Blogs & Editorials

AIA and NAHB Forecast Remodeling Market Buoyancy.

It’s all about the roof. The APT Building Technology Heritage Library contains more than 600 documents under the subject of roofing, which also includes accessories such as gutters, downspouts and flashing.

On the north shore of Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island founded in the 1600s, where the Roaring Brook meets the Vineyard Sound, there are the remains of a historic brickyard.

Modernism has excluded traditional and classical architecture from it role of offering beauty to serve and express our civil order’s quest to guarantee liberty and justice to all. How might we restore it to that role?

Experiencing a Historic House and Garden in the 21st Century

A view of classical architecture, from the perspective of the commercial fabricator rather than the architectural designer.

Walk down almost any street in the “Windy City” and you’ll see why Chicago has an architectural legacy as proud as any city in America, a fitting location for this year’s annual American Institute of Architects annual convention.

Should We Count on It?

A rare glimpse inside the newly renovated Mormon Temple in Washington, DC.

The most prominent use of architectural terra cotta was that of a decorative cladding system, particularly for urban commercial buildings.

While we frequently consider what comes under the definition of classicism, few have crystallized what it means.

The current history of architecture undermines architecture’s essential role in serving the common good and offering beauty. Here I will discuss this history’s deficiencies, and in my next opinion piece I will offer an alternative to it.

Does preservation architecture and traditional building design attract a disproportionate number of female professionals?

Stone is one of the world’s most common and durable building material.

Ninety years ago European Modernism was introduced to America by a landmark exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. It challenged traditional architecture and soon replaced it with Modernism, an architecture that betrays architecture’s responsibility to contribute to the common good.

Palladio Thought of It First

The richness and variety of architecture is revealed in religious architecture.

The pleasure and happiness we find in traditional and classical architecture and urbanism is the counterpart to the good and justice sought by the civil order it serves and expresses, a connection between justice and beauty that is alien to Modernism.

Ornamental metals were used in several forms, but stamped sheet metal was a popular material for architectural exteriors and interiors from the 1870s through the 1920s.

Winners of the 2021 Acanthus Awards were announced at a ceremony hosted by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, Chicago-Midwest Chapter recently. There were nine awards given for excellence in classical design plus nine more recipients of the Chapter’s “Special Awards.”

Metalwork is far more than classical “ornament.”

Words can help us appreciate and understand buildings. Some of the most useful and common words come in pairs, but they are often used carelessly.