CHICAGO — “There’s no place for originality in architecture! Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past!” Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The ...

The film "The Brutalist" suggests architecture is about the imposition of one person's vision - but in fact, most buildings are the result of meetings where community residents, designers, lawyers and ...

CHICAGO — “There’s no place for originality in architecture! Nobody can improve on the buildings of the past!” Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The ...

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This week on arts24's film show, critic Manon Kerjean from Lost in Frenchlation joins us to explore four very different ...

“The making of a good building,” observed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “is a great moral performance.” Like many notable quotes about architecture, it speaks to grandeur, permanence, scale. One ...

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Before Netflix, streaming videos and television, most people got their entertainment at a vaudeville/movie theater. These “palaces” were places to see and be seen. The Mission district was the home to ...

Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” adapted by Rand, contractually protected from studio meddling, from her 1943 bestseller about the ...

I should be happy. It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central subject, and this ...