Modern architecture, emerging in the 1930s and thriving through the 1970s, revolutionized building design by focusing on functionality and human living rather than ornamental beauty. As ...

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

How did modern architecture develop to its present state? Three new monographs trace that path, even if they don't cover every direction the field has taken over the last century. In Mies van der Rohe ...

Female architects have been instrumental in contributing to the development of contemporary architecture that is innovative, flexible, and human-oriented. In many cases, their designs defy traditional ...

In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...

It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...

A courtyard interrupts the sequence. A line of glass fractures the horizon. Architecture begins to speak. A building becomes more than shelter. It becomes perception. Space unfolds through movement, ...

Spokane's skyline boasts three iconic buildings. The Pavilion. Gifted to the city by the United States government in preparation for Expo '74, the cable structure is unlike any other in Spokane. The ...