Architects

Kanye West’s wife and muse has become known for going out in very—very—little clothing. What does her nudity reveal, and what does it hide?

Max Rozenfeld has spent much of the war imagining how the destruction of Kharkiv presents opportunities for reinventing its future.

R. M. Schindler’s austere experiment in communal living is still an inspiration.

In Scandinavia, ecologically minded architects are building towers with pillars of pine and spruce.

The building was meant to weave the democratic spontaneity of street protests and town squares into the fabric of the city.

The Austrian-born designer perfected a signature Los Angeles look: houses that erase the boundary between inside and outside.

How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

When the British architect and his family got locked down in his parents’ homeland of Ghana, last year, he was inspired by their low-slung local village to create a structure that serves no practical purpose—an art work—now on display at the Gagosian gallery.

The architect Toshiko Mori, who just completed the first phase of the central branch’s redesign, lays out her vision of roof gardens and a terrace connecting the library to Mount Prospect Park and the Botanic Garden and Brooklyn Museum beyond.

The carpenter behind some of New York’s most elaborate—and expensive—homes.

Will the new LACMA building be Peter Zumthor’s masterpiece or a fiasco?

The designer of Central Park championed a coördinated federal response to the public-health emergency caused by the Civil War.

He wasn’t famous because he was a good architect among Asian-American architects. He was famous because he was a great architect who happened to be Asian-American. To a young immigrant from China, this decoupling of identity was exhilarating.

Walter Gropius founded the German design school a century ago, but his work, now antique, still feels ahead of its time.

Some of The New Yorker’s best architectural writing, collected from throughout the magazine’s history.

What a family’s story says about a city of romantic delusions and hazardous fortunes.

The Congolese artist’s imaginary cityscapes demand an oxymoron: daintily powerful, say, or deliriously serene.

A pair of architects with more than five hundred plastic lids under the bed.

The interior designer’s polychromatic dreamlands.