Architecture books can take you places, allowing you to visit fascinating buildings around the world without the hassle of getting there. The German-born architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) helped ...

London-based publishing company MACK has long been known for its ethereal collections of art, photography, and academic books; now the publisher can add architecture books to that list. Starting this ...

Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy, by Mark Foster Gage. Routledge, 131 pages, $44.95 (paper). Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, ...

In the new Phaidon book “Concrete Architecture,” Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...

William Stout Architectural Books carries over 20,000 titles on two floors in the fields of architecture, art, urban planning, graphic and industrial design, furniture and interior design, and ...

Submitted photo Globally known photographer Iwan Baan shot images for “American Modern: Architecture, Community, Columbus Indiana.” Call it a spire of what a city aspires to. The pointed top of the ...

A relatively new-on-the-scene Bay Area nonprofit has announced its acquisition of an enduring San Francisco institution that has served as a mecca for architecture- and-design-minded bibliophiles for ...

Historically, drawing has been the lingua franca of architects, but today, software reigns. 3D modeling has displaced hand-drawing and photorealist renderings are the standardthe only way to meet ...

The standards for classifying good or terrible architecture are usefulness and beauty, or what we commonly refer to as practicality and aesthetics. However, practicality might quickly direct us toward ...

Filippo Brunelleschi is as familiar as he is elusive. Known most of all for his imposing and magnificent dome on the Florence Cathedral, much of the information surrounding his accomplishments has ...