George Smart is speaking out for the modern houses he loves.

The adult offspring of famous architects share what it was like to use their fathers’ buildings as playgrounds.

In the early aughts, we explored how across the country, people shunned the colonial and Mediterranean fantasias offered by...

Twenty years ago, people were flocking to smaller cities en masse, causing rapid architectural growth—for better or worse.

In 2001, Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena were tasked with building an “extremely modern” house on a steep hillside lot in...

Beginning in the ’90s, formerly rural regions transformed into far-flung enclaves for the elite, and vast acreages became utopias...

Though it’s since been relocated, the drama surrounding the 1980s Winton Guest House raised questions about preserving...

Designed in 1948 by Thomas Dolliver Church, the kidney pool—and its artistic ethos—got everyone hooked on the hedonistic...

In 2006, author and native New Yorker Robert Sullivan embarked on a road trip to explore how the way we move around impacts the...

At the turn of the millennium, the Murray Grove development attempted to rebrand modular construction, confronting Britain’s...

Photographs and Knoll brochures from the 1980s shed light on the art direction of Wolf Kaiser

More than 20 years ago, we spoke to residents of the legendary L’Unité d’Habitation housing complex about how Corbu’s first...

How coastal fog, Taliesin West, and burgeoning beat culture helped the experimental Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice pioneer his own...

Of course a famous architect’s offspring created a toy that for over 100 years has fostered an interest in building at an early...

Historian Thomas S. Hines didn’t just write the seminal monograph of Richard Neutra’s work, he called the architect’s modernist...

Starting in the 1960s, Archigram, Ant Farm, and Superstudio questioned the very fundamentals of architecture, from its...

In 2007, we wrote about the icon reopening to the public—and to public scrutiny.