An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country, said the seventeenth-century English diplomat Sir Henry Wotton. By “to lie,” Wotton meant both to dwell somewhere (in a ...

Behind newly dotted glass windows at the Chicago Architecture Center along the Loop’s bustling Wacker Drive, architects, environmentalists and exhibit curators are preparing to offer visitors a ...

Amid growing recognition of architecture's responsibility toward environmental and planetary ecologies, contemporary practice is increasingly oriented toward working with what already exists—its ...

If we learned anything from the recent fire and reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris, it is that the building of a Gothic cathedral depends on countless prosaic operations—the felling of oak trees, ...

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Every data modernization effort starts with a blueprint. The architecture looks clean. The data flows are defined. The platform choice is justified. Whether it is a data warehouse, a data lake or a ...

The Art and Architecture Building on the University of Tennessee campus is known for its unique brutalist design. Designed by father-and-son architects Bruce and Doug McCarty, the building has ...

Not long ago, recent enough to feel current, architecture entered a moment in which buildings became legible as products. The framing offered discipline and a refreshed perspective to an industry that ...

Fast Company asked architects from some of the top firms working around the world what they thought about the look of architecture in 2026. Of course, a building designed in 2026 almost certainly will ...

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It is time to restore a word that is almost completely absent from schools of architecture today. That word, surprisingly, is “building.” If spoken at all in schools, it is in the spirit of apology or ...

Maybe this was a pressure-creating-diamonds situation. Somehow in the 1930s, amid the immense stresses of economic collapse, natural disaster, Olympic anxiety and the looming shadow of World War II, ...