Throughout its 46-year history, architecture’s most prestigious prize has often been won by icon-builders: the apparent lone geniuses who imprint their visions, signature-like, on the world. It is ...

I first went to China in 2002, a year after the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2008 Summer Games to Beijing. That initial trip was about exploring nature, cuisine, ancient temples, ...

Introduction: Beyond the forbidden city; Genesis of Chinese buildings and cities; Architecture of the First Emperor and his predecessors; Han architecture; And age of turmoil: three kingdoms, two jins ...

The birth of the People’s Republic is seen as a time of drab buildings. But this dazzling show, featuring a factory in a cave and a denounced roof, tells a wildly different story In 1954, an issue of ...

From a birds eye view, one may mistake the Pujiang Platform—an arched, earth-covered pavilion nestled in the hills south of ...

Martha Schwartz Partners works around the globe to take on pollution and warming of the planet. By Shivani Vora Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and ...