A few weeks ago, in the seminar I teach on architecture and film, we screened The Fountainhead, the 1949 classic drawn from the book of the same title by Ayn Rand. Its protagonist, played with ramrod ...
It’s easy these days to think of California as a republic unto itself, declaring its political and cultural independence at every opportunity, zigging as Donald Trump’s America zags. But the state’s ...
From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...
The design of office buildings, museums, airports, train stations, and homes, can't always be revolutionary. In fact, much of architecture consists of those banal platitudes that are necessary for ...