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Pierre Chareau made a lasting name for himself in the annals of architectural history with one seminal work, the Maison de Verre in Paris, completed in 1932.

Visit any prosperous city these days, particularly in the U.S., and here’s what you’ll see: an abundance of housing on the rise.

America is having a Frank Capra moment.

In the 1980s, the owner of Newsweek, Katharine Graham, reviewing plans to renovate the headquarters of the magazine, where I worked, questioned the necessity of private offices for the dozens of writers and editors.

The 2016 Biennale, in response to a raft of global problems, included few American architects but a wider American influence.

As a final act of vandalism, the vintage mid-century furnishings of the legendary restaurant are to be sold in July.

Reflecting on the impact of the architect’s visionary work and larger-than-life persona.

Urban theorist Jane Jacobs was born 100 years ago, but her ideas are as vital as ever.

When Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was published 50 years ago, Vincent Scully announced in the introduction that it was “probably the most important writing on the making of architecture since Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture” of 1923.