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The Rio de Janeiro native has worked on both contemporary and classical interiors since opening her Manhattan interior design firm in 1992.

International Design from Cristiana Mascarenhas

Mike Welton February 19, 2020

They’ve got the vernacular, the scale and the proportion of residential work down pat, and they know their way around the codes and regulations.

An Architectural Promenade on Nantucket

Mike Welton February 17, 2020

Never an institution to shrink from a challenge, SITE soon will display, in its new digs by SHoP, an exhibition called “Displaced: Contemporary Artists Confront the Global Refugee Crisis.”

SITE Santa Fe and the Global Refugee Crisis

Mike Welton February 14, 2020

She launched her career when she redesigned her mother’s apartment at The Dakota.

Sasha Bikoff: The New World for New Ravenna

Mike Welton February 12, 2020

The Walker Guest House is a stunning example of Paul Rudolph’s architecture, but it’s on Sanibel Island and the owners didn’t t want visitors

Auction: Rudolph’s Walker Guest House Replica

Mike Welton February 10, 2020

Blair Kamin’s newest book, “Amherst College: The Campus Guide,” paints a telling picture of his alma mater – with the buildings that populate it.

An Architectural History of Amherst College

Mike Welton February 7, 2020

Since 1821, the college has evolved from South Hall, built by local townspeople, to Italianate and Gothic structures, to a classical Palladian scheme, to a soon-to-come 21st-century campus center by Herzog & de Meuron.

From Blair Kamin, a Tour of Amherst College

Mike Welton February 5, 2020

What these three – Robert McCarter, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Kenneth Frampton – want to communicate with this book is how MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects approaches a site to push a building out of its environment.

Economy as Ethic: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple

Mike Welton February 3, 2020

Sara Baldwin takes her cues from the best of the best. like Istanbul's Hagia Sofia, that sixth-century Greek Orthodox basilica-turned-mosque-turned museum.

Sara Baldwin’s Gilt by Association

Mike Welton January 31, 2020

HIs book is a visual representation of Hemingway's memoir, "A Moveable Feast."

Retracing Hemingway’s Steps in Paris

Mike Welton January 29, 2020

In May 2014, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville opened an exhibition of portrait photography by musician Marty Stuart

Photographic Portraits by Marty Stuart

Mike Welton January 27, 2020

Lately he’s been focusing on the areas around Rocky Mount, Tarboro, Greenville and Wilson, and in Nash and Edgecombe counties.

Painting the Rural Carolina Landscape

Mike Welton January 24, 2020

Architecture is his chosen subject matter, though he has recorded two major royal events: the wedding of HRH Prince William to Catherine Middleton, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Painting the Fireworks from St. Mark’s Bay

Mike Welton January 22, 2020

There wasn’t much vernacular architecture to draw from in downtown New Rochelle, so the architects created their own language.

Millennial Living in Downtown New Rochelle

Mike Welton January 20, 2020

In Rotterdam, when an influential socialist paper of record folded a few years back, its building first found a few young tenants – then went vacant.

In Rotterdam, New Life for a Newspaper Office

Mike Welton January 17, 2020

Collaborators included landscape architect Susannah Drake and her firm, dlandstudio.

ARO Rethinks the Water around Manhattan

Mike Welton January 15, 2020

The architects applied passive strategies like natural ventilation for cooling – with a riff on traditional tobacco barns’ louvered doors – to control drafts.

In Kentucky, Two Barns of Steel and Bamboo

Mike Welton January 13, 2020

“Mike Welton is a natural writer. The craft of his language is equal to the craft of the buildings and artifacts he writes about. He is the Vasari of the contemporary scene. I read Architects + Artisans as much for the beauty of his prose as I do for the cool things he writes about. He’s the real thing. Mike discovers in each window, each bench and each type of building a unique expression of architecture.” — Frank Harmon, FAIA, Principal, Frank Harmon Architect, Author: “Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See,” Raleigh, N.C.

For A+A’s 10th Anniversary, a Look Back

Mike Welton January 10, 2020

During the summer of 1972, with project architect Tod Williams on site and Richard Meier in his New York studio, the pair traded initial sketches back and forth.

A Website Dedicated to the Douglas House

Mike Welton January 8, 2020

“Architects + Artisans cuts a broad swath – it gets down in the trenches and then takes us back up to the sky, in both critical and insightful ways. I love that cross-section. It’s a very thoughtful curation of architecture, materials and design – and incredibly well done.” — Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, Principal, Marlon Blackwell Architects, Fayetteville, Ark., Recipient of the 2020 AIA Gold Medal Award

A Decade of Design at Architects + Artisans

Mike Welton January 6, 2020

“We asked for submissions and received thousands,” says CEO Lisa Bayne. “We then edited them down to a collection of 176 ornaments by more than 70 artists.”

Handmade Ornaments for the Holidays

Mike Welton December 20, 2019

The 2025 Listing of Top Coastal Architects, from Ocean Home Magazine

4 days ago by Mike Welton

From Ocean Home Magazine, the 2025 Listing of Top Coastal Architects

October 22, 2025 by Mike Welton

On a San Diego Peninsula, California Coastal Meets a World of Art

October 17, 2025 by Mike Welton

‘Moon over Modernism’ and the Winners of the 2025 Matsumoto Prize

October 10, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Ocean Home: A Home Dedicated to Surfing on the North Shore of Kaua’i

October 3, 2025 by Mike Welton

Clayton Korte Designs a Modern Wine Cellar in Texas Hill Country

September 29, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Clayton Korte, a Monograph on the Hill Country Wine Cave

September 26, 2025 by Mike Welton

Last Chance to See The Susan Grant Lewis Collection at the Paul Rudolph Institute in NYC

September 19, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Ocean Home Magazine, an Ode to the Shingle Style by Patrick Ahearn Architect

September 12, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Monograph on the Highland Park Residence by Afterstudio Architects

September 8, 2025 by Mike Welton

In a Tony Dallas Neighborhood, Afterstudio Architecture Creates a Home and Studio

September 5, 2025 by Mike Welton

‘Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration’ at the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida

September 2, 2025 by Mike Welton

At the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida, ‘Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration’

August 29, 2025 by Mike Welton

Rammed Earth for the 21st Century Featured in Big Sky Journal’s HOME Edition

August 25, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Period Homes Magazine, a Secluded Residential Compound in Buckhead

August 22, 2025 by Mike Welton

On the North Carolina Coast, the Curious Facts Concerning Cottage Time

August 18, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Team of Designers Leaves No Trace behind in a Duxbury Bay Compound

August 15, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Down-at-the-Heels Midcentury Modern Gets a 21st-Century Reprieve

August 11, 2025 by Mike Welton

Atlanta’s Point Office Respects the Coastal Vernacular of Figure Eight Island Architecture

August 8, 2025 by Mike Welton

At New Ravenna, Glass and Stone Mosaics Inspired by the Seaside

August 4, 2025 by Mike Welton