DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE IN NAME AND FORM, an icon of post-modernism comes wrapped in centuries of architectural history
It belonged to Taos’ most influential family until well into the 20th century, but this unadorned adobe hacienda speaks of the earliest days of Spanish occupation of the Southwest.
The generation that fought World War II also won a housing revolution that promised and delivered a home for $7990.
A Romanesque mansion in Chicago was built to forbid outsiders, while providing a warm welcome to guests.
The Colonial Revival was born in a time of late-19th-century ferment, and, from then on, the style resurfaced every time Americans needed reassurance.
A rare survivor of New England’s earliest days testifies to the strength that forged a nation.
At the dawn of this century, a new form of residential architecture rose from the American heartland, ruled by the total integration of space, site, and structure.
In its majesty and in its simplicity, the Greek Revival house seemed to echo America’s belief in the past and hopes for the future.
The shady courtyards, tiled roofs, and white stucco walls of 1920s Palm Beach owed something to the style of the Spanish Renaissance and everything to the vision of Addison Mizner
The medieval look that swept America 150 years ago wasn’t just a matter of nostalgia for pointed archways and crenellated towers; it was also the very model of a modern architectural style.
An architecture for a new nation found its inspiration in ancient Rome.
The pilasters and pediments of an architecture perfectly suited to our eighteenth-century aristocracy flourish in today’s skyline and suburb
The first settlers marked the borders of their lives with simple fences that grew ever more elaborate over the centuries