Modern architecture, emerging in the 1930s and thriving through the 1970s, revolutionized building design by focusing on functionality and human living rather than ornamental beauty. As ...

In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of ...

It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...

In 1993 a young professional couple with two toddlers and a large suburban lot in Naarden, a town less than half an hour's drive southeast of Amsterdam, approached Ben van Berkel to design an unusual ...

Architect and writer Pierluigi Serraino, AIA, takes readers on a stroll through Modern gardens in this forthcoming survey, which aims to shed light on the overlooked landscapes that surround so many ...

Amidst the backdrop of pale yellow, pastel orange, celadon and lavender Charleston single houses and traditional buildings, it’s not too hard to find a few places that look a little different. You ...

1. The Emperor's New Paint -- 2. The Fashion Police -- 3. Scratching the Surface -- 4. Redressing Architecture -- 5. The Antifashion Fashion -- 6. White Lies -- 7. Deep Skin -- 8. Machine-Age ...

Why the beauty and inventiveness of contemporary masonry in Iran has captured Western audiences. The United States expends untold amounts of money and human capital to keep its citizens uninformed ...