Architecture

The ‘Earthship’ movement is alive and well in Taos, where an LA-based landscape designer finds harbour in a radical 1980s house

The post-World-War-I spirit of civic optimism inspired the creation of Boulogne-Billancourt’s city hall, heralding what its designers anticipated would be a new gilded age

For centuries now, mosques in some of Turkey’s most isolated settlements have been calling worshippers to prayer – and to admire their supremely charming interiors. Join us as we marvel at the folky, motif-heavy mihrabs and minbars

What’s the balm to pure Brutalism? Since the early 1960s, Venezuelan architect Oscar Tenreiro has been gradually growing his home, Los Aromos in Caracas, into a flowering example of multicultural Modernism that reflects the sprawl of the surrounding city

A hymn to water, courtesy of Mexico’s best-known muralist, enlivens a hydraulic station in the capital, part of a huge infrastructure project in the 1950s

A bold and jagged architectural style emerged after Indonesia’s independence in 1945. Rejecting the rigid forms of Dutch colonial design, Jengki featured sharp angles, asymmetrical roofs and playful shapes in concrete, symbolising a new national identity

Think of the great titan of 20th-century design from Helsinki. Who springs to mind? The architect Alvar Alto, right? Well, we think Aino – his unsung (and long-suffering) wife – has a pretty strong claim on that title too

Malta’s traditional stone may be in perilously short supply these days, but thankfully resourcefulness among the country’s inventors and creatives really isn’t

British Modernist architecture found unlikely full expression in 1960s university buildings, where the brightest minds of the movement experimented wildly with form and technique. Did the results pass the test of time? It’s a matter of degrees, says Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Much of Geoffrey Bawa’s design is about the interplay between interior space and exterior setting. But ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka and, later, the eruption of violence meant that the architect’s house in the capital increasingly took on the air of a small fortress, as if keeping the warring world at bay