A couple of weeks ago, I hiked into a remote patch of the Mojave Desert hoping to experience a newly installed piece of experimental art. Instead, I met a pool guy named Robert. To be fair, I’d been ...

Those Baby Boomers who walked the halls of East Orange High School in the 1960s will remember searching for a swimming pool that, urban legend claimed, had been filled in after some mysterious student ...

A marker tells the history of a segregated pool in Lawrence and community activism against segregation and in support of an integrated public swimming pool. The marker is outside the entrance of the ...

Few architectural typologies have the power to invoke a sense of being dual-natured quite as the modernist swimming pool can. The design of pools themselves implies that there are moments of activity ...