Read an excerpt of former RECORD editor-in-chief Robert Ivy’s introduction to a new book cowritten with Cathleen McGuigan and Peter MacKeith.

Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier, rounder ...

Sustainable architecture refers less to how a building looks and more to how it performs; it’s a way of building that considers the full life cycle of a structure, from building materials to daily use ...

Architecture is the design of spaces for human occupation. Despite architects’ skill in designing spaces to influence human behavior there often is a shortfall in anticipating and reacting to ...

Oct Art Center, Photo by Xia Zhi. Image Courtesy of Zhu Pei Studio Yangliping Performaning Art Center (c) Jin Weiqi. Image Courtesy of Zhu Pei Studio Vladimir Belogolovsky: I love your quote: “A ...

The Haussmann style of architecture, which is also sometimes described as Haussmannian, is the classic architecture that has defined modern-day Paris, and is probably what you think of when you ...

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Chicago architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham’s exhortation to “make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood” continues to motivate the cultural, educational and commercial ...