Modernism week is an annual event held every February in Palm Springs, California. Thousands of people descend on the Coachella Valley to tour some of the incredible examples of Mid-Century Modern buildings that exist here. To call them fans of m... Read...

With the holidays here, I was tasked with assembling the gifts for my 2-1/2 year old daughter. This is an occupational hazard of every architect and contractor I know. Let's see: five years of undergrad, three years of internship, and two in graduat... Read...

Designers spend so much time generating drawings, why can't they be used after the buildings are complete? I was talking with a senior person from Autodesk , the makers of the ubiquitous AutoCAD program, about the future of the design professio... Read...

You have probably been on dozens of home tours throughout your life. (I know I have.) And most of those were probably filled with people making haughty conversation about the lamp from Artemide , the cabinets from Poggenpohl , or the fi... Read...