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Over the last few decades, a rich and increasingly diverse practice has emerged in the art world that invites the public to touch, enter, and experience the work, whether it ...

Architects James Estes and Peter Twombly have described their nearly two decades of work as "quiet modernism." Their Rhode Island-based firm, Estes/Twombly Architects, builds modestly sized and geometrically precise houses ...

One of the most interesting questions in architectural history is why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United States, whose techniques of mass ...

Rising stars in Boston's design scene, architects Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon have in a single decade developed a reputation for radical experiments in architectural form. Their design methodology'what ...

Every year, a bevy of new phones, games, televisions, and electronic reading devices ride into our lives on a tidal wave of interactive hype. These i-products, while handy, primarily confine ...

Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on ...

Peter Rose has built on every scale during the first three decades of his practice. Highprofile projects, such as his master plan for the Montreal waterfront and his award-winning Canadian ...

Engineered Transparency" presents a portfolio of projects featuring cutting-edge glass designs by todays most innovative architects, including SANAAs acclaimed Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, Yoshio Taniguchis MoMA ...

Resonance is the tenth in an annual series of publications that features the best young practicing architects as selected by the Architectural League of New York in their annual Young ...

In 1955, just as the world was pigeonholing him as the high priest of modernism, Le Corbusier shocked the architecture world with - of all things - weekend houses. Built ...

Architecture, the saying goes, is a verb. Its an ongoing process of creating. For Brooklyn-based architects Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer it is, more accurately, two verbs: think and ...

'Studies in repetition and order, orchestrations of movement in the landscape, and elements placed in geometric conversation,' is how author Mary Myers describes the twenty-five-year career of San Francisco-based landscape ...

Edward Ford's forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two hugely influential books (The Details of Modern Architecture, volumes 1 ...

Our popular 2001 monograph Miller/Hull: Architects of the Pacific Northwest introduced the world to the work of architects David Miller and Robert Hull. Their energy-conscious designs, love of local materials, ...

Bamboo Fences provides a detailed look at the complex art of bamboo fence design and presents these unique structures in more than 250 photographs and line drawings. Author Isao Yoshikawa ...

Rael's engaging narrative addresses the misconceptions associated with earth architecture. Many assume that its only used for housing in poor rural areas - but there are examples of airports, embassies, ...

The allure of mobile, portable architecture is worldwide and centuries old. From the desert tents of the Bedouin to the silvery capsules of the Airstream trailer, mobile architecture has inspired ...

Provisional profiles nine of Americas most exciting architectural practices. Enlightening interviews together with a selection of drawings, diagrams, models, renderings, and building process photographs reveal a shared commitment to experimentation ...

Listen in on any conversation about architecture these days and you will almost certainly hear the buzzword of early 21st century building'sustainability. But just how sustainable must a building be ...

Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural ...