You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. News of Donald Trump’s recent executive order concerning architecture, and ...

Beneath the ground lies a material that has quietly shaped the architecture of the modern world. Petroleum is rarely discussed within architectural discourse, yet the extraction, circulation, and ...

The order, which affects buildings like federal courthouses and agency headquarters, encourages classical styles rather than modernist aesthetics. By Zachary Small President Trump signed an executive ...

Nowa Huta Socialist Town. Image © Piotr Tomaszewski-Guillon / dronographyapplied.com under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...