The next best thing to a garage full of cars is a library full of car books. The shelves in our garage are fairly sagging with literature dedicated to automobiles and motorcycles. It usually starts by ...
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 ...
A version of the three R’s all too rare today—religion, reproduction and residential construction—flourished madly in this country after World War II, so it shouldn’t be surprising that new houses of ...
When John Gendall began to write a book on architecture in the Rocky Mountains, “I was expecting to find a common backdrop,” he says. “A rocky topography and a lot of snow—some of the cliches.” ...
A longtime member of the faculty at Columbia University in New York, historian Kenneth Frampton, at 91 years old, remains a formidable force in architecture. In 2020, his significantly revised and ...
Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quito-the capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous yet understudied built environment-stands as a testament to architectural ...
mASEANa: Appreciating modern ASEAN architecture is a visually immersive and regionally groundbreaking publication that explores the rich and diverse expressions of the 20th-century architectural ...
Midcentury modern architecture revolutionized the way in which Americans live. Seven decades after it was widely embraced, people still desire the spare aesthetic qualities of open interiors with ...
In the optimistic postwar period of the 1950s, all things seemed possible, including the notion that design could make Americans live better and be better. Into this mix of new art and design in ...
MACON, Ga. — There are a lot of beautiful older buildings in Macon, and two men who know the city's architecture best just released a new book. Jim Barfield and Walter Elliott are the creators behind ...