This guide takes the reader on a journey of the city's most notable buildings and, by including historical essays by important Louisvillians, the authors give the reader a complete overview of the architectural history of this beautiful southern town.
What separates good architecture from great architecture?. The difference lies in the details. The way an architect chooses to treat architectural detailing - screens and walls, doors and windows, roofs, bridges, and stairs - can transform the merely ordinary into the extraordin…
There is an almost elemental appeal in the rural fishing villages of Nova Scotia, Maine, and Newfoundland. Their intimate connection to nature, to the land, water, and (often harsh) weather; their reliance on ingenuity, on-hand materials, and craftsmanship; and their values of t…
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Situated on idyllic Taylors Island, off the coast of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, Loblolly House inaugurates a new, more efficient way of building. Through the use of state-of-the-art building information modeling, the architects were able to streamline the design-build process. T…
This is an imaginative tour through the history and afterlife of Vladimir Tatlin's legendary but unbuilt Monument to the Third International of 1920. Boym traces the vicissitudes of Tatlin's Tower from its reception in the 1920s to its privileged recall in 'the reservoir of unof…