Architecture

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Up From Zero, the Novel

A post-9/11 fiction scooped by reality.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Reading in Public

A new book club with an unusual topic: architecture and design.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Welcome Back, Overbite

Albert C. Ledner's mid-century scallops and portholes have staying power.

Nancy Levinson|Essays

A Dream House for Architect Barbie

Just in time for the midsummer heat, Architect Barbie's got a competition-winning new dream house in Malibu.

Jessica Helfand|Advertisement

For Sale: The Earliest Modern Studio in America

In 1931, a young American artist designed a modern studio on a mountaintop in the Berkshires in Connecticut: it would be one of the first modern houses in America, pre-dating Frank Lloyd’s Fallingwater by five years. It …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Let’s Go! World’s Fairs of the 1930s

"Designing Tomorrow" at the National Building Museum showcases the optimisim, futurism, and dreamy design ideas of the 1930s.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

New Apple HQ, 1957

Wouldn't it be more radical for Apple to move back to town?

John Thackara|Essays

Sweat Equity Infra

The Millau Viaduct is a tourist attaction in the making. Future vistors will gawk at it and wonder: “how *did* they build that?”

Alexia|Essays

My Studio H Experience

Adventures in design crits: A high school junior recounts her Studio H year working with onerous classmates and power tools.

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Unsung Genius of Flemish Architecture

The New Flemish Architecture should not be underestimated, though it usually is.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Manhattan Museum Musical Chairs

Bye, bye Museum of American Folk Art. Hello the forward march of the Modern.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Science Gets Around to Architecture

Why are we still privileging scientific studies over visual thinking?