The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...

Architects at the office of Mahmoud Riad looking over a maquette of the League of Arab States Building. Image © Cairo Since 1900 This article inaugurates a new ...

The dearth of literature on African architecture has long been a source of frustration for the continent’s design community. The last decade, however, has seen a gradual change, as young designers ...

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) Office Building, New Delhi, India (1978–80), designed by architect Kuldip Singh and engineer Mahendra Raj. Photograph by Randhir Singh, courtesy ...

Richard Neutra is considered to be one of the world’s most prominent modernist architects. He was born in Austria but spent the majority of his career working in Southern California. Neutra’s ...

Kuukuwa Manful's PhD at SOAS, University of London was part of the African State Architecture project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s ...

It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...

Modernism Week in Palm Springs, underway now, is the annual holy grail of modernist design weeks that celebrates mid-century architecture, design, and culture from 1946 to 1973, with a FOMO-worthy ...

One of Palm Springs' most beloved events is marking 20 years of mid-century modern celebrations this month. Modernism Week, one of the world's most popular architecture festivals, began in Palm ...