Excerpt: ‘Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism’, by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy. Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism, by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy.

A version of the three R’s all too rare today—religion, reproduction and residential construction—flourished madly in this country after World War II, so it shouldn’t be surprising that new houses of ...

Black architects who helped shape the modern architecture movement have often been overlooked. One effort preserves the structures they designed... Long ignored, Black modernist architects get ...

In the interwar decades, American architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women. But as architectural historians Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy recount in their book Women ...

These are the building aesthetics that have come to represent the nation ...

Cesar A. Cruz is an architectural historian and educator. He has taught architectural history and theory, building structures, and design in Illinois, Indiana, and New Mexico. In August 2016 he ...

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

In its inaugural year of 2023, the initiative awarded funding to preserve eight significant buildings, including the Charles McAfee Swimming Pool and Pool House in Wichita, Kansas, and the Watts ...

Ten must-know texts and aesthetic philosophies of the 20th-century European architecture and design movement. By Julia Halperin The Breuer Building (1966) in New York by Marcel Breuer, originally ...

It’s never been afraid to play fast and loose and big. In the beginning, there were seemingly infinite natural resources and the violent consolidation of one-third of a continent under a single flag.