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The Shingle Style is well represented, but there are buildings in the Classical, Mediterranean, and Midcentury Modern styles as well.

December 7, 2020 by Mike Welton

Five Fave Books for Gifting this Year

The first thing the architect looks at on a site is how the sun travels across it.

December 4, 2020 by Mike Welton

Mastering the One-Story, L-Shaped Plan

I’d spent more than a few days in Venice, and the magic of the place – and my experiences – were still fresh in my mind. So I penned 300 words for “Dream of Venice Architecture,” and was lucky to find it accepted for publication.

December 2, 2020 by Mike Welton

From Dream of Venice: ‘Lost No More’

One of the firm’s first projects was the Mu Xin Art Museum in the historic water town of Wuzhen, in China’s northern Zhejiang Province.

November 30, 2020 by Mike Welton

The Mu Xin Art Museum: OLI Architecture

With dual degrees from Penn in architecture and fine arts, textile designer Kevin O’Brien started printing decorative textiles 30 years ago.

November 27, 2020 by Mike Welton

Natural Selections: Mosaics at New Ravenna

Leave it to a group of common-sense Midwesterners to arrive at a solution to one of the thorniest issues in religion today: How can Jews, Muslims, and Christians co-exist on common ground?

November 25, 2020 by Mike Welton

In Omaha, Three Religions on One Campus

Anni Albers is the fourth presentation of the series, following shows featuring Jerzy Grotowski, Esther McCoy, and John Cage.

November 23, 2020 by Mike Welton

In Mexico City, an Anni Albers Exhibition

November 20, 2020 by Mike Welton

Experiential Environments from Roto

“Walking down by the riverbank, there were so many trees cantilevered and bent out over the Haw River, that I said: ‘I want this house to bend out over the river too,’” Schecter says.

November 18, 2020 by Mike Welton

On a Carolina River, a Hawk’s-eye View

The new, 237,000-square-foot Kinder Building for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston was designed by Steven Holl.

November 16, 2020 by Mike Welton

The MFAH Kinder Building by Steven Holl