Walter Gropius

The legendary director talks about his wide-ranging reading taste, and some of the books that informed his latest film, which stars Adam Driver as a visionary polymath.

Coppola also said his epic was influenced by H.G. Wells, Studio 54, and 9/11

Claude Stoller (1921–2023) joined the newly formed College of Environmental Design in 1957 at the invitation of founding dean William W. Wurster and he remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1991. In his teaching and his architectural practice, Stoller stressed energy-efficient design and social issues such as housing.

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Readers respond to Benjamin Wallace-Wells's recent Comment, Arthur Krystal's review of "Everything Must Go," and Alex Ross's piece about Alma Mahler-Werfel.

(Editor's note: To mark Westmoreland County's 250th birthday this year, we've come up with a list of 250 things — 10 things in 25 communities — that we consider to be important to the makeup of our area. This series will appear each week through December. If you have a

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A conversation with Zubin Mehta as he returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Mahler's Third, the last work he recorded as music director.

Gregory Ain wanted to create social housing in Los Angeles. Dogged by the FBI, his hope for more egalitarian architecture never came to be.

As World War II approached, New Kensington was truly "The Aluminum City." In 1940, there were 7,500 people employed at ALCOA facilities in the city at the riverfront aluminum works, the powder plant along the river in Plum and at the research center along Freeport Road. Thousands of other support

Alex Ross reassesses Alma Mahler-Werfel, who gave up ambitions of being a composer to marry Gustav Mahler, was later the wife of Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel and the lover of Oskar Kokoschka, and whose romantic life has obscured her achievements as a tastemaker and a mentor.

American architecture's bright, shining light of the Kennedy era, Paul Rudolph was scrounging for commissions less than a decade later.

It's a 40,000-square-foot warehouse. Who's moving in?

Luminaries from Agatha Christie to Walter Gropius gravitated to London's "Lawn Road Flats." So too did a far less conspicuous cohort: assets for the USSR.

Berlin's Gropiusstadt is generally seen as the prototypical satellite city. But Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius imagined a very different path for his brainchild.

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Alex Ross writes about the centenary of Rudolph Schindler's West Hollywood house, considered by some to be the first modern house in the world, and how the architect's delightful experiment in communal living is still an inspiration.

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How Autism Spectrum Disorder and PTSD following World War I shaped 20th century architecture and design.

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