This article was originally published on Common Edge. There’s a famous quote—it’s usually attributed to Winston Churchill—that goes, “History is written by the victors.” This cynical and largely ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Jack Sheahan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images While scandal doesn’t hit architects quite as often as, say, politicians, ...
Oh, postmodernism. You are history now. This fall, architect Michael Graves classic (wait, can you say that about postmodernism?) 1982 Portland building was added to the US National Register of ...
Put on your walking shoes and join Architectural Heritage Center docents on thought-provoking tours of Portland’s history-rich neighborhoods. The nonprofit center in Southeast Portland organizes ...
Editor’s note: We’re thrilled to publish the second of a monthly column featuring new stories about Brooklyn history and historic architecture from Brownstoner columnist Suzanne Spellen. In the ...
After Irving J. Gill accepted the job as chief designer for the development of Torrance from the new community’s developers in 1912, the renowned architect came up with ambitious plans both for its ...
Later this month, Itohan Osayimwese, chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture and a professor of urban ...
Enamored of historical building techniques, John Byers embraced California's early heritage. Born in Michigan in 1875 after the Civil War, the transplant to sunny Santa Monica understood the delicious ...
Today AD welcomes back architect Valery Augustin for a walking tour of Downtown Los Angeles, exploring its diverse architectural design. From Spanish Colonial and 1930s art deco to postmodern ...
Maybe this was a pressure-creating-diamonds situation. Somehow in the 1930s, amid the immense stresses of economic collapse, natural disaster, Olympic anxiety and the looming shadow of World War II, ...
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