Mark Kaufman of GTM Architects in Bethesda, Maryland, said a contemporary library shouldn’t be overly ornate. “It doesn’t use heavy crown and wood profiles to create emphasis,” he said.

Contemporary is the term used for architecture of the 21st century. Unlike some other architectural periods, contemporary isn’t a movement, but a style reflecting the trends of the time a home ...

And as well as the contemporary extension ... Tucked snugly into a mezzanine space, Concourse House children’s library has been designed by NYC-based Michael K. Chen Architecture (MKCA) for ...

Brooklyn Public Library has unveiled designs for a dramatically reimagined modern library in New Lots that nods to the site’s history as an African burial ground, set to replace the currently standing ...

That of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, as Selldorf Architects understood it, was to exhibit California’s art in a Californian way—i.e., relaxed, without pretense or formality ...

How did modern architecture develop to its present state? Three new monographs trace that path, even if they don’t cover every direction the field has taken over the last century. Mies van der ...

The Architecture Highlights Tour starts downtown, across the street from the visitors center at the First Christian Church, built in 1942, the city’s first foray into modern architecture.

Entering the Sterling Memorial Library still feels like traveling to the past ... which became a lively center for the debate surrounding modern art and architecture in the 1930s and 40s. Subsequently ...

The Harvard Graduate School of Design displayed “Envisioning Cluny: Kenneth Conant and Representations of Medieval Architecture ... curator at the GSD’s Loeb Library, described Conant ...