I n the early 1950s, a wide, slopin g plain at the foot of the Shivalik Hills in northwest India was cleared of over 50 agrarian villages. From that newly blank slate rose Chandigarh, a city conceived ...

Catholicism made the invisible visible. Love, fear, suffering, death, hope, guilt, forgiveness, and salvation were transformed into objects, images, light, sound, movement, and ritual. An idea did not ...

It’s taken decades to reverse the damage that planner Maurice Rotival helped create—and the job isn’t complete.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is destined to become a landmark and must-visit destination for Los Angeles visitors. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s ...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is destined to become a landmark and must-visit destination for Los Angeles visitors. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s ...

In case you missed it, our world continues, after two years, to suffer cultural spasms in response to unseen, unrelenting, and deadly infective agents that continue to wash over entire populations, ...

The price of living in Rome must have been substantial. A tombstone from a shared tomb outside Rome bears an inscription termed “The Tenant’s Lament” for the ex-slave Ancarenus Nothus. It reads: “My ...

Absolutely. I figured that it was important to go through with Tod and Billie and their team from TWBTA [Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects], and to see the finished building through their eyes. And ...

Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just ...

When I started it, I was interested in buses, because not a lot had been written about them as mass transit. They always get overlooked. Rail gets so much attention. I was interested in buses from a ...

Kahn posed fundamental, perennial questions that just don’t go away: What’s the nature of a room? What are the basic spatial forms for human assembly? What are the natural orders of different building ...

George Lakoff is a linguist, cognitive scientist, and popular author who spent his career at the University of California at Berkeley, including the creation of two major laboratories. His research ...