The raw concrete sensibilities of brutalism may have been pioneered in the UK in the 1950s – its influence stretching into ...

In 2010, anthropologist Christina Schwenkel moved into the dilapidated modernist neighborhood of Quang Trung in downtown Vinh, Hò Chi Minh’s birthplace and one of Vietnam’s secondary urban centers. In ...

Brutalist architecture is exactly what it sounds like. Characterized by utilitarian, monolithic concrete forms, this 20th-century movement remains as divisive as ever. Some people love Brutalist ...

Architecture students from Germany’s University of Kaiserslautern teamed up with 25 refugees to build a timber community center for a refugee camp in Mannheim, Germany. Completed as part of the ...

On May 24, a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers before being shot by off-duty Border Patrol officers. For nearly an hour, police massed in ...

Movies can be great. Art can be great. But put them together in a museum exhibition, and the combination can be not-so-great. In fact, it can be downright tedious: acres of wall space jammed with ...

German architecture firm Magnus Kaminiarz & Cie has unveiled designs for a soaring apartment building that when completed will be Germany’s tallest residential skyscraper. Dubbed the Grand Tower and ...

The “Super Models” architectural exhibit will feature a German house and a dental clinic all under an 18.5 foot foam structure. Each building is a copy of other architectural models held in the German ...

Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), Vol. 57, No. 4 (May, 2004), pp. 10-18 (9 pages) During the Cold War, the United States and USSR used educational exchange programs as instruments of ...

In any city across the world, there are countless examples of unsung architecture – well-designed if inoffensive buildings that strive to please by not standing out from the crowd. For German ...