The Japanese term Wabi Sabi describes a basic concept that emphasizes a partnership with Mother Nature, harmony with the seasons, unpretentious and a foundation in all things organic. The house Clark in Salt Lake City, beautifully expresses this concept through its subtle design, climate-sensitive landscaping, indoor environment, particularly in the way building owners approached from [...]

The new words in the fashion of the 21st century, organic, green, sustainable, have flooded today architectural vocabulary despite their indifference to the definition. When you get down to it, whether a work of green architecture is usually a shade of gray. Architect Charlotte Skene Catling, director of the firm Skene Catling de la Peña, [...]

Form follow function, that’s which must be always remembered when we will designing a house. The holiday home or summer-house by definition, is a building constructed with a strictly defined personality. For the temporary inhabitant, it is to provide a sense of escape without abandonment, and leisure without effort. It’s very existence is to promote [...]

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright created the Guggenheim Museum as a series of organic shapes. Circular forms spiral down down like the interior of a nautilus shell. Visitors to the museum begin on the upper level and follow a sloping ramp downward through connected exhibition spaces. [...]

The General Mills Corporate Campus, originally designed by S.O.M. Architects, is a statement of 1950s modernism juxtaposed against a pastoral landscape. With the acquisition of the Pillsbury Corporation, the campus needed to expand quite substantially to accommodate the influx of new employees.