In light of the interest in my recent story about George Ingham Barnett, I thought it might be worthwhile to look into the sort of education a young architect such as he would have received back in ...

For most of the history of architecture, interesting facades were achieved through materiality or ornamentation. From the elaborately painted friezes of the Parthenon to the glass exteriors of modern ...

In 1976, when Aldo Rossi added an introductory essay to the Italian edition of Étienne-Louis Boullée’s Architecture, Essay on Art, he quoted Denis Diderot. Commenting on the siting of Place Louis XV ...

To many architects and historians, Rosario Candela remains an unknown name. Little was written about him during the interwar years when he was most active, yet the Italian-born architect designed many ...

Facades are the living skin of a building—dynamic, expressive and deeply connected to their surroundings. More than mere envelopes, facades serve as thoughtful interfaces that balance privacy, ...