Tony Cenicola/The New York Times In the mid-19th century, a quirky architectural fad swept the country: the octagonal house. Homes shaped like octagons were said to […]
His houses cantilevered from cliffs, straddled canyons and sprung from mountains; they would come to define the Southern California landscape. Harry Gesner, the dashing, surf-loving architect […]
A fierce anti-modernist, he championed vernacular structures, becoming a counterculture hero to many, from New Urbanists to software designers to Prince Charles. Christopher Alexander, the Viennese-born […]
The Harlem house had been empty for eight years when in 2010 James Fenton, the British poet, and Darryl Pinckney, the African American cultural critic and […]
This article is part of our latest Design special report, about creative people finding fresh ways to interpret ideas from the past. To call an armchair […]
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about crossing the borders of space, time and media. The French archaeologist and statesman […]