Edward Keegan: It is unclear what the Chicago Architecture Biennial is shifting to

In some very obvious ways, this biennial is a bit less ambitious than some previous iterations. Its approach to the Chicago ...
Chicago Tribune

Column: Architecture is having a movie moment — but do ‘Brutalist’ and ‘Megalopolis’ make architects more than pure ego?

Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” adapted by Rand, contractually protected from studio meddling, from her 1943 bestseller about the ...
Portland Press Herald

With its architecture memo, the executive branch weighs in on what’s beautiful | Column

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...
Yahoo

A city-wide style guide: 'New Mexican' spent column inches on architectural ordinance

Jan. 5—Look north on San Francisco Street in downtown Santa Fe, and the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi comes into sharp focus. The Romanesque Revival-style cathedral, at the end of an ...
Los Angeles Times

Building Type: Introducing a weekly column on architecture

It’s easy these days to think of California as a republic unto itself, declaring its political and cultural independence at every opportunity, zigging as Donald Trump’s America zags. But the state’s ...
Los Angeles Times

Column: Harvard’s first online architecture course: Does it make the grade?

I was worried there for a minute. Who’d kidnapped K. Michael Hays and what had they done with him? I was watching a man on my computer screen who looked a lot like Hays as he gave the introductory ...
LancasterOnline

'E' is for egg and dart, a decorative pattern of ovals and arrows [architecture column]

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...
Tulsa World

Column: What is the architecture of Tulsa reflecting?

Many quotes abound regarding what architecture is or isn’t. One belief is that architecture reflects its society. The architect I. M. Pei said, “Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have ...
dbta

An Architecture or ‘Anarchytecture’ for Data?

What exactly is a data architecture? As the Zachman Framework exposed long ago, different people look for different kinds of details and documentation to answer fundamental questions about an ...
Daily Press

What a trip: Photographing a forest of architectural columns in Spain

Choosing a favorite photo from my monthlong adventure through Spain, which I returned from in May, feels almost impossible. Most of my shots came from a birding tour that started in Madrid and swept ...
LancasterOnline

'I' for ionic: Column design is one of 3 neoclassical types you’ll spot around Lancaster [architecture column]

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book, “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...