The slab-sided U.N. Secretariat building in Manhattan has caused more controversy than any other skyscraper in Manhattan’s jagged skyline. Distinguished architects like Richard Neutra have hailed it ...

Architecture books can take you places, allowing you to visit fascinating buildings around the world without the hassle of getting there. The German-born architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) helped ...

The city of Wolverhampton, England, enters the architectural history books this month as residents move into Victoria Hall, their brand new high-rise modular apartment building. At 25 stories, ...

For a lot of us, there’s a bright line separating the books we enjoyed as children from the “real” books of our more mature years. We all eventually age out of the thin, brightly illustrated picture ...

Submitted photo Globally known photographer Iwan Baan shot images for “American Modern: Architecture, Community, Columbus Indiana.” Call it a spire of what a city aspires to. The pointed top of the ...

In the new Phaidon book “Concrete Architecture,” Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...

The standards for classifying good or terrible architecture are usefulness and beauty, or what we commonly refer to as practicality and aesthetics. However, practicality might quickly direct us toward ...