News
17th-Century Log Cabin, Reputedly the Oldest in US, Is for Sale
A 17th-century home in New Jersey needs a new caretaker, and one who has $2.9 million to spend.
Architecture
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News
A Call to Save a Floating Performance Space by Louis Kahn [UPDATED]
A 50-year-old floating performance space designed by architect Louis Kahn may be sent to a Louisiana shipyard for scrap at the end of this year's tour.
Art
Icons and Oddities from the Massive Frank Lloyd Wright Archive
Through over 400 objects, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive at the Museum of Modern Art considers the great American architect's career from unexpected angles.
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News
Cease-and-Desist Letter Leaves the McMansion Hell Blog in Purgatory [UPDATED]
Kate Wagner has taken her irreverent architecture criticism blog offline after the online real estate listings aggregator Zillow accused her of violating the company's terms of use.
Books
A Guide to Architects' Mundane and Monumental Graves
The architects of our great landmarks are often buried beneath the humblest of tombstones, or have no marker at all.
Art
Exploring the New Orleans Village Where You Can Play the Buildings
Opened in the fall of 2016, the Music Box Village is a gathering of artist-created architectural instruments.
Art
A World Tour Through a Collection of Paper Architectural Models
The National Building Museum's recently acquired collection of 4,500 paper models shows an interpretation of the world in miniature, from black-and-white shtetls to nuclear power plants.
Art
Studying the Design of a 19th-Century Mental Asylum
An exhibition at the National Building Museum explores St. Elizabeths in Washington, DC, and the history of mental health architecture in the United States.
Art
The Worst McMansion Sins, From Useless Pilasters to Hellish Transom Windows
Kate Wagner's blog McMansion Hell is like a snarky DSM-IV for all that ails contemporary over-building in suburban developments.
News
From a Row of Hammocks to One Million Gravestones: An Art Collective’s Alternative Border Wall Proposals
J.M. Design Studio saw the president's call as an opportunity to challenge visions of a xenophobic future.
Art
Six Designs for Trump’s Border Wall, from Solar Panels to a Mexican-American Co-Nation
The Department of Homeland Security's call for proposals for a wall to be built along the Mexico–US border elicited hundreds of designs. Here are six of them.
Books
The Modernist Flourishes of Aging Postwar Architecture
Extra Normal features Serge Fruehauf's photographs from two decades documenting the strange and surreal details of postwar architecture in Europe.