The Edith Farnsworth House, in Plano, Illinois, is famous as a pristine, silent, perfect object. But in reality it has always been a leaky, gendered, and contested mess. New York architect...

Theaster Gates, Studio Zewde, and Hines Architecture + Design have been selected to design a new cultural pavilion in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town—a historic community built by formerly enslaved Africans on the...