An independent journal of architecture. Essays on buildings, cities, and the people who shape them — history, criticism, and the ideas that still decide how we live.
A street decides more about a city than most of the buildings on it. A ceiling height changes how you think. A memorial asks a building to hold grief. Planum writes about all of it — the history, the arguments, the architects, and the decisions that quietly set the terms of how everyone lives.
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