Computational design has played an influential role in shaping contemporary styles, empowering homegrown architectural firms to experiment with form and structure. + 5 ...

The South’s default collective form of address is the best of the American vernacular. By Maud Newton Growing up in Miami, I dreaded being told that I sounded like a hick. In my teens, a ...

Standing for African American Vernacular English, it includes terms that non-Black individuals should refrain from using. The form of speech evolved within the Black community.

Some Black speakers of African American Vernacular English believe the language has been incorrectly chalked up as new vocabulary started by young people.

In the U.S., vernacular art — which can also be called folk art or outsider art — is dominated by the works of African American, Appalachian and working-class people. In many cases these ...

It’s a whole other Black vernacular form of dance associated with hip-hop,” Culbreath said. “Using that, we’re developing characters out of embodied experiments with tension, specifically cultural ...

The New Life Out There: Electro-graphic Architecture. Tom Wolfe on the all-American vernacular art of the neon sign. From the archives of New York magazine. It first appeared in the December 9 ...

The focal point of Atelier Ars’s Promontory Villa, a sprawling six-bedroom weekend house in the pine-cloaked mountains southwest of Guadalajara, Mexico, is a totemic stone chimney rising 23 feet into ...