Architecture & Design

Architecture is the art form nobody can avoid, since everyone lives inside some of it. This category covers the buildings that draw crowds, the styles worth being able to recognise from the street, and the technical changes, steel frames and lifts among them, that made new shapes possible. It runs from Rome to the Bauhaus to the modern skyline. The explanations connect a style to the problem it was solving, because most architectural movements began as an argument about how people should live rather than as a decorative preference. Enough to make a walk through any old city more interesting.