In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...

Arch 252, History and Theory of Architecture 4, is the fourth course in a required four-semester sequence of history-theory courses for Architecture majors. This discussion-based course examines the ...

Introduction -- Pioneers -- Rhetoric (building with a message) -- Sacred -- Urban visions -- Big and beautiful -- Material matters -- Lost and found -- Glossary ...

Arch 251D, History and Theory of Architecture 3, is the third course in a required four-semester sequence of history-theory courses for Architecture majors. This discussion-based course examines the ...

In both cases, we observe the construction of an identity consolidated over decades — or even centuries — supported by a set of factors that inscribe them into history. Not only because of the ...

The late 1800s landmark was said to be "the largest and finest office building in the United States" upon its completion.

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...

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In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of ...