Esther McCoy documented the growth of architecture in L.A. from her bungalow in Santa Monica.
Architectural historian Victoria Newhouse's new book studies how sites for sound have and have not changed compared to their historical ancestors in the last few decades.
Design firm Generator Studio builds a photovoltaic installation for the 'World's Fair' exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins. Through Aug. 19.
Last year's Avenue, displayed at the AIA National Convention, is now being put together as a house in New Orleans.
In the 1850s, the political climate was just as partisan as now, when politicians helped design and construct the U.S. Capitol Building.
As part of the Pacific Standard Time consortium of exhibits, the Chinese American Museum highlights four architects who helped build L.A. Through June 3.
The National Building Museum curator talks about a new exhibition that looks back at the influence of the Progressive Architecture Awards.
Ettore Sotsass is getting two retrospectives in Berlin. Through June 23; through June 9.
Alexandra Lange, an architectural critic and a writer for Design Observor, teaches us all to take a second look at buildings in her primer on reading and writing architecture criticism.
On Tuesday May 8, at 7 p.m., bidders will have a rare chance at acquiring one of Alexander Calder’s mobiles. Christies will auction off one red and one white mobile that architect Eliot Noyes commissioned from Calder for his home in New Canaan, Conn., where he had set up his practice in the 1940s.
Frank Gehry, after building the Walt Disney Concert Hall, now sketches out set designs for an opera inside the hall. May 18-26.
An architecture professor describes eleven architecture and urban environments that have that elusive authentic, sense-of-place quality--with lessons to be learned in each.
Artist Maya Lin makes recreates rivers, seas, and mountain topography out of silver, plywood, and other materials. Through May 13.
Alcatraz has a history of intrigue, but it also has a history of architectural styles, as documented in a new book by San Francisco architect Donald McDonald.
The Hirshhorn in D.C. will get a video makeover by artist Doug Aitken this spring. Through May 13.
Frank Lloyd Wright's main photographer, now 95, exhibits his work at the Julius Shulman Institute. Through April 25.
The CCA pairs photos and sketches of Macchu Picchu as yet another moment of nostalgia for the drawing days of architecture. Through April 29.
The photographer tells us what it was really like to be Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite.
Baghdad's once-flourishing architectural landscape is documented for Western eyes at the New York Center for Architecture. Through May 5.
A new San Francisco exhibit showcases Buckminster Fuller's projects as well as Bay Area projects inspired by him. Through July 29.