On the morning of April 10, 1932, Benito Mussolini drove a shovel into the ground of the Agro Pontino — the ancient malarial swamp south of Rome that Julius…

Hector Guimard is Paris’s most ubiquitous architect. Every person who has taken the Métro has passed through one of his entrances. But beyond the green…

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868 and died there in all but the most literal sense long before 1928. The buildings he designed between…

Alberta iela is eight buildings long. You can walk from one end to the other in three minutes. In those three minutes you pass one of the densest…

The entrance to the Foro Italico — once the Foro Mussolini — is marked by a monolith of Carrara marble seventeen metres tall. Carved into its base, in…

Between the wars Milan built a hard, brilliant new architecture — caught between the avant-garde and a dictatorship. Walk the Rationalist city in a day, and look at it honestly.

You walk past pieces of history every day without stopping to document them. A carved doorway, a ruined mill, a mural that will be painted over next spring.…

Art Nouveau was born in Brussels in 1893, in the iron and glass of Victor Horta. Walk the city that invented it — façade by façade, frites in hand — in a single day.