The most surprising part of visiting the Charles Hayden Memorial Library at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is going inside. From the exterior, the stalwart ...

Just as fashion designers use pins, needles and textiles to bring their creations to life, architects rely on materials to shape our built environment. From steel and glass to wood and concrete, these ...

For one recent assignment, Stephen Leet, professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, asked graduate students enrolled in his Design ...

Shaw’s Tim Conway recently spoke with the Lab's director, Alison Mears, about how it is raising awareness about building material ingredients and educating the next generation of designers and ...

In the new Phaidon book “Concrete Architecture,” Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores, but, they ...

Acelab and mindful MATERIALS are proud to announce a strategic partnership that integrates Acelab’s innovative Materials Hub platform with mindful MATERIALS’s industry-leading Common Materials ...

As annual wildfire seasons around the world become increasingly intense and longer in duration, residential builders are considering how to create homes that can withstand this unpredictability and ...

David and Mary Gamble with architect Charles Greene (left) (ca. 1907), visiting the site of their future Pasadena residence (all images from the Greene & Greene Archives, courtesy The Huntington ...