Photo: Carol M. Highsmith For the past half-century, UNESCO has identified and helped encourage protections for 1,223 World Heritage sites around the world – including 27 in the United States.

Early 20th-century architects searched for the appropriate expression of the skyscraper as a new building type. This “proud and soaring thing,” in Louis Sullivan’s words, should emphasize its ...

This fascinating book showcases 100 standout buildings from 1914 onwards, representing the broad variety of 20th century British architecture. The structures celebrated in this book include the ...

Although architecture media largely focus on design reception, can they also affect design conception? Amanda Reeser Lawrence’s book The Architecture of Influence confronts some of these questions ...

Midcentury-modern architecture is not simply anything that was designed and built in the middle of the 20th century, but in fact an architectural style with a defined set of principles and influences.

While the city’s early 20th century development now figures into the National Register and local historic districts, protecting Charleston’s mid-20th century architecture has been placed on ...

The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright For the past half-century, UNESCO has identified and helped encourage protections for 1,223 World Heritage sites around the world – including ...