Home, as historian Witold Rybczynski puts it in his book Home, brings together the "meanings of house and of household, of dwelling and of refuge, of ownership and of affection". Somewhere, this vision turned into a two-bed edge-of-town starter box: but

Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. Grist talks to urbanist Wi

And on the seventh day He rested — Genesis Guy opens his refrigerator and sees a rabbit just sitting there. Guy says to the rabbit: "What are you doing in my refrigerator?" Rabbit says: "This is a Westinghouse, isn't it?" Guy says: "Why yes it is." Rabbi

A row of skinny, stucco-clad houses built in the mid-1800s in Montreal seems an unlikely example of cutting-edge architectural principles. The nondescript two- and three-storey homes on St. Madeleine Street in the neighbourhood of Point St. Charles were

“Get smart. Go to the library. Don’t read magazines.” Such was Michael Graves’ advice to young architects last month during a panel at “Reconsidering Postmodernism,” a real doozy of a conference organized by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art

Witold Rybczynski: "The French firebrand Le Corbusier was one of my early heroes, and I thought something along his line [i.e. , white concrete] would be just the thing. I had to admit it was a little stark, especially when I added the delicately colo