Walk through any major city today and you're surrounded by glass towers, concrete blocks, and repetitive facades that stretch endlessly into the sky. They look efficient, even impressive sometimes.

Building facades are no longer simple exterior walls. In modern architecture, the facade is a highly engineered system that controls light, heat, safety, and visual identity. It is the first element ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective ...

There's no end in sight to the building boom on college campuses in Houston, adding a flurry of new, modernist buildings to campuses that began with traditional architecture 75 to 100 or more years ...