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The Make It Right Foundation has gotten loads of press over the last few years, thanks in large part to its ultra-celebrity...

This weekend’s art, architecture, and design events features a typography exhibition opening in Los Angeles, the end of both...

Last week I traveled back East to my hometown of Buffalo, New York.

On the surface, craft culture may seem as soft and fuzzy as a skein of hand-dyed yarn, but as I learned at the American Craft...

I had two legs to my trip as I flew back to San Francisco from Melbourne, Australia.

In January 2003, we issued a challenge to 16 architects: Design a modern prefab home for $200,000.

In the summer of 2001, Element Skateboards founder Johnny Schillereff stumbled on a new addition to a YMCA skate camp in Northern...

Though I couldn’t make it out to Washington, DC, this weekend to see the final days of the Solar Decathlon—which wrapped up...

Plastic waste is a huge problem.

As the week draws to a close, we hope you'll enjoy this smattering of links from the Dwell staff.

I’m in Buffalo this week visiting friends and family—and getting the chance to check out the new visitors’ center at Frank Lloyd...

I'm in the air en route to Minneapolis for the American Craft Council's annual conference, where a number of writers, artists,...

My last full day in Melbourne, Australia, was one to which I’d been looking forward—not because I was happy to leave the Vegemite...

At Dress Codes, the current exhibition and third triennial at the International Center of Photography in New York, I saw a...

After zipping around the countryside on my third day in Melbourne, Australia, Day Four was to be a decidedly urban affair--a...

A trip to New York City is inevitably a whirlwind, whether it's your first visit or your five hundredth.

Aaron Britt, our intrepid editor abroad, shares the sights seen on the third day of his architectural sojourn to Melbourne,...

In Mitchell’s Plain township in Cape Town, South Africa, living conditions are harsh.

Editor Aaron Britt keeps the home fires stoked with tales and photographs from his architectural tour of Melbourne, Australia.

After untold hours in the air, and an unexpected 4AM stop in New Caladonia, I finally arrived in Melbourne, Australia, to...

For their weekend home in Sharon, Connecticut, architect Lynn Gaffney and her husband, Bill Backus, filled their natural wood...

When designer Barbara Hill decided to renovate her 1960s condo in Houston, Texas, she stripped the bathroom down to its bare...

Last week, Assistant Editor Jordan Kushins brought you millergoodman's Shapemaker wooden block set.

Interweb inspiration arrived onscreen for the Dwell staff in various forms this week, from adorable animal-shaped cutting boards...

Welcome to the second installment of Out and About, our weekly round-up of art and architecture events and exhibitions around the...

Armed with a masters in architecture from Columbia University and only 3 years in the field, architectural designer Alan Y. L....

It’s the site where wars are protested, dreams declared, and millions still march, but on October 9 the National Mall in...

Our first stop on day one of our week of tile-mania at Cersaie was at the booth of tile manufacturer Trend, an Italian company...

"Makers with Ph.Ds stood next to makers from the side of the road - it is not about who you are or where you come from, but what...

I spent last week at Cersaie, the annual trade show held each year in Bologna, Italy, featuring the latest in ceramic tiles and...

Two years ago architect Chad Everhart came across an old farmhouse near Boone, North Carolina.

Providence is all abuzz with "A Better World By Design" this weekend, a three-day conference thrown by students at Brown...

I got a note from Mike Tower of Studio Tractor Architecture the other day showing off his firm's collaboration with metalworker...

The future of prefab is an increasingly nonarchitectural problem.

Ever wonder where the Dwell staff noodles online? Look no further—as part of our weekly series, Friday Finds, we present a...

Benjamin Hubert has been busy since graduating with an industrial design degree from Loughborough University in 2006.