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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

The Hypebeasts Have Come for Frank Lloyd Wright

The Hypebeasts Have Come for Frank Lloyd Wright

In This Town, Renovating Instead of Tearing Down Puts Money Back in Your Pocket

In This Town, Renovating Instead of Tearing Down Puts Money Back in Your Pocket

Why Are These Sleek Shelving Systems From the ’60s Suddenly Everywhere?

Why Are These Sleek Shelving Systems From the ’60s Suddenly Everywhere?

#Vanlife Is Thriving in—of All Places—Brooklyn

#Vanlife Is Thriving in—of All Places—Brooklyn

When Did Doors Become So Terrible?

When Did Doors Become So Terrible?

Donald Judd’s Influence Is Way Bigger Than Kim Kardashian

Donald Judd’s Influence Is Way Bigger Than Kim Kardashian

The Great Toilet Rebrand

The Great Toilet Rebrand

When Did Cookware Get So...Toylike?

When Did Cookware Get So...Toylike?

Why Haunted Modernist Homes Are Used to Critique Societal Issues

Why Haunted Modernist Homes Are Used to Critique Societal Issues

One Night in an Off-Grid, Brutalist-Style Hotel in Coastal Oaxaca’s Design Enclave

One Night in an Off-Grid, Brutalist-Style Hotel in Coastal Oaxaca’s Design Enclave

Ezra Stoller’s Architectural Photography Brought Modernism to the Masses

Ezra Stoller’s Architectural Photography Brought Modernism to the Masses

These Collectors of Black Memorabilia Want to Reframe What It Means

These Collectors of Black Memorabilia Want to Reframe What It Means

The Famous Midcentury Architecture That Inspired the Parr House in Pixar’s “Incredibles 2”

The Famous Midcentury Architecture That Inspired the Parr House in Pixar’s “Incredibles 2”

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper Is in Danger. Where’s the Uproar?

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper Is in Danger. Where’s the Uproar?

A Tiny Cabin Atop a Pickup Truck Can Handle Snow, Hills, and Seashore

A Tiny Cabin Atop a Pickup Truck Can Handle Snow, Hills, and Seashore

Albert Frey’s Desert Modernism Had a Sense of Humor

Albert Frey’s Desert Modernism Had a Sense of Humor

WTF Happened to the Winners of Airbnb’s $10M OMG! Fund?

WTF Happened to the Winners of Airbnb’s $10M OMG! Fund?

“Megalopolis” Romanticizes the Tortured-Genius Architect Archetype in the Worst Way

“Megalopolis” Romanticizes the Tortured-Genius Architect Archetype in the Worst Way

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