“A Brick for Venice” explores the potential of the natural and readily available waste sediment material for construction use. It is a low-carbon construction product so it can become readily ...

It’s one of the paradoxes of Philadelphia’s 21st century residential building boom. The more rowhouses and apartments that get built here, the more they look alike. The streets of Fishtown and ...

When the critic Reyner Banham published his seminal essay, “The New Brutalism,” in 1955, the project he used to illustrate the essential elements of this new architectural language was a school.

Structural engineers are familiar with seventeenth-century scientist Robert Hooke's theory that a hanging chain will mirror the shape of an upstanding rigid arch. However, new research now shows that ...