Orson Welles’ film The Trial (1962) is based on a book of the same name by Franz Kafka. The story follows a man named Josef who is charged with a crime but does not know what it is. He is allowed to work and go about his life during the day, never detracting from his input to capitalism.

When considering the Baroque period of European history, piracy is one of many aspects that made it unique: international waters were flooded with pirates during this time.

A trip to the spa might be considered a modern luxury, but wellness centres have been part of human health for thousands of years. The largest Roman imperial baths in history, the Baths of Diocletian, opened in 306 AD after eight years of construction.

Notre-Dame de Paris is a medieval Catholic cathedral that is one of the greatest examples of French Gothic architecture. The cathedral’s formal typology can be considered through the lens of Giulio Carlo Argan’s three typologies of architecture—configuration, structure, and decor.

TikTok is the latest social media platform to make its way into our cellphones and our culture, yet its full effects are largely unrealized. Its various impacts span several fields of study; from a psychological standpoint, one might consider what this app does to its users’ minds and relationships with each other.

Lina Bo Bardi was an Italian immigrant who moved to Brazil in 1946 after she married Pietro Maria Bardi, a respected art historian. While she is best known for her modernist architecture, Bo Bardi also worked as a curator, writer, furniture designer, preservationist and political activist.

The Reliance Building was designed with glazed white terra cotta cladding, which was believed to be self-cleaning; this proved to be untrue, but the pale facade became a staple of the building and a symbol of proto-Modernist architecture.