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installation view of Tropical Modernism
Hidden Figures

Tropical Modernism reexamines the legacy of the 20th-century movement in Ghana and India

exhibition visible from street outside the Boston Architectural College
A Sesquicentennial Affair

Shepley Bulfinch celebrates 150 years of practice with a new exhibition at the Boston Architectural College

portrait of Vincent Scully
Celebrity Academic

A biography of Vincent Scully documents the historian’s life, work, and American architecture from the postwar period to the present

Bernard Tschumi drawing that will be on view in MIT Museum
Drawing After Modernism

MIT Museum exhibits original works by Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki, Bernard Tschumi, and other postmodernists this spring

1935–2024

Kurt Forster, scholar and former Getty Research Institute and CCA director, dies at 89

1941–2023

Anthony Vidler, educator, historian, architect, and philosopher, dies at 82

Au Revoir, Jean-Louis

The architecture world remembers Jean-Louis Cohen (1949–2023)

1949–2023

World-renowned architecture professor Jean-Louis Cohen dies at 74

black and white photograph of angular building
A “Modern Eclectic”

Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller celebrates the output of this multihyphenate creative

interior of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Theory of the Generous Void

Pier Paolo Tamburelli’s new book explores why Bramante’s work matters today

an illustration of a never-built soviet building
Architect of the State

A new book explores the life and career of Boris Iofan, the Jewish Soviet architect who designed for Stalin’s regime

photograph depicting a smiling man and his two sons in the front of a modern midcentury house in Houston, john s. chase
Model Home

In 1959, John S. Chase, Texas’s first licensed Black architect, laid claim to one of the state’s most radical houses

Interior of Pittsburgh's Penn-Union Station
Steel City Gems (Hold the Fries)

Virtually tour Pittsburgh’s architectural treasures with the Carnegie Museum of Art

historic home on a hill
All Hail the Queen

Virginia Savage McAlester, preservationist and best-selling author, dies at 76

Conservation of Architectural Heritage (CAH) 4th Edition

Conservation of Architectural Heritage (CAH) 4th Edition

Spring Home Tour: “Historic Homes and Gorgeous Gardens”

A graphical representation of the design and refinement process from Times of Creative Destruction.
Burn It Down, Build It Up

Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre track the seismic shifts in post-war architecture

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