As the USPS celebrates its 250th anniversary, AD examines the surprisingly fascinating history of the agency’s buildings ...

A period of immense artistic and cultural growth that ushered out the Middle Ages, forever changing the world in the process, the Renaissance began in the Florentine Republic in the 14 th century, ...

Medellín, Colombia — – Over the last two or three years, a steady buzz has been building in architecture and design circles about developments in this city of 3.5 million, which through ...

Adriano Marinazzo, the Scholar in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, will speak on March 18, 2013 at 1pm in the Reves Room on “Studying the Renaissance Architecture of Florence: Virtual ...

But Florence, cradle of the Renaissance, remains undisturbed, a tableau of Medici-era palazzos, museums and monuments — a city where, as Henry James wrote in 1869, everything “seems coloured ...

All drawings, including rough sketches, were done in ink. A finished architectural drawing required two steps. First, a stylus was used to impress an outline on thick, hand-laid paper.

A symposium Feb. 9-11 at Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) will examine the status of drawing — traditionally the architect’s chief means of expression and exploration — in the digital age. Titled ...

In 1937, when Eliel Saarinen received an invitation to conceive a new house of worship in downtown Columbus, Indiana, he demurred. The Finnish-born architect and educator suspected that American ...

TIJUANA — The emerging architecture, design, art, culinary and cultural scenes of Tijuana will take center stage on Friday in a day-long event hosted by the San Diego Architectural Foundation.