“I’ve always been interested in the ways women have shaped the built environment,” says Molly Lester, an architectural historian and associate director of the Urban Heritage Project at the University ...

Throughout history, drawing has been the essential medium of conveying architectural ideas, operating on multiple levels, from the practical application of serving the construction process to the more ...

For centuries, Western women have been held up as the sacred keepers of the hearth and home. By the time we get to the late 18th and 19th centuries, a middle- to upper-class woman in America was ...

Phaidon’s new tome encapsulates human history through the drawings of its architects, whether they scratched their designs in clay or sent them via WhatsApp. Roughly 4,150 years ago, in modern-day ...

AS A STEADFAST champion of straightforward simplicity — in architecture, and in life — Audrey Van Horne undoubtedly would appreciate it if we would just hurry up and get to the point already. Facts ...

Just before the turn of the 20th century, a young architect in Philadelphia emerged as an in-demand designer of prominent homes and public buildings. A contractor once remarked that he “had never ...

Josh Lewandowski has been doodling architectural nonsense almost every day since September, “just ’cause.” Is there value in spending time on something with no practical application whatsoever? Josh ...

Visionary London architect Zaha Hadid, renowned for her swooping, strongly sculpted buildings and for being the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, her field’s highest honor, has died ...

Who expected that Notre-Dame Cathedral would emerge from the debris and lift its spire once more over the roofs of Paris, just five years after the fire of 2019? That it could do so is due in no small ...