The world is awash in glitzy buildings that attempt to shock-and-awe their way to the top, but most of these expensive, unsubtle projects have also been uninspiring, write Carlo Ratti and Antoine Picon.
Looking at a handful of projects from the 1920s through 1940s, Suzanne Stephens traces shifting attitudes toward tall buildings in architectural criticism.
As an increasing number of Postmodern buildings face the threat of demolition, architect Robert A. M. Stern assembles a list of 15 "landmarks-in-waiting."
A book examines Yale University as a former incubator for architects and designers—Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen among them—who shared a “penchant for conflating the past, present, and future.”