“Contemporary design came out after the midcentury-modern movement,” Sander says. Starting in the 1970s, the style was first seen as more of an amalgamation of various popular aesthetics of the time, ...

Contemporary is the term used for architecture of the 21st century. Unlike some other architectural periods, contemporary isn’t a movement, but a style reflecting the trends of the time a home is ...

The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the Indian Ocean. All along the ridges are the homesteads of the Xhosa people who ...

Mark Hoppus knows music. After all, he’s one third of Blink-182, the pop-punk band which exploded in 1999 with hits like “What’s My Age Again?” and “All the Small Things,” and that—despite breakups, ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. "O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power ...

The term “mid-century modern interior design” conjures myriad images: The airy, Richard Neutra-designed Kaufmann House in Palm Springs that blurs the boundaries between indoor and outdoor living; the ...

As a former filmmaker, the writer Marc Kristal is a natural storyteller, which enlivens his 18 case studies about adding contemporary additions to old houses. The examples, 11 in the United States and ...

At once antithetical and congruent, the old-world architecture and the contemporary distinction of this Greenwich residence render it a unique marvel in a town famed for its splendid homes. "This is ...

Rhodes University provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the ...