Amazing architecture

Architecture is meant to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. When you look at a structure, you can distinguish these two ends but they cannot be separated, and the relative weight each of them carry can vary widely. Plus, every society has its own, unique relationship to the natural world and its architecture usually reflects that as well, allowing people from other places to learn about their environment, as well as…

Of all Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt designs, a snub from Wright's adopted home state of 25 years for its Capitol building still reverberates with this resident's commentary: "What could be more ridiculous than for Arizona to go on record before the world and our own descendants as having rejected Frank Lloyd Wright as an architect?” Find out why Arizona never got its Capitol from America's most famous architect.

Image 6 of 25 from gallery of Ribbon Chapel / Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP. Photograph by Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners Inc

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You can tell a lot about a society and its culture by looking at its architecture.

Joseph Maria Olbrich was chosen by the duke Erns Ludwig Von Essen to design an artist colony after the success of the Secession Exhibition Hall in 1897. The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony was a creative utopian where artists would work and live to create some exhibition every few years. Olbrich designed the main building but also […]

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A new book surveys the Catalan architect’s oeuvre, and the many inspirations that went into creating his defining aesthetic

The Netherlands has two kinds of architecture — the classic canal houses that you’ll see in every Dutch city and then the impressive, too-mind-blowing-to-be-real pinnacles of modern buildings that you’ll find in the city of Rotterdam. Rotterdam is a place where new ideas are born one day and turned into…