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

In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...

Let’s be honest—many of today’s skylines are about as exciting as a bowl of plain oatmeal. Endless rows of glass boxes and concrete rectangles that make you wonder if architects collectively lost ...

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 ...

Spokane's skyline boasts three iconic buildings. The Pavilion. Gifted to the city by the United States government in preparation for Expo '74, the cable structure is unlike any other in Spokane. The ...

The Aluminaire House drew crowds, and ridicule, in 1931. After several moves and a brush with demolition, it has found a home in Southern California. By Jori Finkel Reporting from Palm Springs, Calif.

How did modern architecture develop to its present state? Three new monographs trace that path, even if they don’t cover every direction the field has taken over the last century. Mies van der Rohe: ...

How strange it must have been for Moby to spend a decade making electronic music that moved dance floors globally, then punk rock that was met with revulsion, then an album that resonated so strongly ...

Frank Gehry (96), the master of modern architecture who transformed skylines worldwide with his radical aesthetics, passed ...

The Astrodome, Lloyd, Morgan and Jones and Wilson, Morris, Crain and Anderson architects, Houston, 1965. Photo by Ben Koush from the "Home Heat Money God" (UT Press, 2024). Ben Koush / UT Press “I am ...