This carefully prepared anthology dedicated to wood explores the medium through multiple lenses. Composed of three segments, its various writers bring perspectives ranging in disciplines to allow for ...

Wood has played an important role in contemporary Mexican architecture due to its versatility, sustainability, and cultural connection to the architectural history of the country. Currently, ...

One of Illinois’ little known architectural treasures is the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County’s History Museum on the Square at 332 Maine in downtown Quincy. Housed in a beautifully ...

DRIVE BY HISTORY: Fascinating history is discovered in the construction of Margate's Lucy the Elephant, Southampton's The Big Duck, and other mimetic buildings. Also, covered bridges and the mistake ...

Four years ago, the Pritzker Prize–winner Tadao Ando spectacularly converted a 1920s apartment building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago into exhibition spaces for a gallery named—in ...

Chicago is known for its influential skyscrapers, but a new book full of illustrations argues that its homes are equally ...

Wayne Wood’s grandparents owned a boarding house on Riverside Avenue called The Woodshed. As a child, Wood, now 77, spent summers there, enjoying the splendor of that house and other grand homes in ...