The rise of boring architecture -- and the ca...

Remember those fun high school superlatives like the “Class Clown” or the “Biggest Flirt”? In this special How to Be a Better Human season finale, you will be hearing from our previous guest Dallas Youth Poet Laureate Naisha Randhar and our team of editors, marketers, producers, ...  Show more

Regret is one of our most powerful emotions -- and also one of the most misunderstood. Over the past two years, author Daniel H. Pink has collected a trove of more than 16,000 regrets from people in 105 countries in an effort to better understand this mysterious emotion. He share ...  Show more

How might we navigate and negotiate the skins of the Earth in the face of climate change? What can Byzantine architecture and Plato's Khôra teach us about urban living in the 21st Century? What is the role of the architect in current cultural production? This week, we have a fasc ...  Show more

Jean-Louis Cohen Architecture et forme urbaine Collège de France Année 2020 - 2021 Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanité Depuis l’Antiquité, les villes n’ont cessé d’échanger leurs formes, dans un mouvement incessant qui a vu les dispositifs de Rome, de ...  Show more

We used to care about beautiful architecture. 

Luckily, Thomas Heatherwick still does. He is on a quest to make the world less boring.

You may not know Thomas yet, but you know his work.  He's designed iconic buildings and experiences and he says our cities have be ...

Jean-Louis CohenArchitecture et forme urbaineCollège de FranceAnnée 2020 - 2021Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanitéDepuis l'Antiquité, les villes n'ont cessé d'échanger leurs formes, dans un mouvement incessant qui a vu les dispositifs de Rome, de Veni ...  Show more