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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A novel preservation project takes shape in Virginia.
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We revisit a forgotten chapter in the city's rich architectural history and discover a surprisingly contextual, responsive, and intelligent movement.
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The German artist, dead at age 81, was half of a duo that changed the pitch of architectural photography in the 1960s.
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“Radical common sense” is the term a fellow preservation architect uses to describe a mindset that values repair over replacement.
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In Bentonville, Arkansas, a house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a New Jersey couple more than 60 years ago has been painstakingly reassembled, board by board and pane by pane, overlooking the clear waters of the Crystal Spring
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Four years after the quake that caused major damage to Washington National Cathedral, an up-close look at the restoration's progress.
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In this extract from The Seven Lamps of Architecture, published in 1849 and considered to be John Ruskin's first complete book on architecture, his studies are distilled into seven moral principles.
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By seamlessly stitching together a series of composite images from each location, Silver has created a stunning set of vertical panoramas that reveal the interiors of New York's most impressive religious structures.
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As Tom Mayes kept delving deeper into why old places matter, he discovered it takes only about a generation before people start to form a sense of identity with a place
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