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The Ancient Library of Celsus 26 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Centuries ago, in a land now known as Turkey, Roman architect Vitruoya designed a library fit for a king. A wide marble road leads visitors down to the ruins of the Ancient Library of Celsus, which st...
Updates: August 18 - 24, 2013 24 Aug 2013 | 04:58 pm
If I could go to any library, I'd pick this one just for the chance to climb the stairs. The grand marble staircase of the 1895 Boston Public Library is guarded by two Siena marble lions sculpted by L...
Shining a Light on Architecture 21 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
How can you turn a construction site into art? Architect and designer Michael Graves has done it again at the Washington Monument. The pencil-shaped Monument took quite a shaking during the August 23,...
The Influential Saarinens 20 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
What building ushered in the Jet Age? Some say, the 1962 Dulles International Airport, near Washington, DC. A recent PBS documentary named Dulles one of the Ten Buildings That Changed America. The arc...
Updates: August 11 - 17, 2013 17 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
Our About.com readers are proud of their bungalows! From all of our reader submissions over the years, the bungalow home is the most talked about. What are they saying? Find out in this week's updates...
Capturing Energy the Murcutt Way 14 Aug 2013 | 09:41 pm
Glenn Murcutt, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect from Australia, has cool solutions to the energy crunch. By paying close attention to the movement of the sun, moon, and seasons, Murcutt creates si...
Celebrate Elvis Week With Architecture 12 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
Rock on, because it's Elvis Week again! To celebrate, thousands of Elvis Presley fans will converge on Graceland, the Colonial revival mansion in Memphis, Tennessee where Elvis lived. But many say tha...
Updates: August 4 - 10, 2013 10 Aug 2013 | 04:03 pm
Learn "to see what is not there," says architect Peter Eisenman. Born on August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey, Eisenman has given this same instruction to his students, as it once was given to him: T...
Nonconformity is Back 9 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Born in Ireland on August 9, 1878, feminist architect and designer Eileen Gray came of age at the turn of the twentieth century—an exciting time of industrial revolution, modernity, and nonconformity....
Building a Healthy Village 8 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Whatever happened to the dream that was Loreto Bay? Few places in the world are as beautiful and unspoiled as the rocky coast of the Sea of Cortez in Baja California Sur, Mexico (view larger image). I...
