QDEAR TIM: The house I grew up in has slate tile that seemed to be a random mix of squares and rectangles. I'd like to install this material in my home. Is that a job that a beginner can tackle ...

Last month, the architect and author Christopher Alexander received the Vincent Scully Prize, given annually by the National Building Museum “to recognize exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism ...

You’ve probably walked on imprinted concrete and never known it. It may have looked like a cobblestone walkway or a flagstone terrace or a driveway made of paving stones, but it was the same stuff ...