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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’

“A local builder asked me if he could buy the wood out of the back of my truck,” he says. “Then he said that if I could find more of that quality, he’d buy that too.”

October 14, 2010 by Mike Welton

In North Carolina, Turning Chestnut and Pine into Homes

BoutiqueHomes offers rentals in Europe and North America of architect-designed, contemporary and modern homes, including Wright’s Schwartz House in Wisconsin and Corbu’s apartment in Marseilles.

October 12, 2010 by Mike Welton

Where to Rent an Architect-Designed Vacation Home

By the time it was finished, he’d already designed Monticello in Charlottesville, the state capitol in Richmond, two wings for the White House in Washington, and the campus for the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

October 11, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Landscape as Architecture

The HOK master planner and landscape designer helped lead a team of 450 to design and build a 6.5 million-square-foot campus for science and technology in Saudi Arabia.

October 8, 2010 by Mike Welton

HOK Master Plans a Saudi Campus to Rival Stanford

With 36 SIPs, the elegant little 600-square-foot home absorbs the winter sun while providing plenty of shade during summer.

October 7, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Taliesin West, an Elegant, Efficient 600 Square Feet

Now, 30 years later, the Winston-Salem native lives in the foothills of North Carolina, working solely as a sculptor dedicated to making wry and poignant commentaries on corporate America.

October 6, 2010 by Mike Welton

In North Carolina, Norman Rockwell Meets Karl Marx

No, the architect and interior designer who strives to take the edge off modernism with his trademark soft palette sought out an old friend, Jay McInerney.

September 30, 2010 by Mike Welton

‘Made to Order,’ a Monograph by Designer Campion Platt

She started with a tiny torso that a jeweler might use to display precious gems. She added carved Styrofoam, then fiberglass mesh and a skim coat of Thinset.

September 23, 2010 by Mike Welton

Julie Richey Designs a Mosaic in Three Dimensions

“It was a test for us: how to apply LEED criteria to prime farmland,” says Roberto De Leon, principle in the firm.

September 21, 2010 by Mike Welton

Kentucky Barns of Bamboo & Steel by De Leon & Primmer