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Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise Huxtable, who was 91 when she died Jan. 7, didn't invent architecture journalism. It just seems that way. When she was hired by the New York Times in...
Business of Creativity: From Architecture to Kids’ Furniture
Architect Roberto Gil discovered a knack for building furniture while toying with simple designs in his small apartment. His work bloomed into a successful kids'...
Which 14 Video Games Made It Into MoMA’s Permanent Collection?
Video games are officially art now
English Country Goes Rock-'N'-Roll
Implausible as it may seem, holiday accommodation in rural England isn't limited to twee little cottages, somber stately homes and drafty old castles with...
Is China's Architectural Ambition Leaving Its Own Talent Behind?
These days, fanfare and trumpets typically accompany architects when they begin new projects in China — and with good reason. In recent years, China, along with...
Architecture in Bloom
Singapore's newest museum doesn't dwell on the alleged dichotomy between art and science. Instead, it celebrates the connections between both, with lively...
Refusing to Back Down
Are skyscrapers an endangered species? That was the feeling in the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center. But the architecture community is...
Eero Dynamic.
In the decades after World War II, when America was assuming its new role as the center of the known universe, Eero Saarinen was the man who supplied it with an...
A Cool Way to Make Architecture Pay: Ice Cream!
Making a living as an architect has never been an easy proposition. Very expensive schooling is generally followed by years of laboring under another architect...
Swiss Minimalist Peter Zumthor Wins Architecture Prize
If further proof were needed that the world is in a chastened mood these days, there's this: the Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of the most prestigious...
Architecture provides
Architecture provides the foundation for spring's most distinctive handbags. Elie Tahari based his 510 collection on the Gordon Bunshaft--designed building that...
Architecture.
Taliesin Mod. Fab SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.; STUDENTS OF THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE It's been a tradition for more than 70 years that students at the...
Venice Architecture Biennale: Ideal Homes
Asked what he hoped to achieve as curator of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, Aaron Betsky replied: "To astonish and amaze." He succeeds. "Out There:...
The Best Of The Rest: Architecture
Water Works Some people look at a waterfall and see water. Other people--people who work at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory--see a building material or a...
Architecture: Splendor in the Glass.
WHEN COMPLETED IN 1949, THE HOUSE THAT Philip Johnson designed for himself in New Canaan, Conn., was the most resolute statement of Modernist principles ever set...
Architecture: See Right Through It
Celebrated for its breathtaking simplicity, Philip Johnson's Glass House has oft been photographed but has never been open to the public, until now. Starting...
Architecture: Light at the Museum
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., is a serene neoclassical building from 1933. A stately terraced lawn with a sculpture garden pours down from...
ARCHITECTURE: The Art That Lies Beneath
Now that architecture is practically as glamorously daredevil as bullfighting, every year has its Most Anticipated Building. In 2006 there were two--Daniel...
Architecture: Curveballs Are In Play
As far as architecture is concerned, if the 20th century was the age of the box, the 21st is fast becoming the age of the wiggle. Over the past few years, and...
Architecture: Going Up ... and Up: When Height Is All That Matters
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Adrian D. Smith, a well-known architect in the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, was in a meeting with Donald Trump...
