History has a habit of identifying the dominant architectural movements of a time in very broad strokes: Beaux Arts, Victorian, Art Deco, Modernist, Post-Modern, and so on. Nuance is sacrificed in the ...

In 1982, at a conference on earth building in Tucson, Arizona, an unusual presentation challenged everything architects thought they knew about rural resources. Instead of focusing on construction ...

“Hello”, is how more than a few thousand days began: A few of those days became odysseys like the great imaginary kind…but different: Every beginning has a moment. I would walk with- – Oscar Niemeyer, ...

As Portland’s cement industry bloomed at the turn of the 1900s and architects became increasingly tired of conventional materials, Montreal became something of a playground for concrete ...

I knew a famous architectural theorist: He wanted to collaborate about the city not yet seen. He wanted to undress the city. He wanted to reveal himself to the city: He wanted secrets: He wanted to be ...