From the Archives: Are You Illiterate About Modern Architecture?

Although some architects, when asked to write about architecture, tend either to airy abstractions or to mumbles about ...

A Century-Old Italian Villa Named After the Owner’s Dog Transforms into a Modern (But Not Too) Home

The Bolzano house now features open spaces, contemporary furnishings, and original details that create a dialogue between ...

9 Black Modernist Architects And The Landmarks They Designed

A whole population of Black architects continue to struggle for recognition in a field notorious for its lack of diversity.

How mid-century modern architecture took over the world

In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of ...
Business Wire

Doha Debates Questions Whether Modern Architecture Contributes to Cultural Decline

As the debate unfolds, the experts and students wrestle with tensions between heritage and progress; local identity and global design; and timeless beauty versus evolving aesthetics. The conversation ...
ArchDaily

The Myth of Pure White Architecture: How Architects of Modernity Used Color

Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective ...
The Inlander

Spokane's legacy of 'modern' architecture is everywhere you look — here are seven examples that should be protected and celebrated

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

L.A. taken over by giant box houses that favor size over style

You’ve seen them. Perhaps they’ve taken over your neighborhood, packing in cheek-by-jowl, straddling hillsides and squeezing out every square inch of space that zoning laws allow. They are modern box ...