In the optimistic postwar period of the 1950s, all things seemed possible, including the notion that design could make Americans live better and be better. Into this mix of new art and design in ...

From Lower Manhattan to Crenshaw Boulevard, Zaha Hadid to Belgian Art Nouveau, this fall brings reappraisals of buildings, sites, streets, design movements and architects that we thought we knew. By ...

Architecture and art share a profound connection, particularly within the context of art galleries. Iconic galleries around the world are not just venues to house art but architectural landmarks in ...

Architect Jeanne Gang explores how the horticultural practice of grafting can inspire a fresh paradigm for sustainable design. Jeanne Gang, one of America’s most distinguished contemporary architects, ...

"Architecture =Art: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection" exhibition at Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, 2025. . Image © Paul Clemence "Architecture =Art ...

For a $2 billion undertaking encompassing multiple projects within a 2.1 million-square-foot complex, the people directing the ongoing building efforts at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art talk a ...

Fire stations as civic architecture provide a tremendous opportunity to contribute art to the community. Public art can amplify a fire organization’s public connection and community engagement.

NBCUniversal, Caltech, ArtCenter and museums make our year-end list. An affordable housing design does too. The picks are less about buildings as dramatic sculpture as they are about serving ...

The staircase is among the most basic of architectural elements, yet one that lends itself to creative expression. Are the steps wide or narrow, steep or gentle, deep or shallow? What shape or ...

The path to becoming an architect takes years of study and training and requires creativity, problem-solving and technical ...

The performance artist Marina Abramovic celebrated the announcement of a new cultural center in a private home designed by the famed Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Marina Abramovic, seated, read ...

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