Many people consider architecture to be “the mother art,” while others believe the burdens of program and pragmatism prohibit architecture from the realm of pure artistry. But what happens when architecture is displayed alongside art?
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A deeper look at the historic rock gardens of Manzanar War Relocation Center.
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The idea of preservation as sustainability solution is not groundbreaking, but now is perhaps a good time to revisit the concept as city populations boom and the impacts of climate change become increasingly threatening.
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In this edition of "In Defense Of," we speak with Brian Turner, a senior field officer and attorney in the National Trust's San Francisco office, about Tinian and Pagan, two small islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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As a major retrospective of the lauded designers' work opens at the Barbican, we reveal ten little-known facts about their life and creative practice
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Historic sites that have played host to difficult events find ways to move forward without forgetting the past.
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These estates were torn down, but their stories are not forgotten
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A long-obscured ceiling at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum takes the spotlight after a year-long restoration.
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Preservation has evolved from a rarified special interest to an institution — an ethos — entrenched in our culture. But has it become too conservative, elitist and even racist?
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In the Arsenal building in Central Park, where he has an office, Franklin D. Vagnone keeps a pie chart. The chart, with five segments, is called the "Evaluation Matrix," and it is the culmination of years of Vagnone's theorizing about what makes an effective historic home.
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One of the initial steps toward a large-scale restoration of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's winter complex in Scottsdale, Arizona, will be taken today when a proposed preservation master plan is presented to the public.
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In the last decade, efforts to preserve some of downtown's most prominent buildings have had mixed results.
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