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In his new book, “Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic strives mightily to define architecture during an epoch bracketed by “two great thunderclaps in the sky” – the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 and the completion of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, in 2010.

October 15, 2010 by Mike Welton

The Chicago Tribune’s Blair Kamin on ‘Terror and Wonder’

There’s superficiality connected to them, as though they’re simply applied to the surface of a building and don’t affect its function at all.

August 10, 2010 by Mike Welton

Paul Anderson and the Architecture of Patterns

When their parents moved to Pasadena for health reasons in 1893, the brothers followed, setting up their architecture practice a year later.

July 7, 2010 by Mike Welton

Greene & Greene: Taking the Edge Out of Arts & Crafts

It features an essay by artist and agricultural activist Fritz Haeg, who tagged it all “a handsome piece of pragmatic poetry.”

June 21, 2010 by Mike Welton

Interviews and Essays in ‘Above the Pavement – the Farm’

With dual degrees – one in architecture and another in city planning – he’s taught at Yale University for the past 43 years.

June 18, 2010 by Mike Welton

From Norton, Alex Garvin’s Definitive Book on Public Parks

The chair of the illustration program at Parsons The New School for Design, former art director for The New York Times op-ed page and illustrator for Rolling Stone and New York, he’s just published a tongue-in-cheek update of the classic fable.

June 16, 2010 by Mike Welton

‘Three Little Pigs’ Is Architecture for the Young at Heart

It’s an exploration of the myriad and often contradictory forces that shaped Miami’s postwar construction, and looks at how those forces projected the city’s image onto the world stage.

May 6, 2010 by Mike Welton

‘Miami Modern Metropolis’ by Architect Allan Shulman

Her first, “Alabama Stitch Book” won high praise from respected sources. Vogue magazine called it “haute homespun out of the Deep South.”

April 21, 2010 by Mike Welton

Y’all Hear ’bout the Alabama Bauhaus?