Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

How does one take the current temperature of residential architecture in America—the identification of its fashions, its experimental developments and, moreover, the individuals who are its ...

As The Architect’s Newspaper turns 20, we’re reflecting on two decades of operations. But because architecture is about the future, we’re also thinking about what’s next. What will the scene be like ...

Sustainable architecture refers less to how a building looks and more to how it performs; it’s a way of building that considers the full life cycle of a structure, from building materials to daily use ...

Half a century ago, a dozen Chicago women working in a male-dominated profession met in a North Michigan Avenue office to launch a mutually supportive group called Chicago Women in Architecture. Among ...

It’s hard to quibble with the initial premise of this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial. It’s titled “SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change,” and that certainly seems to describe our ...

Some people see older buildings as revered artifacts that have stood the test of time, but others see them as occupying sites that could be used for new development. That tension is currently playing ...

Post World War II, architects like Kenzo Tange pioneered a new blend of tradition with modernism, sparking the influential Metabolist movement of the 1960s that imagined cities as organic, adaptable ...

What is risk worth? Architecture is inseparable from uncertainty—sometimes embraced, sometimes resisted, but always present. We invent bold forms that may fail. We propose brighter futures that may ...

Following its very own principles, Japanese architecture is a true exhibition in balance: balance between history and modernity, between tradition and innovation. It is everything from centuries-old ...