It is increasingly clear that one of the major female architects of the 20th century was the Italian Lina Bo Bardi, who emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and made a name for herself there. But this claim is ...

If labor power—that is, a population’s potential to produce—was and is the most important form of “production,” the most central productive space is the house itself. Dogma, proposal for the ...

I grew up in a domestic world that seemed to hospitably reconfigure itself around our family’s evolving interests and enterprises. As my younger brother’s model horse and airplane collections expanded ...

The house will sit in the middle of the meadow, like an object, without spoiling anything. To transform space . . . it is first necessary to eliminate rigid objects, conventional receptacles: one must ...

Redesign, for decades stigmatized by Modernist purists as an inferior architectural specialty reserved for the artistically timid and creatively challenged, has finally become a legitimate part of ...

Abele’s stylistic reserve contrasts with the turbulence about style going on within architecture concurrent with his career—challenges to classicism as the fount of inspiration for American civic ...

The architectural profession is in the midst of a long-overdue ethical reckoning. For years, it could ride the tidal wave of globalization to bigger and better commissions while still claiming that it ...

Despite remarkable advancements in technology, the construction documents that architects produce for their clients to communicate a building design and its intent—what are called CD sets—have not ...

Cities and landscapes in Latin America are the result of three distinct yet interrelated processes. 1 The first is its physical geography, which continues to be fundamental to its territorial ...

In June 2014, drivers crossing the causeway between Singapore and Johor, Malaysia, began to notice something strange. A slender sandbar, which had long stood in the middle of the narrow straits, had ...

Paul Rudolph’s Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center building—one component of Boston’s partially completed Government Service Center—has confounded observers since it opened in 1971. Historians have ...

But today, beyond the intentional construction and exchange of messages, we are all constantly “read” as data. While we offer our identities as moldable content and marketing fodder with every click; ...