History has a habit of identifying the dominant architectural movements of a time in very broad strokes: Beaux Arts, Victorian, Art Deco, Modernist, Post-Modern, and so on. Nuance is sacrificed in the ...

The Aesthetic Movement was one of the most important social movements of the late 19th century, yet most people are not aware of it at all. As far as our Brooklyn neighborhoods are concerned, we see ...

Choreographer Deborah Jinza Thayer has an unusual sense of humor, a roving intellect, and a propensity for putting dancers inside all manner of architectural contraptions. Her company is called ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Art Nouveau, or "new art" in French, is an architectural and artistic movement that emerged in the late ...

A revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness Usually associated with Mies and Le Corbusier, the Modern Movement was instrumental in ...

According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the number of earthquakes per year has seen an overall increase in frequency. What does this mean for the built environment? This ...

No more silence. No more waiting. No more tolerance for discrimination, harassment or abuse.—Time's Up. In late January, I was on a panel of architectural journalists at a conference at the Yale ...

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