Art
Even the Giants Fall: Photographs of Brutalist Homes in Decay
Just before they were turned to rubble, Chris Mottalini photographed Paul Rudolph-designed homes in their final decay.
Architecture
Art
Ghost Buildings and the Inadvertent Beauty of Destruction
Sometimes when one building comes down, the ghost of its architecture is left embedded on its neighbor. These "ghost buildings" as they're sometimes called, remain as an unintentional texture of memory in the destruction.
Art
A Museum's New Light: Renzo Piano Communes With Louis Kahn
FORT WORTH, Texas — The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, arguably already has one of the best museum buildings in the world. The Louis Kahn-designed structure, with its rows of vaulted ceilings in concrete and celebrated "silvery" light gives the displayed art a unique monumentality, whether
Art
The Water Gardens of Otherworldly Modernism
FORT WORTH, Texas —Some Modernist landscapes are so futuristic, so weirdly alien in their urban surroundings, they look like sets for a sci-fi movie. In the case of the "Fort Worth Water Gardens" designed by Philip Johnson with partner John Burgee, the immense shapes of concrete that rise up topogra
Art
A Look Inside BRIC House, a New Arts Center in the Booming Downtown Brooklyn Scene
This month, multidisciplinary nonprofit BRIC opened their 40,000-square-foot space in downtown Brooklyn that unites their programs in visual art, performance, and media under one roof.
Art
Radically Rethinking the Architecture of Death
What happens when you die? Well, in a literal way, what happens to everyone else. You're likely to have a traditional, costly, funeral, and then a small slot of land in a quiet sprawl of cemetery will be yours.
Art
The Challenges of Preserving Modernist Landscapes
While even the most coldly Brutalist buildings have found their proponents, the modernist landscapes that were built in plazas and public space in the mid-century have been slower to be embraced for preservation. Yet there’s an increasing dialogue of how, and why, modernist landscape architecture should be preserved.
Art
An Architecturally Significant NYC Building for Each Day of the Month
Want to get to know New York City architecture better, from its 18th century past to modular present? Each day of October a city building is being featured, with a tour to take you into its design and history.
News
Get to Know Your Modernist Architecture Neighbors this Weekend
This Saturday, the US chapter of Docomomo, a nonprofit dedicated to "documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement" is hosting Tour Day 2013 across the country.
Books
The Mobius Strip Melding Sci-fi and Architecture
The futures that are built through architecture and the futures that are constructed through science fiction aren't always galaxies apart.
Art
This Is Your Chance to Explore Cool Modernist Apartments in NYC
Starting tomorrow, the public is being invited into some of the most intriguing modernist private residences in New York City.
Art
Six NYC Places Most in Danger of Disappearing This Fall
As anyone who spends a few months watching a New York neighborhood knows, things change. Buildings disappear or suddenly spring up with glass and steel towers. This fall, a few of the city's more interesting places are in danger of disappearing completely, including a mid-century futurist airline te