Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a Contributing Writer at Forbes Global Properties. This article is more than 3 years old. The striking architectural home in ...

The bold promise of Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, a sprawling volume edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder, is written across its spine in inch-tall lettering: “A theory of ...

The living room at Kepes Cottage, a 1946 design by Marcel Breuer for Gyorgy Kepes, which he later replicated for his own Breuer family cottage. (All images courtesy Monacelli Press) The sense that ...

Tennessee is well-known for its lush rolling landscapes, less so for its urban skylines. That reputation is changing in Nashville, the state's most rapidly growing city by far, as downtown developers ...

During their university years, architects acquire a wide range of skills apart from learning to design buildings. Some of these include creative problem solving, project management, high attention to ...

Throughout much of the 20th century, a unique interdisciplinary conversation unfolded at Yale concerning the role of time and history in modern art and architecture. It was an ongoing discussion among ...

How did modern architecture develop to its present state? Three new monographs trace that path, even if they don’t cover every direction the field has taken over the last century. Mies van der Rohe: ...

In his Louisiana Channel interview, Zhu Pei reflects on architecture as art, rooted in nature, culture, and inventive, poetic ...

Why the beauty and inventiveness of contemporary masonry in Iran has captured Western audiences. The United States expends untold amounts of money and human capital to keep its citizens uninformed ...

The past year saw an abundance of new books of interest to Canadian architects—many of them authored by Canadian designers.

Spokane's skyline boasts three iconic buildings. The Pavilion. Gifted to the city by the United States government in preparation for Expo '74, the cable structure is unlike any other in Spokane. The ...