Moshe Safdie is an extraordinarily innovative architect who is probably most widely known for his Habitat 67 that he designed for the World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada in 1967, which revolutioniz ...
Read ArticleJune 2 celebrates our Gem of the Month in London, and it also happens to be the birthday of the architect, Norman Foster. Foster’s designs greatly changed the skyline of London in the “mod ...
Read ArticleClarence Holbrook Carter was a painter primarily known for his depictions of American life in the period between world wars (1918-1940). He is particularly well known for his riveting views of rural A ...
Read ArticleOn this date, the McKim Building of the Boston Public Library was opened to the public. Called by the city the “palace of the people”, the library was the first public building in the Beau ...
Read ArticleStephen Holl is part of the generation of architects in the late 1900s who began focusing on a more humanistic approach to designing buildings for the Earth’s ever-growing major cities. He combi ...
Read ArticleJürgen Mayer is part of a generation of young 21st century architect/designers who create forms that respect the surrounding environment, as well as paying tribute to the history of the locale. ...
Read ArticleIf any one architect’s body of work sums up the development of the International Style, it would be that of Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier filled the world with elegant, geometric and organic, l ...
Read ArticleFrancesco Borromini was one of a trio of Italian architects (along with Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669) and Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)) who helped define the Italian Baroque style in architectu ...
Read ArticleHispanic Heritage Month celebration was initially celebrated for a week starting in 1968, and was expanded to a month in 1988. The great ancient civilizations of Mexico, Mesoamerica and South America ...
Read ArticleMichael Graves was a leading proponent of revival of ornament and classical forms in architecture that was a key to the Postmodernism movement in architecture and design. Out the window was the Intern ...
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