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Victor and Aladar Olgyay diagram of a climate control device in Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning
Forced Air

In Modern Architecture and Climate, climate control takes command

a modernist office building outside of detroit, the federal-mogul
Southfield Squabble

Modernist Michigan gem threatened with significant alternations

Frederick Kiesler Space House
The Social Networker

A new book argues Frederick Kiesler was the influencer at the center of American modernism

All white building above glass walls, the new Center for Cyber Innovation
CYBERNETIC CANTILEVER

AECOM designs Center for Cyber Innovation for the United States Air Force Academy

Black-and-white photo of three women with trophies, from X-ray architecture
X-Rayted

X-Ray Architecture asks us to reimagine building materiality

White line drawing of a jutting home
LAIR OF PRETENSION

Lair puts a spotlight on the homes of famous movie villains

Image of modernist home with flat roof in Connecticut woods
Preservation Promises

Another modernist New Canaan icon gains full historic protections

Photo of the Columbus Square pavilion, a small, circular structure with thick stone walls, a single red door, and an angular roof.
Architects Anonymous

Did Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher build Philadelphia’s modernist stone pavilion? The answer may save it from demolition

A color photograph of César Pelli's The Commons in Columbus, Indiana.
Not Your Average Mall

Remembering César Pelli’s lost mark on the Midwest

Rendering of low-hanging white steel and glass building with long windows
Forgotten Modernism

A little-known Mies van der Rohe design will be built at Indiana University

A modern house buried among native plants
Go Long

Barry Bergdoll showcases a new wave of modern architecture on Long Island

Aerial photograph of Pittsburgh skyline with collaged in building designs
Re-Imagining the Modern

New book grapples with ambitious, contentious moment in Pittsburgh’s urban history

California Preservation Conference

Black and white photo collage of an ear, nose, and eye
Giddy for Giedion

Sigfried Giedion gets a fresh look in new book

A man sitting on a chair
Booted from Beauty

Roger Scruton fired from U.K. housing commission over inflammatory comments

Photo of Villa Malaparte, also known as Casa Malaparte
Modernity Missive

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani proposes foundational principles for design

Photo of modernist building
Smart Design

Archive of modernist residential architecture thrives in North Carolina

Photo of London Zoo's Penguin Pool
Penguin Problems

London’s Penguin Pool should be “blown to smithereens,” says architect’s daughter