TAKAMATSU CITY, Japan >> Zipping along a two-way thoroughfare here, I gazed out at the parade of small apartment buildings, sporadic shops and single­-family homes. The scene could have been Anywhere, ...

Bowl, now known as Bowlero Christown, is a classic example of midcentury modern architecture in central Phoenix. The “Googie” ...

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 ...

The Aluminaire House drew crowds, and ridicule, in 1931. After several moves and a brush with demolition, it has found a home in Southern California. By Jori Finkel Reporting from Palm Springs, Calif.

Midcentury modern architecture, it seems, will never go out of style. After suffering a blip of critical revulsion in the 1980s and early ’90s, this movement based in artful simplicity, functionality, ...

Given modern architecture’s penchant for a minimalist approach, it’s hard to imagine a time when design elements like clean lines, open floor plans and floor-to-ceiling windows were revolutionary. But ...

Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective ...

You’ve seen them. Perhaps they’ve taken over your neighborhood, packing in cheek-by-jowl, straddling hillsides and squeezing out every square inch of space that zoning laws allow. They are modern box ...

How did modern architecture develop to its present state? Three new monographs trace that path, even if they don’t cover every direction the field has taken over the last century. Mies van der Rohe: ...

Some people see older buildings as revered artifacts that have stood the test of time, but others see them as occupying sites that could be used for new development. That tension is currently playing ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring traditional and classical architecture the "preferred" and "default" style for all major new federal buildings in the United States, ...