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  Early predecessor of indirect lighting: Limelight spotlight, used to illuminate the front stage area of theaters until the end of the nine...

Heaven help the pedestrian in shopping centers like this one— which unfortunately are typical across the nation. A few blocks from my ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza, built 2580 to 2560 BC. Architect/master builder: Hemiunu In the past, an architect was just what the Latin ...

Architect Carr Jones managed to conjure lyrical homes out of castoff materials—practicing green architecture long before that term was ...

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

The iPhone screen, with its idiot-proof icons, builds on the long evolution of Apple's graphic user interface. For close to a dec...