For the newest installment in its colorful “Fifty” book series, the London Design Museum takes on the world of contemporary architecture. In Fifty Modern Buildings That Changed the World ...

“For me, modern architecture is most succinctly summarized by Peter Blake, who was the former chief curator of architecture design at MoMA, in the introduction to a book he wrote in the 1970s ...

100 Contemporary Brick Buildings, a new architectural tome from Taschen, opens with a quote from Mies Van Der Rohe, taken from the New York Herald Tribune of 28 June 1959: ‘Architecture starts when ...

Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Condé Nast International to create 'Sensual Purity, Gorden Wagener On Design', a book exploring the marque's design philosophy and modern luxury.

100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings showcases some of them.. It may seem quintessentially modern, but concrete has ancient origins; the Roman Pantheon, for example, is mostly made from it.

At first glance, Ana Francisco Sutherland’s Modern Buildings: Blackheath and Greenwich might seem to be very tightly focused. The monograph, looking at the post-war architecture of a single south ...

1100 Architect, a Frankfurt- and New York-based firm, formed Perry World House from corner of the Sloan cottage grafted onto a highly contemporary new building. University Architect David Hollenberg ...

But many instances of contemporary architecture can be seen on much shorter buildings, like Music City Center's green roof and guitar-sloped design. Antioch's Tanger Outlets Nashville, expected to ...

Base isolation design means the foot of the building is not fastened to the ground. That lets the building either slide as the ground moves beneath it or rock slightly but maintain its integrity.