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Philip Johnson’s Glass House Hosts Yayoi Kusama’s “Narcissus Garden”

The kinetic sculpture consists of 1,300 reflective, steel spheres that will float in a nearby pond on the 49-acre site in New Canaan, Conn.

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The “Future of Suburbia,” according to MIT

The Center for Advanced Urbanism's new research initiative is long overdue but doesn't yet strike the right note.

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The Concert Hall, Reimagined

Performance spaces today are designed to be stand-alone icons, but that's not how we always designed these buildings.

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The Bargain That Revived Bell Labs

Eero Saarinen's landmark facility in New Jersey is being redeveloped as a New Urbanist hub, but with one significant twist.

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MoMA Considers What Makes a Modern Interior

“How Should We Live?” looks at spaces designed from the 1920s to the 1950s and the external trends that shaped them.

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The Harvard Graduate School of Design Announces its 2017 Loeb Fellows

The nine professionals selected this year address politics within refugee camps, social inequality in the Midwest, urban agriculture, design standards in Ethiopia, and more.

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Happy 149th Birthday, Frank Lloyd Wright

In honor of the Taliesin founder and Prairie School pioneer, we round up the latest goings on around his legacy.

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MoMA Announces 2017 Frank Lloyd Wright Retrospective

The New York museum will host a major exhibition of the architect’s work in honor of what would have been his 150th birthday.

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Six Events to Check Out This Week at the London Festival of Architecture

The 2016 line-up features more than 200 events, including exhibitions, talks, and more throughout London. Here are six happenings that you shouldn't miss.

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Listen: Carol Ross Barney on Urbanism in Chicago

In the latest episode of Newcity's podcast, design editor Ben Schulman and architecture journalist Zach Mortice talk with the Chicago-based architect about the resurgence of development in the...

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Olafur Eliasson Creates Site-Specific Installations for Versailles

Th installation artist’s outdoor and indoor pieces take on different forms of water on the grounds and illuminate the interiors of the French estate.

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Tippet Rise Art Center Opens to the Public

The new Montana site boasts several performance spaces and large-scale art installations on the 11,500-acre ranch.

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'Floating Piers' by Christo and Jeanne-Claude Readies for its Public Debut

The expansive work spanning Italy’s Lake Iseo has been covered with a radiant orange cloth and is ready for the expected half-million visitors to tread across it.

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What is the Architectural Response to Orlando?

Aaron Betsky reflects upon the tragic mass shooting in Orlando, and suggests a ban on weapons as opposed to more fortified architecture.

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ArchitectChats: Episode 7 with Gretchen Pfaehler on Historic Preservation

The chair of Washington, D.C.'s Historic Preservation Review Board discusses history and identity in preservation.

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Q+A: David Mohney on the Future of Michael Graves’ Warehouse

The dean of the Michael Graves College discusses the pending purchase of the late architect's Princeton, N.J., live-in workspace, and how Kean University plans to utilize it for students.

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Beats by the Adjaye Brothers

British-Ghanian musician Peter Adjaye decided to turn his architect brother David Adjaye's built works into a ten-piece composition released on a limited edition double EP.

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The $2.4 Million Gift to Architecture Students in the South

Alfred Aydelott, who with his wife Hope was responsible for one of the largest educational endowments by an architect, led a complex life filled with outbursts, grudges, and a medical miracle.

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Postcard from the 2016 Tiny House Jamboree

The second annual gathering in Colorado Springs, Colo., brought together more than 60,000 impassioned attendees and many memorable dwellings.

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The Last Howard Johnson’s Standing

The chain used consistent design elements to market reliable food service to customers.

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