A tribute to the genius of a Renaissance mind, a positively fishy story of coastal design and more well-built selections.

The publishers Lund Humphries released Charles Saumarez Smith's new book John Vanbrugh - The Drama of Architecture yesterday. Here's a recent presentation given by the author at the Wigmore Hall in ...

Dance benefited from an extensive architectural training. The fifth and youngest son of the mason-turned-architect George ...

Discover how architecture embraces restraint, valuing existing structures over new builds for a sustainable future.

Nate Berkus loves to decompress from a busy day by curling up with a good book. “I am a voracious reader – I read about three books a month, mostly memoirs and fiction,” the interior designer — whose ...

In 1978, an unusual BBC television show hit U.K. screens. Connections, hosted by science historian James Burke, would begin each episode with Mr. Burke uttering a seeming bizarre statement such as: ...

The Institute for Psychoanalytical Studies in Architecture (iPSA) and publishing firm Palgrave Macmillan are launching Lacan + Architecture, a book edited by architectural historian John Shannon ...

At the Reader, we cover books all year—from our Best of Chicago issue, which spotlights bookstores working to build community or magazine shops that feature live music and obscure titles, to our ...

Before the advent of air conditioning and local building codes, any hope of living through a Lowcountry summer meant coming to terms with heat and humidity and finding how best take advantage of the ...

Top up your design knowledge and spruce up your coffee table with these five Monocle-recommended monographs. From the team behind Magazine B – the South Korean brand-documentary publication – Magazine ...

Ukrainian architectural photographer Dmytro Soloviovs has spent years travelling through his country, on a mission to document its remaining Soviet-era buildings and preserve the nation’s modernist ...

If there is one thing in software engineering that is a given, it’s that engineers need continuous education. While graduating college might have made us think that we were “done,” the truth is that ...