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Over the past half-century the small town of Columbus, Indiana, has turned itself into a showplace of modern architecture
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Transcending genres, the designer and director creates shamanistic theater
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Intrepid explorer Julia Solis finds beauty in the ruins of derelict urban structures
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The Cooper-Hewitt explores the wide-ranging impact of historical and contemporary designs
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Architects and preservationists have turned a strip of New Jersey shore into a monument to mid-century architecture. Can they keep the bulldozers at bay?
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In Barcelona, a yearlong celebration spotlights architecture's playful genius the audacious and eccentric Antoni Gaudí
For much of the 20th century, hoopsters from pro to pickup loved their Converse Chuck Taylor All stars
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In Alabama, students turn tires and bales of hay into striking architecture for the poor
A compendium of thoughts on the Shakers from some quotable notables
If you can move a lighthouse, you can move anything
The maverick Genoese architect has built an international reputation with daring projects that span the globe
Wearing zoot suits and skirts that twirl, Lindy Hoppers are making lots of whoopee from coast to coast
The earliest models looked like horse trailers but today's mobile home is basically a house and the typical "trailer park" resembles a subdivision
It used to be kid stuff, but these days more and more adults are building in trees to get high
It's beat the clock at high altitude as a surefooted crew builds a 500-foot communications tower
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Sporting faux fur to gold to the front lawn, old clunkers are getting decked out as art cars the ultimate vehicles of self-expression
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