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With twin political and economic crises in Brazil right now, it is hardly the best time to be hosting this summer’s Olympic Games.

Australia didn’t get the memo. Its contribution to the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public Friday, is a celebration of swimming pools.

Work began today on Bajalta, a new, mixed-use development designed by SHoP architects in Tijuana, Mexico, located less than two miles south of the U.S. border.

For some, architecture has a unique ability to transpose fantasies into reality. And if you were an urbane heterosexual male in the last half of the 20th century, there weren’t many better fantasy generators than Playboy.

This morning, after a marathon night of celebrations across Philadelphia, architects (caffeine at the ready) assembled for Day Two of the 2016 AIA convention.

AIA Convention organizers set a high bar for themselves last year after president Bill Clinton kicked off the annual architecture conference.

Romaldo “Aldo” Giurgola was born in Rome, Italy, and died this week in Canberra, Australia, the site of his most famous work: a government complex surrounded by bermed earth that made it possible for visitors to walk on and around the building.

When the Philadelphia Museum of Art started to plan an exhibition about Africa, it informally surveyed visitors, asking for their general impressions of the continent.