Humans are psychologically wired to prefer curved, soft forms, which our brains associate with safety, calm, and nature. In contrast, sharp, angular (or rectilinear) designs can trigger a mild, ...

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...

FOR the last century American domestic architecture has been a series of fads. After the end of the Georgian tradition, houses were successively designed to look like Greek temples, mediæval ...

Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring traditional and classical architecture the "preferred" and "default" style for all major new federal buildings in the United States, ...