A fascinating new history of the English country home

Overdecorated mansions and haunted houses are different facets of the American dream

The new complex aims to foster civic engagement, writes Edwin Heathcote

Foster-designed 305m viewing platform would grow next to Gherkin, if approved

A new building at Houston’s Menil Collection is devoted to a single art form: drawing

An ideal introduction to a Japanese architect whose buildings can be both unforgiving and emotionally charged

Colour, kitsch and ornament are in abundance in an exhibition of pattern in Latin American art and architecture

The reworked space intriguingly embraces the camera as object, as well as images themselves

Lord Foster records third Riba success with £1bn headquarters

At the age of 87, Denise Scott Brown is finally receiving acclaim for her pioneering work

Clients commissioning a new house or an overhaul can receive a nasty surprise

Speakers included Richard Rogers, Shigeru Ban, Jamie Fobert and Ellen van Loon

We have moved on from sterile clinics to centres that blur health, hearth and home

Passive House buildings are set to cut power consumption dramatically

Two renovations show a fine cultural trend in the capital

The brains behind the British Library

A seductive survey of the architect’s oeuvre asks more questions than it answers

How Kengo Kuma’s design for the new outpost was inspired by its Tayside setting

The Finnish capital’s new cultural complex vindicates its decision to forgo a Guggenheim

The character of a city can be determined by the way it approaches its markets