What modern is: introduction -- Space opens up -- Staging modernity: the aesthetics of the future -- A new style of life: artifacts of modernity -- At home in the brave new world -- Buildings like ...

Modernism madness has just abated in town, but if still hungry for more, a trip to the Palm Springs Art Museum’s Architecture and Design Center to see its spectacular new exhibit “Albert Frey, ...

After reading "Defining merit in historic preservation" (Editorial, Jan. 11), regarding saving modern-era buildings, and specifically the proposed demolition of the former Knutson Co. office building ...

More than 5,500 miles from Palm Springs, assembled on a shallow pool in front of the Fondation Louis Vuitton museum in Paris, sits a home that could belong in the desert. La Maison au Bord de l'Eau, ...

Renaissance scholar Petrarch once wrote of Roman consul Scipio Africanus in a passage that remains strikingly relevant to the contemporary state of architecture: “Then perhaps, with the darkness ...

The idea of integration between art and architecture dates back to the very origin of the discipline, however, it took on a new meaning and social purpose during the Avant-Garde movement of the early ...

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. Mies van der Rohe: ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge as "The Mental Disorders that Gave Us Modern Architecture". How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that ...

Palm Springs is known around the world as a mecca for preserved mid-century architecture, but many people are unfamiliar with what's hiding behind the country club gates and tall hedges of Rancho ...

The concepts of history and modern might seem to be opposites, but the La Jolla Historical Society has managed to blend the two with its La Jolla Modernism & Architecture Week. The third annual event, ...