Robert A.M. Stern’s books form the definitive history of New York’s architecture. Why doesn’t Chicago doesn’t have a similar ...

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 ...

Rendering of the proposed Lakhta Center in St Petersburg. Image Courtesy of www.proektvlahte.ru Architecture has always been the best way for ideologies to leave their stamp, and Russia is one of the ...

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 ...

Henry Boettcher was a corporate architect who designed structures and equipment for the former Armstrong Cork Co. He also designed homes around Lancaster, including ones for himself and an Armstrong ...

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 ...

Cathleen McGuigan: How do you see whiteness, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism shaping and operating in architecture, not only as a discipline and practice, but in the built environment? Louis ...

Greenhouses are elegant and ingenious structures that incorporate simplicity in design while creating light-filled spaces that shape indoor climates. With walls and roofs composed mainly of ...

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, ...