Throughout my early life, my father would get up at 4:30 in the morning, six days a week, for his job as a contractor. I knew his work was taxing from seeing his coarse hands and tired eyes after he ...

When Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney started working to design the downtown riverwalk in 2001, people looked at the Chicago River like they do an alley — something to be avoided. But on warm, ...

The path to becoming an architect takes years of study and training and requires creativity, problem-solving and technical skill to turn design ideas into real spaces. Architects may work across a ...

Re: “Finding a new path in a pandemic: How one Seattle architect went from mansions to tiny homes” [Dec. 3, Local]: I choked up reading about the rapport between Juliette Dubroca and the carpenters ...

Anyone following the architectural profession at the turn of the millennium might be forgiven for thinking that it was all about splashy icons: Frank Gehry’s undulating titanium sails in Bilbao and ...

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Debbie Wolfe is an author and content creator. In addition to being a contributing writer at Forbes, she writes for other leading online home improvement, DIY, and garden media outlets and online ...