Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the 20th century's best-known architects. Over 40 years after his death, historical and critical comment and debate are increasing and controversy continues to surround h
What turns a building into an icon? What is it about some structures that makes their history and legend even more important than their original intended use, making them a part of American, and worl
At age 21, Maya Lin won a national design competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, now known as The Wall. This biography for students in high school and up describes the political and arti
Encyclopedia of Architectural and Engineering Feats presents more than 200 achievements in architecture and structural engineering in all the inhabited continents, from prehistory to the present.
This self-taught Dutch architect was among the most widely copied architects of the 1930s and 1940s. His international influence is all the more amazing when one considers that most of his architectur
