The Best Articles in Architecture

Hidden in the architecture of some of the world’s most famous buildings is a cultural exchange between Europe and the Middle East.

Tradition in the building arts explained the long way around, in three easy to remember rules.

«Beauty is objective and its effects are broadly similar and consistent across cultures and across millennia. For proof I only ask you to study a rose.»

An unconventional architect who started her career as an outsider, Hadid became a leading figure in architecture and design in the twenty-first century.

Each of these remnants is salvaged material from the Aylesbury Estate, a large housing complex in South East London, which is being demolished as part of a regeneration program.

A Colorado nonprofit is constructing its second affordable housing complex with an eye toward mass production.

Even though the names quartz and quartzite sound similar, they're very distinctive materials manufactured using decidedly different processes

Reservations Begin in 2023 for the 100-home Community Co-designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

The Bauhaus movement revolutionised art and design with its focus on functionalism, simplicity, and mass production, influencing modern…

Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern cement production, they hope to improve the material’s…

Architect Vishaan Chakrabarti shares his vision for accessible and sustainable housing to accommodate the world’s growing population.

Religion, art and politics have all led to the minimalist idea of "less is more". Dominic Lutyens explores the ideas and aesthetics behind pared-back simplicity.

Major cities across the US are introducing smart streetlights with the promise they'll provide safer and more sustainable public spaces. But behind th...

Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to…

A growing chorus of architects argue we have to build differently with concrete — which contributes to global warming and environmental destruction on a scale that’s hard to fathom — or perhaps…

Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to…

«The environment this concatenation of forces has produced is at once totalizing and meek — an architecture embarrassed by its barely architected-ness, a building style that cuts corners and then covers them with rainscreen cladding.»

The height of skyscrapers is limited by physical, economic and regulatory barriers, but we should want to overcome them and build taller. Here's how we can do it.

The late sculptor Robert Bruno's unfinished home—a Lubbock-area landmark—is becoming a vacation rental. His friends are distressed.