I loathe "starchitecture" and think that 99% of modernism has been a tragic mistake. OK, I'm a complete reactionary. Why aren't you?
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The Euro wing of the New Urbanist movement
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A smart and dedicated small-is-beautiful thinker from Berkeley
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A visionary theorist and architect -- one of the great culture-figures of our era, as far as I'm concerned. Many people have found that his theorizing is brain-opening in non-architecture ways too.
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Provocateur and firebrand, James Howard Kunstler writes some of the most enjoyable and enlightening prose around about buildings, towns, and spaces
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An organization devoted to traditional building, and sponsored by the Prince of Wales -- that's a high recommendation in my book
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Down-to-earth, ornery-but-appreciative: Jacobs' view of cities as ecosystems operating on many levels is a great one, and has been very influential, though to my mind not yet influential enough.
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A topflight New Urbanist architect and writer, John's also a fearless and entertaining blogger
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Architect Lucien Steil's beautiful online magazine. Much here to explore.
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Katie is a New England architect whose quiet and clear traditional designs I really love. She's also a wonderful photographer and blogger.
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Learn a bit about this eccentric and very influential genius
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A professor at Bluffton University who takes photos of eminent architectural sites, emphasizing how these buildings really look, not how they're meant to look. A real treasure trove -- over 14,000 images!
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A mathematician who has worked with Christopher Alexander, Salingaros is an urbane, incisive, and brilliant heterodox architecture theorist
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Why not create public spaces that work?
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The conservative British philosopher is also a great writer on architecture
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House organ of the New Urbanist movement
