If you’ve ever seen one of the old Buck Rogers movie serials, with their packing-crate robots and Art Deco rockets shooting sparks, you can ...

What do movie palaces have to do with how you light your home? Plenty. After electric lighting replaced gaslight at the end of the 19th cen...

A few blocks from my office, there’s a dreary, ten-year-old strip mall fronted by literally acres of unrelieved parking lot.  Though it has ...

In the past, an architect was just what his Latin name suggested--a “master builder”.  Practical experience was the most important schooling...

Last time, we looked at the careers of Frank Lloyd Wright, Addison Mizner, and Cliff May, all renowned architects who were never formally t...

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's earliest and least-known "commissions"—this curious windmill tower built for his family's ...

During the past few weeks, every time I’ve had to use yet another badly-designed appliance, or had to sit idling at yet another ineptly-tim...