Fifty years ago, a ferociously anti-design, anti-dolce vita force came into being in the halls of the architecture department of the University of Florence.
The country’s highest civilian award, it recognizes "individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private...
Our annual Groundbreakers award showcases the talents of architects working to change the way the built world functions. But this year, our winners aren’t stopping with buildings. They’re out to change the world.
Since starting her eponymous architecture firm in 2007, Davis has designed buildings that support women's rights and true sustainability, while overcoming vulnerabilities.
Boston-based architect Paul Lukez puts sustainability at the heart of each project he takes on, whether it's a pro-bono health center in Honduras or a private residence in Massachusetts.
In a city of big towers and broad shoulders, the Chicago-based architect aims to uplift overlooked and underserved communities through good design and architecture.
Architects are known for being sticklers, cantankerous even. They spend their lives experimenting with shapes and forms, so it only seems fitting that their grave markers would be just as distinctive.
In the last few years architects have done quite the dance in the mainstream cultural consciousness. So, basically, it's about time people started showing up at Halloween parties dressed as Le Corbusier.
In a wide-ranging conversation at the New Yorker Fesrival—which also involved some impressive live sketching—Ingels tackled topics from what makes for good architecture, to creating dense urban housing, and the BIG design for 2 World Trade Center.
A complex of new and old buildings, built to showcase Damien Hirst's private art collection to the public, has been awarded this year's RIBA Stirling Prize.
This home, built for a chef who wanted views of the water from every room of the house, features a burnt wood facade that blends into the surrounding coastline.
Architects transformed this run-down apartment by knocking down walls and removing interior partitions to bring in light. A see-through, folding doorway was used to create flexible spaces that stay bright.
The renovation, which began in 2015, replaced and improved the building's stunning skylight roof system. The sculpture gallery is set to reopen to the public next spring.
In a new short film from Nowness, the latest in a series of videos documenting designer homes, we get a peek inside Barragán ’s final house design: the 1975 Casa Gilardi in Mexico City, created for ad agency partners Martin Luque and Pancho Gilardi.
It’s a golden year for 87-year-old Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes de Rocha, who has just picked up his third major honor of the year. The Brutalist master made his name with a number of modern additions to São Paulo.
Presented without comment, here are a few choice passages from Rolling Stone’s profile of Danish starchitect in the making, Bjarke Ingels, who happens to be quite the jokester, in addition to being a wunderkind of sorts.
Is architecture’s most cutting-edge firm on the precipice of innovation or ubiquity? Our critic takes a look at the firm's body of work, from New York to Los Angeles and in between.
