Editorial
Transportation: The Little Engine That Might
Years after three states noisily rejected billions of dollars in federal funds for high-speed rail, construction on high-speed and other new rail projects is quietly proceeding elsewhere. Read more
AIAvoices
The Design Strategist: Evelyn Lee
A 2014 Young Architects Award winner, Lee is part of a team at MKThink and sees what she does as "architecture plus." Read more
AIAnow
Across the Institute: In Baltimore, Delft, Houston, New Haven, and New York
Upcoming events to participate in at or around these cities: Baltimore, Delft, Houston, New Haven, and New York. Read more
AIAfuture
Remote Control: Finding Social Media Success
How to judge all that data you collect to come up with the right metrics for your firm's social media success. Read more
AIAfeature
Designs On Health: New Research Reveals the Link Between Design and Public Health
New research from the AIA, AIAF, and the ACSA advances design and public health's alignment. Read more
AIAperspective
From the Desk of the AIA President: Capital Shares
Social media is important, but let's remember the importance of personal interaction. Read more
best practices
Best Practices: Revamp Your Firms' Website
Architects' sites tend to suffer from the same set of problems. Here's a guide to avoiding those mistakes and ensuring that your practice puts its best face forward online. Read more
up and running
Up and Running: Be Smart in How You Staff
An architecture firm is only as good as its people. Here are a few tips for attracting—and retaining—the best in the business. Read more
next progressives
Next Progressives: KEM Studio Blends Disciplines
A healthy dose of cross-pollination between industrial design and architecture allows the Kansas City, Mo., firm to focus on the details. Read more
Innovative Detail
Innovative Detail: Mark Thomas Architects Gives Visitors a Bird's Eye View of Cape Town
The Kirstenbosch Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway takes visitors up, through, and over a national botanical garden and arboretum. Read more
Products
2014 Holiday Gift Guide: Five Designers Pick Presents for Your Project Team
Show your project team gratitude for their work with these creative gadgets and goods. Read more
historic renovation
Towering Expectations: An In-Depth Look at the Eiffel Tower's Latest Update
To relieve the long queues to the tower’s pinnacle, Paris architecture studio Moatti-Rivière renovated the landmark’s first floor to encourage visitors to linger. What first floor, you ask? Read more
past progressives
Past Progressives, 1979: Arcosanti's East Crescent Complex
The East Crescent addition to Paolo Soleri's Acrosanti complex won guarded praise from energy-conscious P/A Award jurors. Read more
Tula House, Designed by Patkau Architects
The Vancouver-based firm brings steel, concrete, and rigorous lines to a house on a windswept cliffside site on Quadra Island in British Columbia. Read more
Jesuit High School Chapel, Designed by Hodgetts + Fung
Hodgetts + Fung principals Hsinming Fung and Craig Hodgetts bring a hands-on approach to the design of a chapel on a catholic high school campus in Carmichael, Calif. Read more
Tour Carpe Diem, Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects
The New York-based architects have created a light-footed tower in La Défense, one of the most maligned modernist enclaves in Paris. Read more
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, designed by John Wardle Architects and NADAAA in collaboration
For the University of Melbourne’s design school in Australia, the two architecture firms have created a new building that wears pedagogy on its well-appointed sleeve. Read more