By Andrew Caruso Tom Kundig, spoke at the National Building Museum as part of the Spotlight on Design lecture series. Kundig is the winner of the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award and the 2007 Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and...

By Deborah Sorensen Do you have a mistress? Mistress?  Isn’t that an old-fashioned term? It may be old-fashioned, but at least it’s specific! —The Moon is Blue (1953) Not long after Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s experimental Farnsworth House (completed in 1951) inspired public debate...

By Reed Haslach The mid-20th century coincided with the zenith of “high modernism” in architecture, marked by pure, abstract, and often monumental forms, especially in public and institutional buildings. While much of Eero Saarinen’s (1910–61) work fits into that mold, modernism alone is not an...

By Susan Piedmont-Palladino The wide use of the term “green,” referring to sustainable design, is a relatively recent trend, but the idea that environmental concerns should be an integral and conscious aspect of the design process is by no means new. In the 1960s, for...