"As Frank Lloyd Wright was a master at incorporating the concept of compression and release into his architecture, studying his many residential designs can help architects develop an ...

Architects talk about compression and expansion. It is one of architecture’s fundamental techniques, and it has become a trope. The meaning is vague, but understood by all. Compression and expansion ...

Compression is nature’s glue ... bending around the columns of a 13th-century Venice building at this year's Architecture Biennale. No glue, no mortar, no hidden substructure to ensure the ...