When people mistake photographs of your physical prototypes for computer renderings, you know you’ve achieved something amazing. That’s exactly what happened when Michael Hansmeyer showed off his ...

The Vista series architectural column is a relocatable communications closet that can be customized to match the design of any space. The columns are available in two sizes, including the Point5 ...

In 1919 a young Dutch architect named Michel de Klerk designed a large, experimental apartment complex called Het Schip, intended to provide hourly wage earning families in Amsterdam with a pleasant, ...

Casting a critical eye at banks that resembled Roman temples, the great Chicago architect Louis Sullivan famously wrote nearly 120 years ago that their bankers should wear togas and sandals, and ...

The Italianate style may be more American than Italian when it comes to measuring its popularity between 1850 and 1890. Considered a “picturesque style” for its reference to the Old World and Italian ...

Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” adapted by Rand, contractually protected from studio meddling, from her 1943 bestseller about the ...

I was worried there for a minute. Who’d kidnapped K. Michael Hays and what had they done with him? I was watching a man on my computer screen who looked a lot like Hays as he gave the introductory ...

Before 1930, Lancastrians did their grocery shopping at the farmers market in their respective neighborhoods, and in many cases, they did this several times a week. Similar to the points on a compass, ...

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