At Princeton University, an architect unites two disciplines with splashes of daylight and easy sociability.

Vittorio Lampugnani uses an unlikely material to create an atypical garage with a built-in fitness facility.

To visit Building 337 on the Novartis campus in East Hanover, New Jersey, is to walk through it with awe, something akin to what visitors to Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building must have felt a century ago.

Fumihiko Maki transports his strategy for an earlier Novartis project in Basel to a spacious suburban landscape.

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi create an uplifting gateway for a corporate campus.

Weiss/Manfredi breaks into the box, ingeniously chiseling out a variety of spaces for a new office building.

It's not easy being an ugly office building in New Jersey. Drive down any suburban stretch and these dinosaurs from the 1980s languish on the roadside, lonely reminders of a time when builders thought everyone would want to work in suburbia forever.

In an age of lightning-fast mobile devices that provide access to information with the swipe of a finger, books can seem archaic.