My previous piece for The American Conservative concerned the mayhem postwar “urban renewal” wrought in Washington, D.C.’s southwest quadrant. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C.
The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s new book, “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Classicism-architecture in Copenhagen in the age of C.F. Hansen' in the Round Tower, 6 September-1 November 1998"--Colophon. CLASSICISM IN COPENHAGEN : ...
From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...
No lonely genius : Inigo Jones and his contemporaries -- Post-restoration Palladianism -- Neo-classicism from Jones to Hawksmoor -- Late seventeenth-century architecture and the Baroque interlude -- ...
301 Pine Street-one of the historic buildings that comprised our financial system on the West Coast-began its life in 1915 as a sub-treasury building for the United States Treasury. In 1930, when the ...
Justin Shubow and Carlo Ratti will debate the recent mandate to design civic buildings in a classical style. (Courtesy National Civic Art Society) “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again: A ...