historic buildings

Inside the Conservation Work at the Salk Institute, Louis Kahn’s Masterpiece

Preserving the iconic Salk Institute by the sea.

Sara Lardinois | September 27, 2016

A Los Angeles architect and his Los Angeles buildings.

A scholar finds himself transformed into an unsavory character in a murder mystery.

Victor H. Mair | August 28, 2016

The Getty Foundation funds nine new “Keeping It Modern” projects, including its first in Africa.

A Getty Foundation grant helps keep Michel de Klerk’s brick masterpiece shipshape

A famed sanatorium in Finland gets a new lease on life.

Katie Underwood | April 29, 2016

A new conservation plan supports the life of a UNESCO world heritage site.

The Guggenheim’s divine influence in one writer’s life.

Kathryn Bold | March 1, 2016

“Nature is my teacher, rather than other architecture. I don’t study other people’s work.”

Jane Szita | February 4, 2016

The Athenian monument as structure and symbol.

Gehry has been designing in L.A. since the late 1970s. Here, a few of his projects.

Tristan Bravinder | September 28, 2015

A 1712 print depicts the palace of Versailles as capital of politics and pleasure.

Jeffrey Weaver | August 23, 2015