A new book by GSAPP Dean Emerita Amale Andraos and Dan Wood offers readers an overview of their recent design work.

A critic once remarked that Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie writes so simply that a cat or a dog can understand her. It was meant as a compliment and taken as such. In her new book she ...

We don't do a lot of "book reviewing" at BD+C and MULTIFAMILY Design+Construction, but I want to make an exception for Buildings Don't Lie, by Henry Gifford. Gifford is a mechanical engineer in New ...

In a world beset by troubles, supertall buildings, which measure from 984 ft to 1,968 ft, would not seem to rate high on a list of priority concerns. The 173 completed supertalls—yes, there are that ...

Dr. Joseph B. Touma's father was an architect, so maybe the noted Huntington ear and balance expert comes by his interest in buildings naturally. But whatever the source of his interest, old buildings ...

A building is not, of course, a living thing but buildings can die and a fascinating, indeed haunting, new book offers us a graveyard in black and white. “Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days ...

CHILLICOTHE — In her youth, Melody Lapczynski spent a few summers exploring historic buildings and uncovering forgotten memories. Although she didn't know it at the time, those summers would go on to ...

Not long ago, the Danish toy giant Lego released a line marketed exclusively to architects, and much of the architectural community online lamented it for being bland and monochromatic. But you don’t ...

Not too long ago I was at a lecture given by a well-known futurist who proudly described (to a room full of heritage professionals) how he insulated his 200 year old home with seven inches of ...

NORTH ADAMS — The Quinn building had never attracted the attention of photographer Nicholas Whitman. But, that wasn’t unusual. The blocky, two-story brick building at 275 River St. hadn’t drawn the ...