A new book reveals the untold stories and little-known characters behind one of the most recognizable mid-century modern homes in the world.

Beginning with a group of 23 Chinese architects who studied at Penn in the 1920s, the show looks back at a century of mutual influences.

“The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947 – 1985,” on view at the Museum of Modern Art, ignores the failings of modernist design and planning.

In a time when building construction is contributing to multiple global crises, the American-Israeli designer posits that nature has much to teach us.