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Manifesto: Bruce Sterling, “Viridian Design Speech” (1998)

Manifesto: Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley, “Deconstructivist Architecture” (1988)

Manifestos: Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” (1961), Congress for the New Urbanism, “Charter of the New...

Manifesto: Robert Venturi, “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture” (1966)

Manifestos: Le Corbusier, “Towards a New Architecture” (1923); Walter Gropius, “The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus” (1923)

Manifesto: F.T. Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909)

One day last April there was great excitement on Highland Avenue, a quiet, hilly street (on which this writer happens to live) of...

Manifesto: William Morris, “The Lesser Arts of Life” (1877)

Which comes first, the movement or the manifesto? From Arts and Crafts to eco-design, a seven-step guide to design movements.

Architect Robert Swatt, designer of the GreenCity Lofts condo complex on the border of Oakland and Emeryville, California, makes...

At the end of 2000, Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir, Icelandic natives and partners in the Santa Monica–based...

Caught in the grip of the worst drought in a century, Australians are showering together.

Architects Simon Beames and Simon Dickens are worried.

When most people think of locations for a holiday home, they have visions of beaches, golf courses, spas, and chalets.

Get your information from curators, professors of contemporary art, critics, and other collectors through your local arts...

“The act of collecting is about looking, studying, sorting, sifting, concentrating, weighing, and making decisions.

Lakes of ink have been spilled over a peculiarly American wanderlust, whether it’s our ancestors’ push westward or our current...

The iconic little black book gets big with the introduction of Moleskine’s new Folio collection.

The use of salvaged material in design has become such a strong sign of responsibility and sustainability that it sometimes...

San Francisco-based designer Adrien Segal has taken data visualization to new heights with her tidal datum table, a...

T-Table stands for transgenic table.

Beyond a shining white foyer and a canteen infused with fragrant lunchtime aromas, Marimekko’s Helsinki headquarters hides a...

Moroso, the Italian furniture company known for discovering remarkable designers such as Ron Arad and Patricia Urquiola,...

We live in a manufactured world.

If lean times mean better design, smarter design, then we're already feeling the benefits.

For years, as the author of books on eco-home design and a founder of two environmental general stores, I’ve been advocating...

Thirty years from now, there will be no more oil.

Sustainability may be the buzzword du jour, but how can you tell if a product is as green as it’s cracked up to be?

Bees have always been admired for their industrious nature and intricate honeycomb architecture; Charles Darwin called the...

Product design that takes cues from nature, known as biomimicry, has produced a num-ber of ingenious and popular products we use...

The right lighting can bring warmth and atmosphere to any room.

Silver has been used for centuries as an antimicrobial agent.

As more and more Americans are quickly discovering, the land beneath our feet is not quite as solid as we thought.

Every hour, enough sunlight hits the earth to power the entire planet for a year.

The American Institute of Architects has unveiled its 2009 Honor Awards, an annual event in which 25 projects in architecture,...

Americans have always held a soft spot in their hearts for futuristic materials, from the amazing light-weight properties of...