Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” adapted by Rand, contractually protected from studio meddling, from her 1943 bestseller about the ...

Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of The Dallas Morning News and the recipient of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Give your new construction home a classic look with these expert tips for incorporating historical architecture throughout ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines revival as “renewed attention or interest in something.” Classical Revival is the first of many revival styles to appear on the architectural scene in Lancaster ...

I was passing by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington the other afternoon when the raking winter sun made the patterned, bronzed-aluminum facade glow ...

In 1919 a young Dutch architect named Michel de Klerk designed a large, experimental apartment complex called Het Schip, intended to provide hourly wage earning families in Amsterdam with a pleasant, ...

Spikes are built into some public accommodations to ensure that people won’t lie on or sleep on them. Elsewhere, boulders are placed on empty grass fields to make it difficult to comfortably rest. How ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. Origin myths,” “founding myths,” and “creation legends” provide a way for us to see into and imagine the distant past in metaphorical, poetic, and ...