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The Morgan Library & Museum is exhibiting the unleashed imagination of Jean-Jacques Lequeu, who reveled in light and pleasure. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, architecture found itself [...]

AT last, there is reason to hope that the Whitney Museum of American Art may be casting off its reputation for trendiness. In what may be seen, fairly or not, […]

LEAD: he main architecture exhibit is always on the streets, but the museums and galleries are full of architecture, too. The Avery Library at Columbia University is involved with two […]

By turns escapist and timely, eclectic outfits from artists, illustrators, designers and one set of architects. Eighteenth-century iterations of paper dolls -- hand-painted figures marketed to wealthy Europeans -- were [...]

LEW GOLDHAMMER blanched and stammered at the papers spread before him in the conference room at Brouwer & Janachowski, an investment advisory firm where the 55-year-old architect had come for [...]

In the last few years of his life, the architect Rafael Viñoly kept a private studio in TriBeCa near his main residence, where he would work on building designs while [...]

This article is part of our latest Design special report, about new creative pathways shaped by the pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted many lives. But for some people, the [...]

A 1961 glass house in Chardon, a two-bedroom condo in Pittsburgh and a 1924 Prairie-style duplex in Indianapolis. Chardon, Ohio | $599,000 A 1961 glass house with three bedrooms and [...]

Designers and architects expect the pandemic to affect apartment design long after the lockdowns are over. Here are a few trends you're likely to see. The coronavirus pandemic has placed [...]

Sketches from Kara Walker, wild designs from a hot architect-turned-artist, and a photo diary from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Look -- Instagram is a contingent space. Images get deleted, interesting people vanish [...]

Encompassing a teahouse, a confectionery stand and more, Ogata Paris pays homage to its setting while offering a true taste of Japan. In Paris's modish Marais, on a narrow street [...]

The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design On an October afternoon, our six-person jury -- Tom Delavan, the design and interiors director of T Magazine; Gabriel Hendifar, the [...]

T's roundup of people, places and things to know now. Louis Vuitton's Performance Clothes -- for Tomorrow Virgil Abloh, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's men's wear, is nothing if [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOne of the plainest, yet also most poignant items at the Chrysler Museum of Art's exhibition highlighting Thomas Jefferson as an architect is a worn, reddish-brown brick with a [...]

A look at design world events, products and people. Red Jewel of Texas Linda Pace, a philanthropist and heir to the Pace Picante salsa fortune, dreamed (literally) about a building [...]

How do you create a flower-centric restaurant that doesn't feel like a bridal shower? If you're Alessandra and Mario De Benedetti, you ask your good friend, the artist and writer [...]

As a teenager in Stuttgart, Germany, in the 1980s, the fashion designer Tina Lutz was always embarrassed to invite friends over to her family's home, a modern two-story rowhouse built [...]

The search for immortality has always been a subtext of architecture. From the pyramids, thought to have been designed as massive stairways so the soul of the deceased pharaoh could [...]

EARLY IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP, the architect António Falcão Costa Lopes and his wife, Filipa Fortunato, decided that opening a hotel one day might stave off empty-nest syndrome. ''When we got [...]

'BLUE PRINTS: THE PIONEERING WORK OF ANNA ATKINS' AT NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, STEPHEN A. SCHWARZMAN BUILDING (Closing on Feb. 17) An intimate, exquisite show of a pioneer of photography [...]

The architect Abraham J. Simberg has finally received what he was looking for all along: professional respect and appreciation for the vibrant Jazz Age tower he inscribed on the downtown [...]

The professional portfolio of Richard Meier, 76, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, includes dozens of geometric designs spanning decades and continents. On Sundays, he contributes to another body of work, using [...]

Watching a documentary about building a house might at first sound about as enticing as watching paint dry. Literally. Or, at the very least, you might expect to be in […]

Round Top, Tex. BUILDING a home, like getting married, is not for the faint of heart. It is a rare individual (or couple) who can manage the mix of high […]

The connections between architecture and mysticism -- which is what ''Geometry of Miracles'' is advertised to reveal -- might be unraveling beyond repair if the performance by the Ex Machina [...]

