When Jim Siegel was a teenager, a plan for how he would one day acquire his dream house came to him during an LSD trip. He followed it to the letter and now owns the Westerfeld House, but it was a long, strange trip. He shares its storied history.
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Ann Pamela Cunningham led the charge to preserve George Washington's estate—and in the process started a movement.
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How the technology behind the building blocks of construction informs the craft and creativity of architecture.
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Beth Shalom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, is the only synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Encounter a variety of historic places considered sacred, both in the traditional and secular meanings of the word.
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Created by the masters of modernism, the mid-century homes of California are too small for today’s super-rich – hence a conference about how to preserve them
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The new Frankenstein-like face of Matrera fortress has upset heritage watchdogs, but restores the clout its Moorish creators originally intended. As with other famous ‘botches’, might detractors learn to love it with time?
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It's about to get harder to visit Cinque Terre—but that might be a good thing.
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Designed by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos and Barbes Lopes Arquitectos, the newest iteration of Lisbon's centuries-old Teatro Thalia successfully marries the restoration of a complex history with a careful articulation of the theatre type.
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Preservationists want to restore the Peters-Margedant House, a prototype of Usonian design.
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The West's largest, WPA-era egg tempera murals painted by female artists are under threat from water and earthquakes.
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