The less that speculative fiction has to speculate, the more disturbing it can be. Space invaders are less immediately worrisome than a world that has outlawed cars, for instance. Or where a housing ...

Raphael’s fresco “The School of Athens” in the Vatican is among the most famous images in art history. Part of what makes it so striking is the barrel vault towering over the figures. In creating this ...

The critic Paul Goldberger, voicing a sentiment many know intuitively to be true but have perhaps never articulated, described architecture as “the only art that we have no choice but to engage with.” ...