On August 19th, the world photography day is celebrated, a fundamental tool for the imagery record of our society. If, on the one hand, photography is the protagonist in dialogues that involve ...
Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...
For well over 2,000 years, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio has existed as a kind of myth in the history of architecture and civil ...
For a few decades in the 19th century, Italianate was one of the fastest developing and most popular architectural styles in the United States. Pam Spaulding As the name suggests, the Italianate ...
This article was originally published on Common Edge. For the past two weeks, cities across Nigeria were hit by protests against the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a police unit setup in ...
Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier, rounder ...
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 ...
The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2020, edited by Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns is a sweeping two volume survey of over 1,000 entries covering architects, designers, ...
In architecture circles, there’s a commonly used phrase: The built environment. That sounds straightforward enough on the surface, but it also suggests a concept that’s far more opaque and complicated ...