Ongoing vigilance is necessary to secure the future of the Shukhov Tower, an icon of the advent of modern technology and an engineering masterpiece of the early twentieth century.
Built between 1928 and 1930 and designed by Moisei Ginzburg and Ignatii Milinis for employees of the National Finance Ministry, the Narkomfin building is a seminal monument of Modern architecture.
Decades of wear, the pressures of growth, and a lack of resources threaten Central University of Venezuela’s modernist campus and its iconic Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism building.
Seamlessly woven into the rugged terrain of the American southwest, Frank Lloyd Wright observed that Taliesin West belonged to the Arizona desert as though it had stood there during creation.
Floating above Creole cottages and Victorian shotgun houses of the Tremé/Lafitte neighborhood of New Orleans is the glass-and-steel Phillis Wheatley Elementary School.
The Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library opened under the leadership of Ella Gaines Yates, the first African American director of the city’s public library system.
In the early 20th century, tuberculosis swept through Europe, affecting the urban poor, whose living conditions offered the perfect environment for the transmission and spread of the deadly disease.