If earth, wind and fire are not enough to spark the mind, nothing is, reasoned San Francisco architect Michael Olexo as he approached his year as a resident artist at the Arts Far West middle and high ...

A mathematician has developed a new way to uncover simple patterns that might underlie apparently complex systems, such as clouds, cracks in materials or the movement of the stockmarket. The method, ...

The houses in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood are mostly simple single-family boxes constructed after World War II. On one block, CS2 House both breaks this mold and fits right in. Designed by ...

Making simple geometry resonate in complex ways is a hallmark of Tadao Ando’s work. Whether it’s embedding platonic volumes in the earth, as he did at the Chichu Museum on Naoshima Island (PDF–page ...

Once a week I go out for lunch with my father-in-law and a couple of other retired gentlemen. As part of this, we take it in turns to bring a “project” for the others to peruse and ponder over the ...

With its simple geometry and classical arrangement, Stockholm’s Public Library is a difficult building to characterize. Designed by noted Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund during the 1920s, the library ...

Porous coordination polymers are well known for their easily tailored framework structures and corresponding properties. Although systematic modulations of pore sizes of binary prototypes have gained ...