Many of these émigrés were architects associated with the Bauhaus, the famous school of design and architecture established ...
When the Los Angeles-area fires came for the Eames and Gamble houses, preservationists had to choose what to save. Here’s ...
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
The Chinese fishing nets might be the famous photo op, but it’s the Victorian architecture and lingering traditions of ...
In an excerpt from this volume of essays, Guy Nordenson explores the traces of history left behind by different construction ...
He returns to our screens tonight with George Clarke's Building Home on Channel 4. But what do we know about his life away ...
For some, Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts evoke images of coal mines, industrial sprawl, and Russian-speaking culture oriented toward Moscow. Yet to accept this as the regions’ defining reality ...
What is clear is that Discipline and Punish, at 50, has lost none of its provocative power. Nor, any of its relevance. Our ceaseless technological and social transformations continue to engender new ...
Why the stark 20th-century architectural style is back in vogue.
From landlocked and mountainous Kyrgyzstan to miniscule Andorra, to the Pacific island country of Papua New Guinea, we take a ...
As a student of sociology, my instinct was to examine what the people of Uzbekistan felt about this. So, I set out on my mini ...
In 1901, the Amsterdam city government started to replace privately owned slums with cooperatively run housing. The project ...