For millennia, the only way to build to build a strong building was to pile up lots and lots of stone or brick, forming massive masonry wall...

In 1978, the British architect Norman Foster was showing a distinguished visitor around the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, an innovative...

For millenia, the only way to create a strong, durable, and fireproof structure was to build it out of stone or brick. Needless to say, th...

The New Urbanist movement aims to recapture the best of historic urban design, and it‘s done much to help extricate our cities from the hy...

Now and then, you’ve probably heard people describe some interesting old house as having “good bones”.  But what do they really mean by th...

Not so long ago, a well-equipped architect might have had the following items on his drawing board: A tee square or parallel rule; a coupl...

The other day I was eating breakfast at a cozy little diner called Sam’s Log Cabin, not far from where I live. The place is pretty much wh...