Thanks to their loud, brash, and nocturnal nature, rock concerts are often held in dark bars and nightclubs designed to withstand the abuse of rowdy fans and guitar-smashing rockers. But as musicians ...

Washington D.C. has earned a reputation for iconic architecture. Emerging from the L'Enfant and McMillan Plans, Washington’s cityscape includes wide streets and low-rise buildings that sprawl out from ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study builds on the premise that local knowledge of limestone—and its workable characteristics—was foundational to landscape inhabitation ...

Archaeological investigations at the minor center of Caobal provide clues about local traditions of civic-ceremonial architecture as well as the relationship between these buildings and broader social ...

Architect Maya Lin was in Jordan in 2009, in the midst of a yearlong trip around the world, when she got a call inviting her to discuss what would become her largest commission to date—a ...

Celebrated architect and artist Maya Lin spoke about the issue of environmentalism and sustainable architecture Thursday afternoon during her keynote address for the 43rd annual conference of the ...

DURING the final days of the Red Army’s fierce battle for Berlin, Yuri Valentinovich Knorosov, a Soviet artillery soldier, found boxes of books in front of the Prussian State Library. Clearly, the ...

Architect Maya Lin is best known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which she designed as a 21-year-old college student. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Lin about ...