For a city with a history of devastating fires – a place that famously turned to fire-resistant materials after a hellish 1871 fire swept downtown – Chicago has a lot of wooden back porches.

After decades in the making, Brookfield Properties officially completed Manhattan West in January 2024. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the mixed-use campus rises above active railroad ...

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TASCHEN has launched a new book in collaboration with acclaimed architect, Tadao Ando The 594-page volume features 750 sketches and plans that spans Ando’s career The book, priced at $200 USD, is ...

If Texas were a country — once again — the University of Texas Press would be first in line to act as our national publishing house. During its first 75 years, UT Press has released more than 4,000 ...

Architecture has always been more than bricks and mortar. It is equally constructed through words, ideas, and narratives. From ancient treatises to radical manifestos, from technical manuals to poetic ...

Before the advent of air conditioning and local building codes, any hope of living through a Lowcountry summer meant coming to terms with heat and humidity and finding how best take advantage of the ...

During the mid-20th century, the National Park Service launched the Mission 66 initiative: a bold plan to ditch rustic "Parkitecture" and go modern. It took decades for parkgoers to warm up to the ...

A mid-career monograph for Bangladeshi master architect Rafiq Azam focusing on the urban transformation of Dhaka, with an introduction by renowned architect Kenneth B. Frampton. Acclaimed architect ...

Louis Naidorf, the visionary architect behind the iconic Capitol Records Building, died Wednesday night of natural causes. He was 96. His death was confirmed by his longtime friend Mike Harkins.