ANOTHER opening, another show: surely there are more humane ways than this to think about earthquakes. But unless you have the misfortune to be struck by one, a seismologic event […]

ONE Sunday morning back in the 1980's, long before the art galleries invaded Chelsea, two architects were riding their bikes down the old West Side Highway. As the men, G. […]

CAN the New York architect Robert A. M. Stern, famous for replicating old-money architecture right down to the eyebrow dormers, shed his gray shingles to become a hipper, populist educator […]

NO engineering degree is needed to appreciate how useful a computer would be in designing an 87-foot steel sphere capable of holding 585 people at once, apparently floating on air […]

NO engineering degree is needed to appreciate how useful a computer would be in designing an 87-foot steel sphere capable of holding 585 people at once, apparently floating on air […]

The Clinton mystery that consumes an elite slice of America's architectural and entertainment establishment these days has nothing to do with DNA and everything to do with bricks and mortar. […]

On the face of it, they couldn't be more different. Dakota Jackson, one of America's few celebrity furniture designers, appears to create from the gut; Peter Eisenman, the famously iconoclastic […]

Anyone who has commissioned a house knows that the client's biggest thrill is the first glimpse at his architect's presentation drawings, the magical culmination of years of dreams put to […]

MANY architects, it seems, take busman's holidays, drawing, painting and making sculpture in their spare time. If the results have little to do with their buildings directly, they often reflect […]

Times Square, once called 'the crossroads of the world,' is itself at a crossroads of creativity. In the last two years, the area has been revitalized by colorful signs, retail […]

The Pazzi Chapel in Florence is considered one of the cornerstones of Renaissance architecture, and to most scholars, it marks one of the highlights of the career of the great […]

To the Editor: As a recently registered architect, I am frustrated when I read a story like Jay Axelbank's 'A Connecticut Couple Build Their Dream House' (May 26). If these […]

WILLIAM M. BERNSTEIN wanted to psych out the real estate market, and he thought he had a smart way to do it. 'It seemed clear that the smaller apartments in […]

IN a land of brand names, Michael Graves is the Coca-Cola of American architecture. On a sunny afternoon in Princeton the other day, the iconic architect, now 61, was sitting […]

THE ROAD GETS ROUGHER. IT'S lonelier and tougher. Franklin D. Israel is the man who got away: the native New Yorker who went west and became Frank Israel, Star Architect, […]

THE architects riffled through their 2-inch stack of glossy photographs searching for the right 'before' shots to illustrate their points about renovating the 1,500-square-foot apartment for less than $75,000, including […]

ARCHITECTURE GETS A somewhat desiccated treatment in 'The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-68,' the Guggenheim Museum's epic survey of postwar Italian culture. Rows of somber little black-and-white photographs, lined up on racks […]

CHARLES MOORE'S heirs say that they are not sure what to do with the architect's house now that the University of Texas has rejected it but that they would prefer [...]

Say Maya Lin's name to architects, and they will tell you she's really an artist. Mention her to artists, and they'll start reeling off the architectural projects she has completed. […]

Stacey Marie Moreau, a daughter of Mrs. Gail H. Moreau of Washington Depot, Conn., was married yesterday evening to Pels Alexander Matthews, a son of John A. Matthews of Madison, […]

Frank Lloyd Wright was America's greatest architect after Thomas Jefferson. His work and thought form a towering mountain in the field of architecture that has had to be re-evaluated with […]

WITH high office usually come perquisites. In France, inevitably, they include custom-made furniture. In 1989, when Jack Lang, then France's Minister of Culture, refurbished his office in Paris, he commissioned […]

Some say that Eric Owen Moss comes out of Frank Gehry. Others insist that Mr. Moss's true architectural forebear is the Venetian modernist Carlo Scarpa. Actually, the work of this […]

RECENTLY, Thaddeus Kusmierski was designing an up-from-the-ashes house for a survivor of the great Oakland and Berkeley fire. Mr. Kusmierski sang the praises of built-in bookshelves as a way to […]

A ground-breaking was held on Thursday on a plot of land that many architects hold sacred: a grove of 67 eucalyptus trees in La Jolla, Calif. What's so special about […]