In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...

Walk through any major city today and you're surrounded by glass towers, concrete blocks, and repetitive facades that stretch endlessly into the sky. They look efficient, even impressive sometimes.

With the largest concentration of preserved midcentury-modern structures in the world, Palm Springs is synonymous with midcentury-modern architecture. The resort town, about 100 miles east of L.A., is ...

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Humans are psychologically wired to prefer curved, soft forms, which our brains associate with safety, calm, and nature. In contrast, sharp, angular (or rectilinear) designs can trigger a mild, ...

Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...

In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and unique architecture. In Japan, the new life expectancy of a building is ...

Midcentury modernism is not the first architectural style that comes to mind when you think of Vermont. But the state’s modern structures, dating from the 1930s through 1970s, feature surprisingly ...

Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures in a fraction of the time. The surprising reason is not mystical at all, but ...