Classical architecture originated in ancient Greece and Rome, and is characterized by symmetry, columns, rectangular windows, and marble, to name a few. For centuries, ...

The Weaver building’s frontages feature monotonous grids of square windows with steeply sloped sills. They rest on ugly, porcine supports, or pilotis, with narrow triangular slits. The space the ...

Classical architecture is not just about history; it’s also about light, color, and human proportions, all of which help us understand it and relate to it so naturally. “People will not look forward ...

A house in New London, Connecticut, bears certain signatures of Classical Revival architecture, ... rectangular windows. Though the Tudor trend was popular in the US in the 1920s and ’30s, ...

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., will introduce legislation to codify an executive order from former President Trump that made classical architecture the model for government buildings.

Vertical sliding sash windows corresponded with the heroic period of Georgian architecture such that, in Britain, they came to be seen as an essential part of classical design. Its canonical form ...

It continues by stating that classical and other traditional architecture “should be encouraged instead of discouraged”. Reinhold Martin, an architecture professor at Columbia University, ...

Politics Trump revives push to make federal architecture ‘classical’ again. The president’s efforts to remake the federal government extend even to the buildings that house it, as he pushes ...