NASA is famously risk-averse, taking cautious approaches because billions of taxpayer dollars are at stake and each failure receives far more political attention than their many successes. So while ...

Trial and error. On a napkin, on tracing paper, or on a black CAD background, much of an architect's work is to make and redo lines, shapes, objects, and images ...

Pick a building on the horizon—any building will do—and consider for a moment how it came to be. Long before construction began, there was an architect and a blueprint. The blueprint bore a design ...