A new public library, designed and built by Dallas architect Dan Shipley, should change that. Although it is not the kind of ...

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 ...

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

The past year saw an abundance of new books of interest to Canadian architects—many of them authored by Canadian designers.

This article was originally published on Common Edge. "O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power ...

Asplund, Entrance Pavilion, Stockholm Exhibition 1930: “A composition of houses, flags, floodlights, flowers, fireworks, happy people and clean table cloths...” (Aalto) (Drawing by Max Söderholm.

A century ago, a strange edifice arose at the foot of the Hollywood Hills, on Kings Road. It was a single-story structure of gray concrete walls and redwood ceilings, shorn of ornament. Before ...

You’ve seen them. Perhaps they’ve taken over your neighborhood, packing in cheek-by-jowl, straddling hillsides and squeezing out every square inch of space that zoning laws allow. They are modern box ...

The living room at Kepes Cottage, a 1946 design by Marcel Breuer for Gyorgy Kepes, which he later replicated for his own Breuer family cottage. (All images courtesy Monacelli Press) The sense that ...