Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer qualit….

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can b….

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the….

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publ….

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and ha….

Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practice….

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until P….

Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic c….

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most th….

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of ….

Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional mat….

As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct expe….

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflec….

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role o….

Always beware an unsigned architectural design..

The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and d….

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always….

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed building….

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus….

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pionee….

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles th….