Prof. Joseph Rykwert, architecture and art history, University of Pennsylvania, spoke to a crowd of architecture students about the evolution and role of theory in modern architecture in Lewis ...

School of Architecture faculty Dr. Ruo Jia’s book Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory: Different Patches of the Concrete is available for pre-order. The book starts ...

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 ...

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

The 3rd annual Korean Studies Symposium at the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York, took place on October 18-19, 2024. The event was organized by the Asia Research Institute and ...

Asplund, Entrance Pavilion, Stockholm Exhibition 1930: “A composition of houses, flags, floodlights, flowers, fireworks, happy people and clean table cloths...” (Aalto) (Drawing by Max Söderholm.

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...

1. The Emperor's New Paint -- 2. The Fashion Police -- 3. Scratching the Surface -- 4. Redressing Architecture -- 5. The Antifashion Fashion -- 6. White Lies -- 7. Deep Skin -- 8. Machine-Age ...