Nineteen forty-seven marked a rupture amid ongoing waves of movement and displacement in South Asia’s modern history. The year saw independence from British rule, which also delivered two Partitions, ...

Central Europe has long been a crossroads of cultures, where Eastern and Western influences collide in fascinating ways. From ...

Architory organizes and presents over 100 notable architects and their works from the Renaissance to the modern era, using carefully selected images and written commentary. Architory is a simple but ...

China's building boom has revealed a curious cultural disconnect. Amid a resurgence of national pride, Chinese leaders have chosen foreign architects for signature projects such as the Beijing ...

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For the past year the Soviet Government has been carrying out a drastic purge of the USSR Academy of Architecture because of the allegedly "pro-Western, pro-American and general cosmopolitan outlook ...

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Though architectural history courses and texts now feature prehistoric, native, and non-Western architecture, as a rule, time spent on the rich, longstanding tradition of East Asian building arts is ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. Origin myths,” “founding myths,” and “creation legends” provide a way for us to see into and imagine the distant past in metaphorical, poetic, and ...