When we center an individual such as César Chávez as the symbol of a movement, we must reckon with the full complexity of ...

Artists Donna Thatcher and Suzanne Newhard, working off scaffolding for a week in the spring of 1999, brought the iconic Drake Building back to life with a nine-panel mural where third-floor windows ...

Today our lunchtime assignment was to find interesting pictures of buildings during a cloudy, rainy day. I happen to like the new, mostly glass Jenner & Block law firm building, so I tried to capture ...

“Blessed are the peacemakers,” Jesus taught his followers (Matthew 5:9). “Ubiquitous are the division-makers,” we might justly add. If peacemakers build bridges between divided people-groups, division ...

Last October the American Society of Landscape Architects gave Harvard University’s Tanner Fountain its coveted Landmark Award. The award, given jointly with the National Trust for Historic ...

The Architect Hotel at the southeast corner of 15th and L streets NW already wears an interesting color scheme — its ornate brickwork painted in browns and taupes and blues — but when I came upon the ...