For thousands of years, stone was the go-to material for building everything from homes to monuments, many of which still stand today. Yet, in the 20th century, stone fell out of favor, replaced by ...

Participants will examine how collaborative, commons-based approaches can create more responsible and accessible architecture, from reimagining traditional materials with modern technologies to ...

The Theater of Marcellus, finished about 13 B.C., was plundered for architectural material after it fell out of use in the A.D. 4th century.

As an external layer of one material covering another, façade cladding systems are made of all sorts of metals, rubber, silicone or bricks for protecting the exterior and optimizing the building ...

Continuing our Building with Cob series, we've put together an overview of cob and other traditional earthen building ...

To truly understand what it costs to build a modern farmhouse, it’s important to look at current construction data and housing trends.

Complementing the building’s existing materials –bricks, wood and stone– Freiluft Architektur converts an old barn and hayloft into a new farmhouse by pouring a considerable amount of concrete.

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.

Postmodern architecture is a style of building design that emerged in the ’70s and ’80s as a reaction against the dogmas and ideals of modernism and the international style.

Along the way, we’ve resorted to ways of building that were introduced to our continent when it was colonized. Concrete is viewed as modern, and clay dismissed as the poor man’s material.

There's no end in sight to the building boom on college campuses in Houston, adding a flurry of new, modernist buildings to campuses that began with traditional architecture 75 to 100 or more ...