Indirect lighting makes the ceiling vault appear to hover. (Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, 1931) Remember the sumptuous and exotic inte...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'll be away this week, so I'm reprising one of Architext's most Googled posts below.  “Won’t it leak?”  T...

Author's note: Storybook Style , the 2001 book I co-authored with photographer Douglas Keister, is being republished by Schiffer in a r...

Every so often, some moldering architectural idea rises up from the dead and come back for an encore.  It’s especially common these days, w...

Check out any visual medium, whether large screen or small, and chances are you’ll come across a show with fictional lawyers doing brillian...

Sacramento's historic origins lie along the lovely American River. Like so many American cities, Sacramento, California was long a...

The late architect Louis Kahn, a man known for the exquisite ambiguity of his design philosophies, once began a lecture thus: “Light. . .i...