In nineteenth century America, the only way an architect could view historic architecture was to go see it firsthand (usually on another c...

Can’t tell a double hung from a double hernia? Then here in a nutshell are the most common window types, along with the architectural styl...

Homeowners these days are amazingly facile with architectural jargon, thanks no doubt to the gaggle of home-improvement shows on TV these da...

We Americans have happily given our cars the run of the country, paving over a good forty percent of our cities so they can roam unfettere...

How many structures have qualified as the tallest thing ever built? Surprisingly, it’s a pretty small club.  We don’t know much about st...

The other day I came across a plastic house. Not the futuristic World’s Fair variety--this was just an ordinary old house that had been “i...

The word “renovation” implies they you’re replacing something old and worn out with something new and better. Yet too many so-called renov...