How the Big Dig Changed Boston’s Landscape
Created after the Big Dig, the Rose Kennedy Greenway shows how cities attempt to heal the scars of highway construction.
How America’s Industrial Elite Built Their Own Palaces
Historic photographs capture Cleveland’s Millionaires’ Row, where Gilded Age wealth met revival-style splendor.
H. H. Richardson and the Making of an American Romanesque
Historical photographs help trace the emergence of Richardsonian Romanesque and its lasting influence on American architecture.
Building De Stijl Style
Piet Mondrian, co-founder of De Stijl, argued that the art movement wasn’t ready for architecture. Theo van Doesburg and others believed it was. Who was right?
The Reichstag Building Rises
Built at the end of the 1800s and rebuilt a century later, Berlin’s Reichstag building has proven a malleable symbol of political and social values.
(Re)discovering Minerva Parker Nichols, Architect
The first American woman to establish an independent architectural practice, Minerva Parker Nichols built an unprecedented career in Philadelphia.
Daniel Burnham in the Philippines
Building on his success as an architect and planner in Chicago, Daniel Burnham took American values and aesthetics to the new US colony of the Philippines.
Organic and Unusual: The Architecture of Bruce Goff
Both choice and circumstance forced Bruce Goff to forge his own path as an architect, freeing him to develop an individualistic yet natural approach to design.
Pyramids of the Present
We associate pyramids with ancient civilizations, but contemporary humans appear to have an affinity for the peaked structures as well.
A Close Partnership: Ray and Charles Eames
The Eameses worked together across many fields, but their house in the Pacific Palisades remains the most celebrated example of their collaborative designs.