Design in architecture and urbanism is guided by two distinct complementary languages: a pattern language, and a form language. The pattern language contains rules for how human beings interact ...

During early design investigation, it was learned that the site of West Main was once home to a small watercourse—Meydenbauer Creek—that traversed the hillside site as it meandered to its final outlet ...

The pattern language calls for architectural features such as sheltering roofs and small window panes, while Modernist design favors flat roofs and large sheets of glass.

Architectural form languages survive because they often acquire non-architectural meaning, ... (A pattern language, however, cannot be invented: it has to be discovered).

I was reading a book review the other day — an essay on poetry, by Elisa Gabbert, as it happens — and came across the name of someone I once knew, a fabulously eccentric cult figure of the old ...

“The Architecture of Happiness” by Alain de Botton Pantheon, 280 pp., $25. Subtle insights, presented with playful precision — that’s what London author Alain de Botton reliably provides ...