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Now Wright’s drawings for the house and other projects are available in digital format for most of the world to see.

February 24, 2020 by Mike Welton

Hollyhock House Launches Digital Archives

The Rio de Janeiro native has worked on both contemporary and classical interiors since opening her Manhattan interior design firm in 1992.

February 19, 2020 by Mike Welton

International Design from Cristiana Mascarenhas

They’ve got the vernacular, the scale and the proportion of residential work down pat, and they know their way around the codes and regulations.

February 17, 2020 by Mike Welton

An Architectural Promenade on Nantucket

The Walker Guest House is a stunning example of Paul Rudolph’s architecture, but it’s on Sanibel Island and the owners didn’t t want visitors

February 10, 2020 by Mike Welton

Auction: Rudolph’s Walker Guest House Replica

Blair Kamin’s newest book, “Amherst College: The Campus Guide,” paints a telling picture of his alma mater – with the buildings that populate it.

February 7, 2020 by Mike Welton

An Architectural History of Amherst College

What these three – Robert McCarter, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Kenneth Frampton – want to communicate with this book is how MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects approaches a site to push a building out of its environment.

February 3, 2020 by Mike Welton

Economy as Ethic: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple

There wasn’t much vernacular architecture to draw from in downtown New Rochelle, so the architects created their own language.

January 20, 2020 by Mike Welton

Millennial Living in Downtown New Rochelle

In Rotterdam, when an influential socialist paper of record folded a few years back, its building first found a few young tenants – then went vacant.

January 17, 2020 by Mike Welton

In Rotterdam, New Life for a Newspaper Office

The architects applied passive strategies like natural ventilation for cooling – with a riff on traditional tobacco barns’ louvered doors – to control drafts.

January 13, 2020 by Mike Welton

In Kentucky, Two Barns of Steel and Bamboo

“Mike Welton is a natural writer. The craft of his language is equal to the craft of the buildings and artifacts he writes about. He is the Vasari of the contemporary scene. I read Architects + Artisans as much for the beauty of his prose as I do for the cool things he writes about. He’s the real thing. Mike discovers in each window, each bench and each type of building a unique expression of architecture.” — Frank Harmon, FAIA, Principal, Frank Harmon Architect, Author: “Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See,” Raleigh, N.C.

January 10, 2020 by Mike Welton

For A+A’s 10th Anniversary, a Look Back