Frei Otto has been named the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient, Tom Pritzker announced this afternoon. The news comes a day after the visionary architect, 89, died in his native Germany. Otto ...

A recipient of his field’s highest award, he was known for his Brutalist designs, of churches in particular, in a postwar Germany trying to rebuild itself. By A.J. Goldmann MUNICH — Gottfried Böhm, ...

The change in location came with massing instructions. “The city council wanted a U-shaped building for a bit of protection for the kids and separation for the neighbors,” explains Karin Kohlhaas, ...

In 2010, anthropologist Christina Schwenkel moved into the dilapidated modernist neighborhood of Quang Trung in downtown Vinh, Hò Chi Minh’s birthplace and one of Vietnam’s secondary urban centers. In ...

Essays on the life and work of Adolf Cluss, architect of the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building. Traces the life and career of Adolf Cluss, 1825-1905, an architect of many civic buildings in ...

With almost 6,000 registrants from 95 countries and 6 continents so far, the event series "beyond.aco - architecture across continents" has reached a large international audience. This year, the ...