The humble shoe, literally our lowest item of clothing, must fit us perfectly. Our body protests loudly if it does not. Still, it is taking perfectionism to the extreme to insist that the buildings of ...

A modern factory is a far cry from Henry Ford’s 1913 assembly line. That plant revolutionized manufacturing, but the introduction of industrial computing in the 1950s marked the beginning of ...

This well-illustrated compendium is a detailed history—fascinating and, to some, unfamiliar—that makes the case that Modernist architecture and design was developed in Michigan, not imported from ...

Design patterns have evolved to solve problems often encountered in software applications. The factory method design pattern and the abstract factory design pattern are both creational patterns.