Perhaps the most singular trait of American homes is the hollow, cardboardy thud of our gypsum-board walls.  No one else has anything quite ...

A few years back, at the height of the dot-com boom, I  came across a bronze plaque outside the headquarters of one of those instant interne...

Union Station, Washington DC: In the heyday of rail travel, you really know you were going someplace. (Architects: Daniel Burnham and. Er...

Next time you head for the bathroom in the middle of the night, consider what the casual act of lighting your way would’ve entailed just ove...

A few years years back, just before the real estate bubble burst, a housing tract inspired by mass artist Thomas Kinkade’s bucolic townscape...

When it comes to identifying home styles, most people know generic terms such as Victorian, Bungalow, and Spanish.  Really pegging the thing...

Most architectural writing deals with what you might call “legitimate” styles: mass-produced, popular and relatively buttoned-down stuff.  B...