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Despite differences in motivation, context, and aims, Penny Sparke shows that bringing flora inside stands as a token of unspoiled nature, a reminder of what’s gone.

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The recent reissue of Banham's Megastructure helps mine the typology's precedents and points toward the ambitious movement's contemporary heirs.

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A technological breakthrough and a little-acknowledged bellwether of Modernism, the task lamp finally gets its due.

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Americanizm , an exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, examines the USSR's ardent fascination with American technology and culture.

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Designers have fixated on the visual culture that wrought Casio wrist watches and Superstudio. Mario Carpo explores the reasons why.

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Beatriz Colomina's new book overlooks the concrete cruelties of the designed environment.

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Beginning with Thonet's innovations two centuries ago, the development of the café chair typology reflects upheavals in cities and design.

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Architectural historian Beatriz Colomina explores how the Bauhaus harbored deeply transgressive ideas and pedagogies.

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Through his campus work, Sert left an incredible built legacy on the Boston area. But his building have taken some getting used to.

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An exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum explores the intersection of landscape architecture and social reform at the turn of the 20th century.

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The story of architectural Modernism in New York City goes beyond the familiar touchstones of Lever House and the Seagram Building.

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Before its association with functionalism and the International Style, the Bauhaus glamorized folk culture and occasionally veered into mysticism.