A new biography, ‘The Man in the Glass House,’ shows why it’s hard to ignore the authoritarian characteristics of some of the architect’s more celebrated work, and why the relationship between aesthetics and morality will forever be fraught
Thomas Feiger rebuilds what was lost in the Austrian capital
One photographer asks, can architecture create a better society?
Built in 1876, Adas Israel—the actual building itself—will be moved for a third time
An exhibition featuring the creations of the legendary architect is now showing at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington
Exploring the home once owned by the borough’s first Jewish pediatrician
How Peter Pennoyer started crafting Jewish doorpost markers for his clients
The architect addressed students at FIT’s Yom HaShoah commemoration
I love Philip Johnson’s buildings not in spite of him, but to spite him
An ambitious new park is set to transform the dilapidated neighborhood that was once the Russian capital’s first Jewish quarter
The great Judean builder and his outsized ego are the subject of a monumental Israel Museum exhibit
Sierra Leone’s Israeli-built parliament building is a symbol of the Jewish state’s long-running engagement in Africa
The great architect’s park, designed in 1974, finds kinship with Roman and Egyptian ruins, with their silent, powerful massing
An architect built me a house in Warsaw—coincidentally right where my mother risked her life to save her family
With its Berlin outpost in a former Nazi headquarters, is the chic club obscuring the building’s dark past?
A morally bankrupt exhibition in New York suggests how not to look at architecture in the Middle East—by neglecting the works’ political contexts
Brooklyn-born photographer Julius Shulman, the subject of two recent books, captured Los Angeles’ development into a center of modernism
None of Poland’s spectacular wooden synagogues survived the war. Now a team of experts and novices is bringing one of them back to life.