Architect-author Dan Maginn of El Dorado Inc. gives us the inside track on one of his favorite subjects: contractors.

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Ever since Adam and Eve’s unfortunate eviction, their descendants have been plunging hands and seeds into the earth in hopes of...

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Aside from that mischievous caveperson in France who used a piece of charcoal to draw a line around some stick figures that...

One of the oldest proclamations in Western literature—maybe the very oldest, depending on how you see things—is “Let there be...

Architect Cary Bernstein gives constructive advice: know what you want, who you're working with, and how much you can spend.

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Read this before you embark on a project working alongside a contractor and an architect.

Here's what you need to know before undergoing a building project with a contractor but no architect.

The kitchen has evolved from a closed-off satellite to the most open, doted-upon room in the house—and repository of our dreams...

Never hire a builder or contractor without first asking these essential questions.

As anyone who has been to Peru, or Bali, or Timbuktu can tell you, travel is not merely the experience of going somewhere.

Mention universal design and see your companions’ eyes start glazing over.

Eating has always been a sociable event, from primitive campfire cooking to reclining on lectuli at lavish Greek and Roman...

The profession of landscape architecture is very much rooted in the European tradition of garden design, and it didn’t germinate...

The ancient Greeks did it in the agora; the Romans did it in the forum; Persians did it in the bazaar (“the place of prices”);...

If the design world feels like an endless parade of products, then the gnashing maws of industrial production assuredly underpin...

Last night I went to a corner liquor store to buy some toothpaste.

An afternoon in the park has evolved from picnicking in the local cemetery to sun-bathing atop a retrofitted railroad trestle.

For millennia, kings and clerics alike have understood that little inspires awe and confers power better than a battalion of...

Though the market has rarely looked worse, our primer on the past, present, and future of modern real estate gives you the inside...