Learn how entry rituals in gated communities create perceptions of safety and control, redefining social life and belonging.

For American architecture, 2025 may be remembered for the deaths of icons Frank Gehry, Robert A. M. Stern and Ricardo Scofidio, a mastermind of New York’s High Line. More likely, however, it will go ...

With six suspects who may have committed the crime and nine rooms in which to perform the deed, the mystery game Clue has remained a popular—and legal—way to stage a murder. In 1985, this beloved ...

He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings, notably the spectacular Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, his masterpiece. Credit: Michael GisselereCredit... Supported by By Nicolai Ouroussoff ...

Which LEGO Architecture set is best? LEGO is known for its exciting, varied, and challenging builds, so it’s only natural that the enduring Danish toymaker offers a series of sets featuring famous ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

Today, on the first Monday of October, we celebrate World Architecture Day. This year, the International Union of Architects (UIA) has set the theme "Design for Strength," a powerful call to action ...

The x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) doesn't seem to be going anywhere. We've had people declaring the impending ascent of Arm or RISC-V for years now, and the market hasn't budged. By and large ...

When evaluating computer systems, it is tempting to focus only on the processor’s clock speed, which is typically reported in gigahertz (GHz), though some older processors and other devices operate in ...

The era of universal processor architectures is giving way to workload-specific designs optimized for performance, power, and scalability. As data-centric applications in artificial intelligence (AI), ...

A new technical paper titled “Augmenting Von Neumann’s Architecture for an Intelligent Future” was published by researchers at TU Munich and Pace University. “This work presents a novel computer ...

The rise of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) is accelerating the adoption of RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture that is reshaping the global semiconductor landscape. At the ...