Featured Articles (aka Fred’s Favorites)
In Racine, Wis., a climate-controlled structure of glass, steel and concrete offers a sweeping view of Lake Michigan -- and the future
The New York Times /
August 25, 2010
A house in Idaho by Tom Kundig lets nature lead
The New York Times /
January 7, 2009
It's no longer business as usual
Architect /
October 2019
The playa has a lot to teach us about city planning
Architect Magazine /
April 2008
In Bolinas, hooking up to H2O can cost more than $300,000
The New York Times /
October 9, 2005
Loving the Empire State Building in the Aftermath of 9/11
The New York Times /
October 11, 2001
When an "online lawyer" wrote my will
The New York Times /
May 16, 2002
A puppeteer loses his touch to Parkinson's Disease
The New York Times /
November 9, 2003
Am I hurting authors by selling my used books on Amazon?
The New York Times /
April 11, 2002
Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece is drooping
The New York Times /
March 11, 1999
A blueblood family hires Richard Neutra, with mixed results
The New York Times /
February 3, 2002
SOM hires experts to critique the work of its own architects
The New York Times /
September 29, 2002
Charleston's grandest houses are empty
The New York Times /
October 22, 2004
A profile of the crusading journalist (before he met Ed Snowden)
Out /
April 2011
How programs designed to help women landscape architects have helped, and hurt
Landscape Architecture /
June 2015
"Constituent Services" are a form of low-level corruption and a violation of Equal Protection
The New York Times /
September 9, 2012
A real estate developer tells how he purchases art, and why
Art Basel Magazine /
December 2014
Micro-cribs and mega-mansions grow further apart
The Huffington Post /
April 1, 2019
Gum on the sidewalks, black snow, empty plastic newsboxes, and more
Huffington Post /
September 17, 2006
Oliver Wainwright's look at the Hermit Kingdom's candy-colored architecture
Introspective (1stdibs) /
July 28, 2018
Diller Scofidio + Renfro leads an international team of designers in the shadow of the Kremlin
Blueprint /
October 2017
Their new building for Columbia Medical School caps decades of experimentation
Blueprint /
October 2016
My comments on the Unatanneh Tokef
Congregaton Kolot Chayeinu /
October 2016
A review of the World Trade Center "Transit Hub"
Blueprint /
July 2016
My thoughts about a on-line culture in which everything and everyone is rated. I don't mind the loss of privacy, but what about the loss of serendipity?
Metropolitan Home /
May 2016
Should the great landscape architect be recognized for more than his astounding parks and gardens?
Landscape Architecture /
April 2016
A temple to ethics at the United States Air Force Academy defaces a triumphantly modernist campus by SOM
Architectural Record /
January 2016
Can the law transition?
The Huffington Post /
June 16, 2015
The Empire State Building risks being obscured by lesser towers
The Huffington Post /
November 28, 2014
Architects learn to make the hard stuff soft
Interior Design /
November 2014
For architects who were born in the 1950s, it was a formative experience
Architectural Record /
May 2014
Why not give Calatrava a chance?
Architectural Record /
December 2013
My experience the day Obama was elected
fredbernstein.com /
November 5, 2008
Surviving the Holocaust with needle and thread
The New York Times /
August 8, 2008
A roundtable of experts on making existing houses greener
Metropolitan Home /
April 2008
Marion Mahony's contribution to the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright
The New York Times /
January 20, 2008
Mourning Phiippe Starck's Miracle on 44th Street
Interior Design /
September 2007
Gay activist David Mixner moves to Livingston Manor, New York
The New York Times /
July 17, 2007
An "alien pod" tries to land on West 15th Street
The New York Times /
June 22, 2007
The contractors are gone. So why do I feel blue?
The New York Times /
February 22, 2007
A transgender baker and a gay "straight guy" are roommates
The New York Times /
January 27, 2007