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The Legacy of the First Licensed Black Architect in Texas Lives Here

The Legacy of the First Licensed Black Architect in Texas Lives Here

A New Generation of Earthship Owners Looks for Climate Solutions in the Past

A New Generation of Earthship Owners Looks for Climate Solutions in the Past

When Disaster Called, L.A.’s Realtor-Influencers Were Ready

When Disaster Called, L.A.’s Realtor-Influencers Were Ready

Diary of an Accidental Transatlantic Cruiser

Diary of an Accidental Transatlantic Cruiser

“Murder She Wrote” Was Actually All About Real Estate

“Murder She Wrote” Was Actually All About Real Estate

Are Our Homes Starting to Look More...Holy?

Are Our Homes Starting to Look More...Holy?

Why You Either Love or Hate Brutalism

Why You Either Love or Hate Brutalism

What Ever Happened to Laundry Chutes?

What Ever Happened to Laundry Chutes?

The Little-Known Personality Study on the Giants of Midcentury Architecture

The Little-Known Personality Study on the Giants of Midcentury Architecture

How “A Complete Unknown” Recreated a Long-Lost New York

How “A Complete Unknown” Recreated a Long-Lost New York

The Death of the Bar Cart

The Death of the Bar Cart

Take a Rare Look Inside an Ahead-of-Its-Time Home by Italian Architect Umberto Riva

Take a Rare Look Inside an Ahead-of-Its-Time Home by Italian Architect Umberto Riva

The Surprising Sources of Space-Saving Inventions

The Surprising Sources of Space-Saving Inventions

Nickelodeon’s “Luxury” Resort Courts Millennials With Nostalgia. Is It Working?

Nickelodeon’s “Luxury” Resort Courts Millennials With Nostalgia. Is It Working?

One Night in the Self-Proclaimed “First U.S. Carbon-Positive Hotel”

One Night in the Self-Proclaimed “First U.S. Carbon-Positive Hotel”

Do “Color of the Year” Announcements Actually Influence Trends?

Do “Color of the Year” Announcements Actually Influence Trends?

The Year the Internet Started to Care About Architectural Preservation

The Year the Internet Started to Care About Architectural Preservation

The Year Logos and Merch Took Over Our Homes

The Year Logos and Merch Took Over Our Homes

The Restaging of “Luna Luna” Calls Back to a More Exciting—But Dead—Art World

The Restaging of “Luna Luna” Calls Back to a More Exciting—But Dead—Art World

Why Is Spain’s Social Housing So Well-Designed?

Why Is Spain’s Social Housing So Well-Designed?

How the “The Brutalist” Production Designer Went “Method” to Embody a Fictional Architect

How the “The Brutalist” Production Designer Went “Method” to Embody a Fictional Architect

Icons Only: The Coveted Midcentury Community That Residents Banded Together to Preserve

Icons Only: The Coveted Midcentury Community That Residents Banded Together to Preserve

Inside the World of Competitive Gingerbread House Building

Inside the World of Competitive Gingerbread House Building

Jeremiah Brent Is a Natural—and Needed—Addition to “Queer Eye”

Jeremiah Brent Is a Natural—and Needed—Addition to “Queer Eye”

In “No Good Deed,” Not Even a Murder Stops a Bidding War

In “No Good Deed,” Not Even a Murder Stops a Bidding War

How “Star Trek” Helped Make Midcentury-Modern the Signature Sci-Fi Aesthetic

How “Star Trek” Helped Make Midcentury-Modern the Signature Sci-Fi Aesthetic

Hood Century Founder Jerald Cooper Is Harnessing Instagram Clout for a New Preservation Movement

Hood Century Founder Jerald Cooper Is Harnessing Instagram Clout for a New Preservation Movement

A Finnish Photographer Captures Alvar Aalto’s Early Works in Their Shared Hometown

A Finnish Photographer Captures Alvar Aalto’s Early Works in Their Shared Hometown

How Modular Sofas Became the Ultimate Furniture Flex

How Modular Sofas Became the Ultimate Furniture Flex

When Your House Might Be a Modernist Copycat

When Your House Might Be a Modernist Copycat

When Natural Disasters Threaten Modernist Icons

When Natural Disasters Threaten Modernist Icons

A DIYer Builds a “Tomatovision” Cabinet to Conceal Her Flat-Screen TV

A DIYer Builds a “Tomatovision” Cabinet to Conceal Her Flat-Screen TV

The Transformation of Cheyenne, Wyoming

The Transformation of Cheyenne, Wyoming

Never-Before-Seen Photos Capture Dwindling Remnants of Soviet Modernism

Never-Before-Seen Photos Capture Dwindling Remnants of Soviet Modernism

Beige’s Big Comeback

Beige’s Big Comeback

Congratulations, You’re the Owner of a House by Minerva Parker Nichols

Congratulations, You’re the Owner of a House by Minerva Parker Nichols

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