“Form follows function” is a maxim many modern architects swear by. For the designers of these flashy and usually pointless structures, one part of that equation was left out. In ...

But Gehry's architecture is truly exceptional ... as designers embraced new pronouncements. For example, by combining "form follows function" with "ornament is a crime" and "less is more ...

Many examples of Brutalist architecture still stand in the United States, including the Litchfield Towers in Pittsburgh (1963); One Police Plaza in New York City (1973); the Geisel Library in San ...

A new book by photographer Michel Arnaud shows some of the best examples of adaptive reuse ... or repurposing existing buildings for new functions—has never been more urgent.

the architecture of the sauna is interesting because it gives us lessons related to efficiency and the beauty of simplicity. These are generally very basic structures with a clear function ...

“He argued that modern architecture came into existence in the 19th century when the modern metropolis created new functions and new typologies that never existed before—for example, the stock ...

Habitat 2020 is a future forward example of biomimetic architecture that fuses high-tech ideas with basic cellular functions to create ‘living’ structures that operate like natural organisms.