Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

And some buildings they helped make famous, according to two architects and a curator. By Julia Halperin “Pounding earth or making mud bricks out of earth [as opposed to firing clay bricks] is one of ...

The discipline of Architectural History, Theory and Criticism examines the evolution of built environments through a multifaceted lens that integrates historical analysis, theoretical frameworks and ...

Architectural History, Theory and Criticism encompasses the study of built environments across time, the conceptual frameworks that explain their significance, and the evaluative approaches that ...

Designer and historian David Gissen discusses themes from his recent book re-examining architectural history through the lens of disability. By re-contextualizing the history of architecture through ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. For the past two weeks, cities across Nigeria were hit by protests against the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a police unit setup in ...

For those that love a performance, perhaps no building style is more theatrical than Baroque architecture. “The origins of the word ‘Baroque’ are not entirely clear, but it is generally associated ...

How did an innovative exhibition house, designed in New York City in 1931 — and only meant to stand for seven days during a building trade expo — find itself rebuilt 93 years later in southern ...

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2020, edited by Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns is a sweeping two volume survey of over 1,000 entries covering architects, designers, ...