Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, was working in his office when a student knocked on ...

Editor’s Note: Mark Foster Gage is an American architect and founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York. He is also a professor of architecture at Yale University School of Architecture.

Concrete is typically the default building material for tall structures, thanks to its strength and cost-effectiveness. But there’s one big trade-off: Heft. Conventional concrete construction requires ...

They soar impossibly skyward, their spires pierce clouds, and their stained glass transforms sunlight into kaleidoscopes of color. Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest ...

If we learned anything from the recent fire and reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris, it is that the building of a Gothic cathedral depends on countless prosaic operations—the felling of oak trees, ...

Opened last spring on the periphery of the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus, the Daniels Building is an approximately 700,000-square-foot academic building for the Daniels Faculty of ...

In 1945, with enrollment up almost 50 percent since the pre-war era, the Class of 1915 committed to building a new dormitory. Because materials and labor were in short supply, costs ballooned. The ...

A 96-year-old Collegiate Gothic building on the DePaul University campus is being considered Thursday for preliminary landmark status. The city’s landmarks commission will decide whether to grant the ...

Nothing has disappointed me more than Princeton’s recent architectural failures. New College West and Yeh look terrible: They are dull, rectangular, and prison-like. And as columnist Julianna Lee ...

A couple of weeks ago I made an unplanned visit to a college that it’s probably best to leave unnamed. It’s an institution whose campus I hadn’t seen in 20 years or so, and time didn’t seem to have ...