Galleria di Diana in Venaria Royal Palace, an example of Classical architecture. The Classical Language is an example of an "extremely successful form language". Image Courtesy of shutterstock.com ...

There was also the question of style. The pattern language calls for architectural features such as sheltering roofs and small window panes, while Modernist design favors flat roofs and large ...

Daniel Libeskind is an international figure in architecture and urban design. His practice extends from building major cultural and commercial institutions to opera sets and object design.

context and articulation also appear in the language of architecture. Moreover, many of the bromides of good communication - be clear, be concise, make your point and get out - apply to design as ...

The literal “diagram” comes from the Latin diagramma (design, layout), and this ... (which can be used to describe both architecture and language) comes from the Latin vernaculus (native ...

But A Pattern Language’s delicately observed, deftly reasoned, poetically presented alternative to the sleek cynicisms of modern architecture has turned to the offense, attacking with the ...

In “The Language of Architectural Classicism,” Edward McParland insists otherwise. An architectural historian and former pro-chancellor at Trinity College Dublin, Mr. McParland considers his ...