Grounding studio assignments in historical and current cultural issues is the best way to foster empathy in students.

Gehl famously defined the placemaking approach to urban planning thusly: “First people, then places, then buildings—the other way around never works.” From this simple premise, placemakers have been ...

The Benedictine monk and sometime architect Hans van der Laan (1904–1991) is hardly a household name outside his native Holland. Architect Tiziana Proietti and her theologian co-author, Kees den ...

A new book on the Dutch monk-architect tries to explain it all.