Geoff Manaugh

Burglary borrows equally from the skill sets of a technical science and theatrical improv; it follows careful rules yet just as...

If a family’s home is their castle, as the saying goes, some homeowners have begun to take that sentiment quite literally.

Hidden among the many benefits of a Smart Home are subtle vulnerabilities that today’s security researchers are just beginning to...

The burglars’ tools of tomorrow will look more like robots and radios than lockpicks and crowbars. A security expert weighs in.

Amidst the pedestrian-friendly maze of leafy streets in New York City’s West Village, LOT-EK, a firm whose designs focus on the...

"This isn’t a question of cost: It’s a question of design. Design is how you solve the climate-change problem."

One of the oldest cities in the United States and home to the country’s first International Style skyscraper, Philadelphia is,...

It has been nearly half a decade, but the Dwell Home II is back! Construction began this winter in the hills outside Los Angeles,...

The architecture of Richard Rogers weds the best of high-tech design with the outer limits of the architect’s imagination,...

This brilliant new table, called A New Perspective, by James Tooze of England's Batch, combines graphic design and carpentry to...

When Architect Qingyun Ma became dean of architecture at the University of Southern California in January 2007, he came to the...

A special bootleg version of Volume magazine will be available at the opening of Urban China: Informal Cities, an exhibition that...

Video games are an often-overlooked realm of architectural ideas and spatial design—the buildings and landscapes through which...

There seems to be no end to the superlatives being used to describe cities in China: the buildings there are the biggest, the...

I'm writing this a few hours away from the opening of Viennese architect Susanne Zottl's new exhibition at SCI-Arc, A Styrofoam...

When it comes to material originality, this former tavern in Chicago’s trendy Bucktown neighborhood pulls out all the stops.

The Lighthouse, by British architects Sheppard Robson, seeks to redefine the future of residential energy by plugging into the...

Though Los Angeles offers Lindsay Lohan sightings at Pinkberry and addresses on L.Ron Hubbard Way, Dwell explores a different...

President Obama is an urban president.

Renderings of a new storage facility for the British Library have been released.

New York-based designer Sherwood Forlee, through Quirk Books, has produced the Walls Notebook, where everything you write is an...

On a small granite outcrop in Canada’s windswept Georgian Bay, an architect couple build a humble getaway more than eight miles...

As the everyday circumstances of urban life continue to change—whether due to tools like GPS-enabled cell phones or to high-tech...

The Garden Museum in London has re-opened—and rebranded—after a short and surprisingly affordable modern makeover by the talented...

Prince Charles, long an advocate of sustainability in architecture—including the use of natural building materials and the...

Paul Virilio's classic book of wartime architectural history, Bunker Archeology, is finally back in print with a fantastic new...

The Rome-based design firm Tokidoki—Japanese for "sometimes"—produces high-concept toys for adults and kids both, including my...

British architects Foster + Partners have revealed their "expansive" new design for the Yale School of Management in New Haven,...

John Briscella, a Philadelphian now earning his Masters in "Urban Strategies" in Vienna—surely one of the most interesting degree...

For any Chicago-based Dwell readers looking for something to do this Saturday, November 8, I'm pleased to say that I'll be...

The Idler's Glossary by Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell, designed and illustrated by Seth, came out this month from Biblioasis.

Dubai, that instant city of over-wrought architecture and slave-like laborers, is apparently on the verge of a sewage catastrophe.

I'll be heading to Reno later this week to speak at the upcoming Art + Environment Conference hosted by the Nevada Museum of Art,...