Henry Darger worked as a hospital custodian. After his death in 1973, hundreds of his illustrations were discovered. Brooklyn Taxidermy/flickr, CC BY Vernacular art is a genre of visual art made by ...
Vernacular architecture, the simplest form of addressing human needs, is seemingly forgotten in modern architecture. However, due to recent rises in energy costs, the trend has sensibly swung the ...
© Creative Commons user AngMoKio licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Where do people live around the world? It seems self-evident that most residential architecture is not ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Vernon Burton argues for "The South" to be studied as a distinctive region of the United States Geographers organize areas of the earth ...
As the Great Philosopher, Mike Tyson said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” The COVID-19 pandemic will deeply impact the world of aesthetics. For the first time since League ...
Local building is like local food: Adapted to the climate, the local environment, a product of the local culture developed over time. Thanks to the refrigeration revolution, now you get McDonalds in ...
Dominique Moody, “Ancestral Praise House” (1996), mixed media (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — My paternal grandmother died when I was five years old, before I could make a ...
In the ever-evolving landscape of Indian advertising, a seminal shift is underway. The once-dominant approach of crafting campaigns primarily in Hindi and English is giving way to a more nuanced, ...