Fresh out of undergraduate school at the University of Virginia in the late 1980s - and facing the reality of a recession - Thomas Woltz leapt at the chance to teach architecture at the school's summer program in Vicenza.

By summer's end, he'd secured a job with Giorgio Bellavitis Architects...

There's little wonder that Hugh Hardy's new book covers such a diverse mix of projects.

The architect studied at Princeton in the 1950s, then worked with Broadway scenic designer Jo Mielziner, followed by a stint with Eero Saarinen on the Vivian Beaumonth Theater at Lincoln Center.

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For a museum that's moved four times in 12 years, life really is about the journey and not the destination.

So the Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles is urging those who attend its annual gala this year to "Celebrate the Journey."

Forty architects have responded to the museum's...

He was a friend of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, and close to Andy Warhol too, painting alongside the Pop master in the 1980s with Jen-Michel Basquiat.

But 61-year-old Francesco Clemente is still with us - still painting, still aware of the constant flux of this world and still among the...

At a cool $29.5 million, it's not for the faint of heart.

But then again, Moraga Vineyards Estate in Bel Air, right in the middle of Los Angeles, not only offers award-winning wines but a taste of Hollywood history too.

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For Richmond, Va. art director Ann Rudy, a recent class in narrative collage turned quickly into a cathartic experience.

In October, she signed up for a course at the Studio School of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, with instructor Chuck Scalin, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor emeritus.

Through the...

After seven years online (and three million views) the first issue of Wayfare magazine is now in print.

It's been created by two partners -- a writer/editor and a photographer/creative director -- dedicated to idea that travel can be easy and efficient, even on the run.

"We...

For the past six decades, 85-year-old Alex Katz has documented - in a style that sometimes seems influenced by billboards or CinemaScope - a changing world of American art, literature and dance.

He's not a pop artist or a photo realist or an abstract expressionist. But while...

It all started with the idea of a Super Bowl commercial to promote the real Kentucky.

"We wanted to put it on the biggest stage in the world," says Whit Hiler of ad agency Cornet IMS in Lexington.

"We wanted to do it for the buzz, to get people...

As it turns out, Tom Buchanan was right.

The brusque and sturdy polo player was perfectly blunt while pontificating on the fate of American civilization in the first chapter of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

"The idea is if we don't look out the whole white race will be...

In late October, the Boston-based architecture firm Höweler + Yoon won Audi's Audi Urban Future Award competition handily, trumping high-octane firms from Istanbul, Mumbai, Sao Paolo and China's Pearl River Valley. Their entry approached the global problem of increasing road traffic with an elegant, revolutionary solution.

If an art student can't find inspiration in Provence, it's probably time to look for a new career.

High atop a hill in the tiny town of Lacoste, overlooking the Luberon Valley in the south of France, the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has restored...

Born in 1943, Swiss architect Mario Botta began his design career at age 16. He hasn't looked back since. As a young designer, he worked as an assistant to both Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. His work has been called both modern and classical, and he's also identified with the...

Well, that didn't take long.

Dwell, the San Francisco-based media company, established its beachhead in Manhattan just 12 months ago. Now it's partnering with New York magazine for a week of events culminating in a self-guided home tour this weekend. Five modern abodes in the city will...

Artist Sargam Griffin's epiphany arrived, appropriately enough, in Rome.

"It was in the Vatican, of all places," she says. "You know, 25,000 people a day go down to the Sistine Chapel, but I was in a museum apartment there, with just contemporary works of art - sculptures...

As a young architect, Swiss-born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret primarily worked in furniture and interior design. After he moved to Paris in the early 1920s and adopted his new moniker, Le Corbusier developed a particular interest in "equipement," a term he coined for essential furnishings of a residence. Now, Corbu expert Arthur...

Now that the political struggles have settled somewhat at The University of Virginia, it's time to get down to what's really important at Mr. Jefferson's academical village:

The renovation of his beloved Rotunda.

The architect calls his new Maritime Experiential Museum (MXM) "a sleeping giant." In fact, it's a metaphor and a celebration for the ships that once plied the highly profitable seagoing Silk Route between Indonesia and Oman.

MXM is located at Resorts World Sentosa, directly across Keppel Harbor...

The assignment was nothing if not formidable:

Create a new restaurant inside Frank Lloyd Wright's crowning achievement on Fifth Avenue in New York.

"There was nowhere to hide," says architect Andre Kikoski. "It was either going to be great -- or a disaster."

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...