The Forum

Clem Labine's thoughts on Palladio Award insults.

Skyscrapers are threatening the beauty of the City of Light.

Recently many architects have begun to take note of remarkable new findings emerging from the field of neuroscience, the study of the brain and nervous system and how those react to stimuli. We are learning that this complex system has powerful perceptual capabilities, enabling us to be able to better protect and enhance our own well-being.

Most modern people (if they are not trained as modernist architects) have imbibed the idea that architectural consistency is the highest form of order. But what if the additions are ugly, falling down or inhospitable?

Urbanism needs statues. Some simply become old friends, but others shout and you listen.

Hear Robert Adam's thought on the constant tension in classical architecture between reproduction and invention.

Some thoughts on who are the real radicals in architecture.

A great deal is changing in the wider world and architecture is bound, eventually, to reflect this.

The debate continues. Paul Ranogajec responds to Carroll William Westfall's response to his original Forum that appeared in the June issue.

Adaptive reuse of churches is growing as more non-denominational churches pop up.

Dissecting the myth of the 20-acre rule for designing new churches.

Promoting traditional urbanism which is the refinement and passing down of successful solutions to the age-old challenges of living well.

Education is the most powerful weapon with which to challenge the entrenched architectural caste system. It'll take years. But it can be done.