Building materials must adapt to modern designs. Architects can use vapor barriers help to control moisture in tighter building designs.
‘Drawing After Modernism’ showcases drawings, paintings, prints, and more by the likes of Zaha Hadid, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi, and Bernard Tschumi.
Curving, compartmentalized, and clad in oak, the store’s 120-foot-long display wall acts as both an object of interest and a space-maker.
Designed to passive-house principles, an airy multi-story addition to a Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, rowhouse adds 30 percent more area to the building while requiring only 12 percent additional energy consumption.