Muhlenberg College’s Baker Center for the Arts opened in 1976. Allentown, Pa. — One of the pleasures of visiting a college for the first time is the possibility of finding an interesting building you ...

A building does not necessarily have to be “huggable” to merit preservation. That’s how Peg Breen, president of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, makes the case that certain modernist buildings ...

Modernist structures designed by architects with recognizable names like Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe dot the United States. These buildings are studied and praised for ...

A prominent glass-walled tower on the Paterson Silk Retail building was toppled earlier this month, altering the two-story expanse of glass and brick designed by modernist architect Morris Lapidus to ...

Love it? Hate it? Either way, Modernist architecture — like Edward Durell Stone’s work at the State U. of New York at Albany — is an essential part of American architectural history. (Chronicle photo ...

Five modernist buildings designed by Black architects across the United States have been awarded preservation funding through Conserving Black Modernism, an initiative led by the Getty Foundation and ...

Beginning in the 1970s adaptive reuse projects transformed 19th and early 20th Century buildings into distinctive retail destinations. Increasingly, developers of adaptive reuse projects are targeting ...

Getty commits $1.55 million to preserve historic buildings designed by Black architects. The Getty Foundation has partnered with the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National ...

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Conversations about historic preservation are essentially about answering the question, “What things from our past are worth saving?” And, honestly, everyone’s answer is different, especially in San ...