Museum curators tend to stay behind the scenes, especially when high-profile artists are involved. But the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, which runs through October 19, has been so lavishly praised that its curator, Scott Rothkopf, couldn’t stay out of the spotlight if he tried.

A pop-up theater assembled inside a giant ballroom brings new scale to portability.

As a building material, wood's appeal has endured at least as long as humans have been constructing shelters. However, since the industrial revolution, the range of potential building materials has expanded, putting wood at a disadvantage—until now, that is.

A mixed-use building experiments with an engineered wood material that is gaining traction in Europe.

Vittorio Lampugnani uses an unlikely material to create an atypical garage with a built-in fitness facility.

To visit Building 337 on the Novartis campus in East Hanover, New Jersey, is to walk through it with awe, something akin to what visitors to Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building must have felt a century ago.

Fumihiko Maki transports his strategy for an earlier Novartis project in Basel to a spacious suburban landscape.