Wrecking Ballroom

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If there’s one thing Trump is excellent at doing, it’s inciting outrage among vast swaths of the population. The ongoing ballroom-cum–demolition derby debacle at the White House is no exception, the president deploying wanton destruction, donor corruption, and outright lies—with…

Frank Gehry, the Disrupter, Opened Their Imaginations

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Architects, artists, clients and partners assess his life and impact over eight decades.

Santiago de Compostela Architecture City Guide: Exploring Spain’s Pilgrimage Heritage and Modern Design

Save this picture! Santiago de Compostela, located in northwestern Spain, is celebrated worldwide as the final destination of the historic Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.

Paul Rudolph Was an Architectural Star. Now He’s a Cautionary Tale.

American architecture’s bright, shining light of the Kennedy era, Paul Rudolph was scrounging for commissions less than a decade later.

New Mexico’s ‘Earthships’ offer unique model for living off the grid

PBS News

Donate to PBS News Hour by June 30! This summer’s extreme heat and the demand for air conditioning are putting a big strain on the electricity grid in many parts of the nation.

The Huts of the Appalachian Trail

JSTOR Daily

For hikers on the Appalachian Trail, arriving at a shelter at the end of the day means a source of fresh water and a dry place to sleep—assuming the hut isn’t already full by the time they arrive.

Meet Carl, a pine tree who’s just ‘another coworker’ at this Michigan library

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LANSING, MI — For being roughly 87-years-old, Carl looks pretty good. For an Eastern white pine planted inside the Library of Michigan, that is.

Worried About Living in a Flood Zone? Try a House That Floats.

As sea levels rise and storms worsen, threatening the planet’s fragile coastlines, some architects and developers are looking to the water not as a looming threat, but as a frontier for development.

SunRay Kelley, Master Builder of the Counterculture, Dies at 71

SunRay Kelley, the barefoot maverick builder of fantastical handmade castles, yurts, temples, spirit lodges, tree houses, pavilions and structures so fanciful that they defied conventional building typologies, died on July 16 in Sedro-Woolley, Wash. He was 71. Bonnie Howard, Mr.

Decoding old Santa Fe

Santa Fe New Mexican

The local register of historic homes and properties in Santa Fe does more than provide a monument to the building styles of yesteryear; it provides a developmental road map to

Fifty Years of “Learning from Las Vegas”

The New Yorker

On the morning of January 10, 1969, thirteen graduate students gathered inside Yale’s Art and Architecture Building to give their final presentations in a studio led by the married architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi.

Hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Designs Were Never Built. Here’s What They Might Have Looked Like

Smithsonian Magazine

Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 structures during his seven-decade career. The prolific American architect, known as one of the creators of the Prairie School, helped popularize a now-widespread style characterized by simplicity and harmony with nature.

How Tall Is Too Tall?

The Atlantic

It was a sunny day in New York City when I realized that my sky was being stolen. The first sign of trouble was the crane. Its thin finger appeared over the old brick building outside my window, scratching at the sliver of sky I could just make out above the rooftops. My sky.

What Will Happen to a Scofflaw, His Composting Toilet and Two Acres of Land?

David Lee Hoffman has been fighting a local government in California for decades to keep his eccentric home and way of living intact. David Lee Hoffman knows the way he has chosen to live for nearly 50 years is unconventional, maybe even a little bit crazy and likely against the law.

How the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid Became a Memphis Icon

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The Life and Death of the Original Micro-Apartments

The New Yorker

One sunny winter afternoon in 2019, I was in Tokyo on a reporting trip, wandering through the glitzy Ginza district with an American friend who happened to be in the city on vacation.