers through community-driven design.

On view through early August, the show spotlights nature-infused architectural works by Studio Gang, MAD Architects, and J. MAYER H. alongside design objects, fashion, and more. 

Forum: Reforming U.S. building codes to permit single-stair apartment buildings would facilitate cost-effective and higher-density housing.

Architect Eric Höweler reviews a new book by Amanda Reeser Lawrence that challenges architecture's pervasive myth of solitary genius.