J. Michael Welton

After decades of urban and suburban infrastructure designed by traffic engineers who've delivered tangled and ever-slowing meaning to the word oxymoron, Audi is turning to the architecture community for new solutions.

Last week in Munich, the German automobile manufacturer unveiled initial ideas from six international architecture firms in a competition...

Minimalist David Mitchell creates works of art that are almost architectural, then photographs them.

"It's about displacement, rebuilding and reconstructing," says Dru Arstark at Jim Kempner Fine Art. "It's about juxtaposing one shape upon another."

His career started in the early '80s in London,...

Designer Cleto Munari is putting his personal collection of art, furnishings and objects -- many created in conjunction with architects like Michael Graves, Richard Meier and Robert Venturi, as well as writers Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Saul Bellow -- up for auction.

A pair of epiphanies decades ago guided Betsy Rogers and Michael Graves along paths that led last weekend to two of the most coveted awards in classical design.

Graves traces the honor of winning the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture back to his 1960 Prix de Rome fellowship...

Alexandra Lange studied with Vincent Scully at Yale and now teaches students to write about architecture at NYU and the School for Visual Arts. She admires Ada Louise Huxtable for her clarity, Michael Sorkin for his humor, and Charles Moore for his subtlety, but she likes all three for their...

Jim Berger was 12 years old in 1956 when he put pencil to paper, wrote to Frank Lloyd Wright and asked a favor.

He was earning extra money with a paper route, he said, and hoped that the architect might design for Eddie, his...

Filmmaker Laura Israel isn't tilting at windmills -- but she does want to cast a critical eye in their direction.

And she's done that with Windfall -- her first documentary film, art-directed within an inch of its life -- and one that delivers a profound message:
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"The belittling anecdotes about Fitzgerald -- founded or unfounded -- have interfered with the proper assessment of his work," biographer Matthew Brucolli once wrote about F. Scott Fitzgerald, America's most gifted writer. "Nothing else about a writer matters as much as his words."

A similar notion might...

For the second time in two years, the work of modernist master Charles Gwathmey, his partner Robert Siegel and their architectural associates is on display in a building touched by Gwathmey's own hand.

This time around, the exhibition of their architecture is featured, appropriately enough, in Paul Rudolph Hall at...

Three decades after the publication of Tom Wolfe's seminal From Bauhaus to Our House, a major conference on postmodern architecture is set for Nov. 11 and 12 in New York.

Reconsidering Postmodernism features a roster jam-packed with participants sounding like a Who's Who of architectural rock stars.

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For Wired magazine executive editor Thomas Goetz, it was an opportunity to transform mountains of data into meaningful art.

With Adobe, he curated InForm: Turning Data into Meaning on AMDM, an online exhibit of the works of ten graphic artists that shows how significant digital information is...

There is, apparently, no recession at Ian Schrager's new PUBLIC Hotel in the heart of Chicago's Gold Coast.

To prove the point, the nation's best known hotelier -- who conceived the idea of luxury boutique hotels a few decades ago -- held a jam-packed, Studio 54-style grand opening on Tuesday...

It's a book tailor-made for its times.

"People tend to see things now as clips," says Vanity Fair blogger and author Marc Spitz. "We live in a YouTube culture where we see things in shapes and vignettes."

So he structured Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue to appeal to an...

Almost as quickly as it arrived and changed our world, Postmodernism promptly disappeared.

But with a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, it's time now to take a look back at its evolution from provocative architectural movement of the early 1970s -- one...

It took nine months before Michael McCarthy and Marcia Myers fully realized what they'd actually purchased in Harbor Springs, Michigan. "We saw this white house listed on the Internet with a lot of glass looking out at the lake," says Myers, who, along with her husband, had searched for years...

Stanley Tigerman has always had a way with words.

Back in 1979, his witty design for a Museum of Modern Art exhibit called "Buildings for Best Products" was perhaps the most ironic in a group of groundbreaking postmodern showroom designs by Robert A. M. Stern, Michael Graves, Charles...

Bruce Livingstone may be the undiscovered artist's best friend, ever.

The CEO of Saatchi Online, his goal is to discover artists, introduce them to the public and collect their work before it becomes outrageously expensive.

"Charles Saatchi told me when I started that there are about 2,500 to 3,000 artists...

It traces its roots to an inspired conversation between victorious revolutionaries Che Guevara and Fidel Castro on an abandoned, suburban Havana golf course in January 1961.

Those were heady days. The pair had already defeated Batista, booted the Americans and...

Veronika Rovegno is turning personal tragedy into a humanitarian tool.

A 30-year-old native of Tanzania, she grew up in Kenya, and now makes her home in New York. In 1999, her sister died of sickle cell anemia while awaiting medical help at an inadequate Tanzanian health care facility.

"She went...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is 75 years old this year and its director, Lynda Waggoner, is celebrating with a sumptuous new book of essays and photography addressing the residence, its restoration and its landscape.

During the home's 50th anniversary, Waggoner worked with photographer Christopher Little on a commemorative volume for...