Interior designers’ unique role in the sustainability movement is undeniable. Industry specialists offer their insight and advice.

Apply now — the competition deadline is January 30, 2009

The head of Getty’s new Department of Architecture and Design talks about the institute’s extensive collection and unrealized Southern California design.

Landscape architect Tom Oslund discusses the making of a memorial, his Zen time, and ecology vs. aesthetics.

Tokyo Designers Week showcased an abundance of global talent.

The author and architect sheds more light on public-interest architecture

Insight from an architect invovled in design activism

Solutia’s Ultron® carpet fibers has announced the winners of the Doc Award competition, an annual competition that honors outstanding achievement in the field of contract interior design and carpet product design, as well as Dr. Robert F. “Doc” Docherty, a pioneer in the contract interior design industry.

Watch video from the launch event of Expanding Architecture: Conversations on Design

Anticipating many of today’s environmental and workplace issues, the 41-year-old Ford Foundation Building, by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, remains a remarkably prescient piece of civic architecture.

Three and a half acres of transcendent minimalism make one corner of Sonoma County just a bit more Zen.

Marc Koehler builds a bulwark against troubled times in an Amsterdam suburb’s architectural theme park.

A Seattle awards program challenges the profession to rethink its values.

­Recent trips to Dubai and Shanghai have our columnist pondering how Jane Jacobs might react to these unbridled cities.

New textures, colors, and furnishings for idiosyncratic interiors

­Designers get back to basics with stripped-down objects and surfaces.

RKS Design molds a safe new material into a futuristic and functional drinking vessel.

A window system for obsessive minimalists offers sliding exterior walls without the unsightly floor track.

­A New Yorker’s minimalist landscape paintings draw on elemental forms of the built environment.

Bertjan Pot talks about his job, what he’s embarrassed about, and his Sellotape collection—using his thumbs.

Those individuals most in need of help arrive with an empty tank and a credit card in hand.