Much before humans constructed their first permanent shelters, they discovered the protective power of animal hides as a barrier against harsh environmental conditions. This fundamental principle of ...

The researchers hope to understand what life sounded like for Inca peoples in the Andes.

Out with the old, in with the new — Irving R. Newhouse Building, that is. The former 25,084-square-foot Newhouse building that housed offices for state senators and staff, built in 1934, was supposed ...

Achim Menges uses computer-guided techniques designed to make buildings more sustainable and affordable. Humanity has long sought to tame wood into something more predictable. Sawmills manufacture ...

The design team of Baukunst and Bruther describe Frame, which rises 100 feet above a new media park in Brussels, as being ...

While Harvard’s campus boasts myriad architectural styles, very few buildings themselves exhibit multiple architectural styles as dramatically — and beautifully — as the Harvard Art Museums. Nestled ...

Historical building methodsEarly Swiss mountain huts used locally available materials by necessity. Stone from nearby quarries provided walls with thermal mass to moderate temperature swings. Timber ...

In Los Angeles’s Chinatown, LEVER Architecture has refashioned a windowless warehouse and its subterranean parking garage into 4.5 floors of office space, where the connection between indoors and ...

This rendering shows a proposed six-story building that would be constructed on the University of Kansas campus to service the KU school of architecture and design. The building would be built behind ...

I have lived in the Yakima area for 16 years, nearly all of my life. But I have barely noticed its hidden architecture. I define "hidden architecture" as buildings within a city or town that have a ...