The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture by J Max Bond Jr is a crucial component of Harlem's thriving cultural scene and the embodiment of its architect's aptitude for projects that combined civic idealism with understated aesthetics.
Technical virtuosity, madcap curatorship, and a remarkable eye for detail combine to secure the Soane Museum’s status as architecture’s intellectual funhouse
The first of Mitterrand’s grands projets, the Arab World Institute was born of an unlikely marriage between a politically charged brief and an architect with a penchant for nightclubs and radical ideas.
The enigmatic concrete spaceship that stands at the centre of Los Angeles International Airport stands as a monument to misplaced optimism, missed opportunities and swinging sixties glamour.
Designed by a lifelong communist for a wealthy media magnate, Lina Bo Bardi’s uncompromising art museum is full of contradictions – just like the Italian architect’s life.
Once the epicentre of Hollywood’s nascent artistic and architectural scene, Rudolph Schindler’s extraordinary home was a stepping stone to Los Angeles’ great leap into modernity.
