International architecture and urban design practice CHYBIK + KRISTOF has unveiled designs for an energy-efficient greenhouse to commemorate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and Augustinian friar regarded ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

While the restoration of Green-Wood Cemetery’s historic Weir Greenhouse got a thumbs up from the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2015, a plan for a new, modern visitor’s center, designed by ...

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...

In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...

Midcentury modern is a term that’s thrown around a lot these days, but what is it really? Midcentury-modern architecture is not simply anything that was designed and built in the middle of the 20th ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge as "The Mental Disorders that Gave Us Modern Architecture". How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that ...

Raj Jadhav is a registered architect, educator and award-winning researcher in Mumbai, India. He has written numerous essays, design features and papers for Indian and international publications. In ...