It’s like an age-old riddle: What’s tall and sturdy and something you lean on every day? If you guess a balustrade, you’d be right—but that’s probably not the first thing that came to your mind. The ...

"God is in the details," Mies van der Rohe is supposed to have said. He did not simply mean that building details are important; he meant that they are the very soul of architecture. An easy way to ...