The rise of Dubai has been nothing short of meteoric. “It’s crazy,” said Lin Kim, an architect who worked on the city’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. “You look at these old ...

The Second Studio (formerly The Midnight Charette) is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, it features different ...

Vietnamese Firm H&P Architects builds a prototype house to keep inhabitants safe from floods, rainstorms, and more. Why Architecture Needs to Take Advantage of Natural Resources Environmentally ...

Vernacular architecture in Hong Kong originated as a series of small, coastal settlements—simple, village-like communities that reflected the city's early identity as a fishing hub. These seaside ...

The need to update the traditional pole barn design largely stems from the fact that pole barns are not site-specific. Historically, there were advantages to this in terms of manufacturing and cost, ...

A new book from the National Museum of Bermuda tells how Canadian artist John Lyman long ago discovered the beauty of the island’s vernacular architecture. In the first in a two-part series, historian ...

Introduction : national romanticism : vernacular expression in turn-of-the-century design / Nicola Gordon Bowe -- Recreating a tradition : Christopher Whall (1849-1924) and the arts & crafts ...

Vernacular Studio is a local, multidisciplinary architecture and design firm founded by Brett Hautop, AIA and Chad Parker, AIA. The firm is comprised of three distinct components including an ...

Host Renee Montagne talks with Jim Heimann, the author of California Crazy and Beyond, a book about the lost art of wacky roadside architecture. Heimann has traced the history of some of the state's ...