Early this year, California-based architect sparked ire and some agreement among Las Vegas home designers and builders when he criticized the residential architectural landscape of Southern Nevada.

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...

Although some architects, when asked to write about architecture, tend either to airy abstractions or to mumbles about ...

Midcentury modern is a term that’s thrown around a lot these days, but what is it really? Midcentury-modern architecture is not simply anything that was designed and built in the middle of the 20th ...

At the end of a pitted dirt road in the woods of Wellfleet, Mass., you can smell the ocean. And perched on a grassy hill just above the dunes is the Hatch House. It's a low-slung modern home built ...

Lauren is a writer and architectural designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a writer at Forbes, she works as a freelance architectural designer specializing in residential ...

Have you ever noticed a diner, or perhaps a motel, gas station, or drive-in, that looks like it would fit in the Jetsons’ neighborhood? A confluence of car culture and the Atomic and Space Ages, ...

Palm Springs is a haven of midcentury-modern architecture, but that doesn’t mean the city is stuck in a time capsule. The style — which became popular in the U.S. in the 1940s — still commands a hefty ...

As a former filmmaker, the writer Marc Kristal is a natural storyteller, which enlivens his 18 case studies about adding contemporary additions to old houses. The examples, 11 in the United States and ...

“Black Box” is a contemporary modern family house designed by PAO studio architects and may be considered as one of the impressive examples of Nordic minimalism. This family residence is designed on 0 ...

Pushing the envelope, especially upward, was a skill of the late Portland architect James Oliver. His private residence, a six-story tower on a steeply sloped lot in Hillsdale, was constructed in 1971 ...

Burdened by kitsch and ancestral expectations, my parents rebuilt their camp in a contemporary style that frames what’s worth holding on to.