Masoud Akbarzadeh (left), a professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, is working with students to design concrete structures that use as little concrete as possible while remaining ...

Structural engineer Webb Yates has completed its first structural stone building for a commercial developer. Thomas Lane reports on the firm's 20-year mission to establish stone as a sustainable alter ...

Tips for upgrading your work space and feeling both more organized and more creative. By Megan O’Sullivan The rooms of the interior designer Sean Leffers’s West Hollywood home are filled with his own ...

A transfer slab is simply a thick reinforced concrete floor slab where a column sits on top of a slab but does not have a column immediately below. In other words, it bridges between supporting ...

January 13, 2026 • Adams announced in May that he was dying of metastatic prostate cancer. Thousands of newspapers carried his strip satirizing office culture starting the '90s, until a controversy in ...

Structural engineer Webb Yates has completed its first structural stone building for a commercial developer and launched a ...

His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence was more seductive — and intentional — than many critics appreciated. By Walker Mimms The artist isn’t known for her ...

When you create, you’re showing the world how you see things. Students like you choose RIT because they recognize that combining technology, art, and design can be the key to unlocking new forms of ...

Protein design (or protein engineering) is a technique by which proteins with enhanced or novel functional properties are created. Proteins can be engineered by rational design, which typically uses ...

The Vignelli Center for Design Studies is a hub of research, education, and creative inspiration that houses over 750,000 artifacts across all fields of design. Iconic works by Lella and Massimo ...

The School of Art & Design is a vibrant community of artists, designers, and scholars. Here, we create new knowledge in, through & and about the arts & design every day. What sets us apart is our ...

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