American Architecture

(larger) The Architecture of American Houses is an art print by Pop Chart Lab that features 121 different house styles from the 17th to the 21st

From 17th century Postmedieval English homes to the “McMansions" of the 90s, check out Pop Chart Lab's structured survey of 121 North American homes...

Image 24 of 33 from gallery of Zara Store in Rome / Duccio Grassi Architects. Photograph by Andrea Martiradonna

City Hall – Buffalo, NY

An update of a legendary book provides encyclopedic architectural knowledge of the city’s row houses

Completed in 1891 in St Louis, United States. Among the first skyscrapers built in the world, the Wainwright Building by Louis Sullivan and partner Dankmar Adler is regarded as an influential...

The humble seven-story townhouse was most recently asking a whopping $72 million

Be an architecture detective. Print out the worksheets in this article and take them with you as you explore your neighborhood and city. See if you can identify the architectural styles of the buildings around you, using the clues in the worksheets. Take photographs of the most interesting buildings and make a note of their street number and address. When you get home, take out your photographs and examine all the clues you can find. Make notes on the architectural evidence that lets you…

There’s something humbling and almost tearfully beautiful about the tiles perfectly aligned on the sidewalk. About smooth cake icing that looks like an ice-skating rink. About a spotless lid on a yogurt cup. About the clouds forming a perfect…You get it.