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Glenn Adamson and Péter Tamás Nagy present the exhibition “Colors of the City: A Century of Architecture in Doha” .

A multimedia exhibition at V&A Kensington examines how Western ideas were reimagined as a form of post-colonial nationhood that combined European practice with indigenous traditions of making and design.

Spring is here, and community members in Hilliard welcomed the season by supporting local businesses at the 2024 Spring Avant-Garde Craft Show.The show, now in

Completed in 1942, the National Historic Landmark–designated site in Columbus, Indiana, is considered one of the first Modernist churches in the U.S.

Contemporary characterisations of squatters and street vendors as a “nuisance” reproduces colonial urbanism ideas of hygiene and order.

The painstaking conservation project will be recognized at a February 27 event in Manhattan that also honors the life of the late Jean-Louis Cohen. 

Modernism, in the fine arts, late 19th to mid-20th century, a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. It fostered a period of experimentation in literature, music, dance, visual art, and architecture. Learn more about the history of Modernism and its various manifestations.

A book examines Yale University as a former incubator for architects and designers—Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen among them—who shared a “penchant for conflating the past, present, and future.”

Casa sobre el Arroyo: Award-winning restoration of a 1940's architectural marvel in Argentina's modernist movement.

Eero Saarinens striking 1959 chancery—one of three buildings in Europe by the architect—now houses offices, a multifunction event space, cafe, and restaurants thanks to Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem.