The Shape of the Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture—the first book to center on this subject—presents the contributions of thirteen well-known practitioners and academics who discuss the forms ...

Modern "sustainable"' innovations in architecture are failing to slow climate change, but revisiting ancient knowledge and ...

How many structural engineers does it take to shape a building? Ordinarily, none. That’s the architect’s job. But the $490-million Museum Plaza, smack on an Ohio River flood plain between a levee wall ...

The ellipse is a shape with its own special place in art history. It was instrumental to the developments of compositional perspective and, during the Renaissance, artist-architects including ...

At the spring gala of the New York City Ballet, ballet master in chief Peter Martins appeared onstage to lift a glass of aquavit in honor of architect Santiago Calatrava. The Spanish architect ...

In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...