Our memories of his early work explain why people like myself, who regarded post-modern architecture as one more instance of American social insecurity gone awry, exempted him.

By removing people from buildings, architectural photography makes it possible to regard architecture as an abstraction, unrelated to humans.

During the Cold War era, Atlanta embraced global modernist trends, especially regarding commercial and institutional architecture.

But the fallacy of formalism is not in regarding architecture as an art.

Instead, it has continued to regard architecture as an alien presence, an immanent invasion from Mars.

They have a relaxed, European attitude toward matters of style and they share a generational impulse to challenge conventions, like the taboo on regarding architecture as art à la mode.

Bernini's approach to building could hardly be described as conventional, for he regarded architecture as an artistic enterprise.

A native of Vienna, where he was a schoolmate and close friend of Freud's son Ernst, Neutra regarded architecture as a form of therapy.

Reissued in 1994, the book changed the way many architects, students and historians regard modern architecture.

Unlike picturesque Lexington Avenue, an architectural paradise of odd shops and brownstones, Third Avenue on the Upper East Side is a comparative desert to the pedestrian's eye, at least regarding older architecture.