Between stacks of rolling flat files, Silvia Perea slides open a drawer and flashes a smile. “This, let me show you,” she says, “is a house made by Rudolph Schindler in 1922. Born in Vienna, Schindler ...

Dusk view of flat-roofed house upon girders, thrust out from hillside. All-glass walls reveal bright interior with modern furniture. Although “midcentury modern” has evolved into a highly popular and ...

Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men. With Overlooked, we’re adding the stories of remarkable people whose deaths went unreported in The Times. In one of ...

Between stacks of rolling flat files, Silvia Perea slides open a drawer and flashes a smile. “This, let me show you,” she says, “is a house made by Rudolph Schindler in 1922.” Born in Vienna, ...

Here you will see a Pekinese pagoda made of fresh and crackly peanut brittle —there a snow-white marshmallow igloo —there a toothsome pink nougat in the Florentine manner, rich and delicious with ...

“Hedonistic sustainability” is an appealing rebrand of sustainable design. It says that sustainability is not just unsightly banks of solar panels. It means that sustainable elements and essential ...

For one of Julia Morgan’s first commissions in 1903, the magnificent El Campanil bell tower at Mills College in Oakland, the soft-spoken young architect had to deal with a male contractor who wasn’t ...

Introduction : the story, the letter, the building -- Origins : Millard Sheets, Howard Ahmanson, and architecture before the letter -- Creating the Millard Sheets studio, creating the Home Savings ...

AN spoke with architects and landscape architects in California about efforts to rebuild after the recent wildfires. (Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) AN surveyed nine top Los Angeles architecture ...

In California, the Governor’s Forest Management Task Force and the Office of Planning and Research announced the winners of their first-ever competition designed to highlight a category of engineered ...

Rice was in her early 30s when she planned the civic center of Rancho Santa Fe, California, 20 miles northeast of the city, and designed many of the homes tucked into the surrounding rolling hills and ...