During their university years, architects acquire a wide range of skills apart from learning to design buildings. Some of these include creative problem solving, project management, high attention to ...

The bold promise of Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, a sprawling volume edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder, is written across its spine in inch-tall lettering: “A theory 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a Contributing Writer at Forbes Global Properties. This article is more than 3 years old. The striking architectural home in ...

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

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: ...

Throughout much of the 20th century, a unique interdisciplinary conversation unfolded at Yale concerning the role of time and history in modern art and architecture. It was an ongoing discussion among ...

Tennessee is well-known for its lush rolling landscapes, less so for its urban skylines. That reputation is changing in Nashville, the state's most rapidly growing city by far, as downtown developers ...

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