100 Ideas That Changed Architecture

How the art and science of building evolved along the parallel axes of the philosophical and the pragmatic

BY MARIA POPOVA

100 Ideas That Changed Architecture, Richard Weston, Author

“Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use,”

legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously observed. Indeed, this convergence of practicality and beauty is perhaps the central defining characteristic of architecture itself, and of…

Read Full Article »