Driving in the hills of California, you often can see glints of sunlight bouncing off the windows and metallic surfaces of homes nestled in the tree tops and bluffs. Unsurprisingly, many of these ...

Frank Lloyd Wright would approve of the budding sustainability movement in architecture. Architecture is quickly becoming greener, and architects are taking a variety of multidisciplinary approaches ...

For nineteenth-century American architects and theorists who sought a modern aesthetic, nature provided the only sound philosophy. Ask the fact for the form, Emerson wrote, confident that nature would ...

Science fiction is full of intriguing structures, from floating cities to organic megastructures that often make us wonder if these types of "buildings" could be feasible in our world. These ...

We've come a long way from the cave as creatures who love the comfort of shelter. But as our technological advances propel us to a world where nature is continuously left behind, we are starting to ...

In 1968, legendary architect Alex Riley built his own house overlooking Tomales Bay in Inverness of West Marin. As with his other projects, the 1,000-square-foot house is based on principles of ...

Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, architect of distinctive buildings drawn from nature, died in San Diego on Feb. 16. He was 89. While his work was never broadly recognized, it was published internationally and ...