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, ...

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 ...

The title might suggest that this book follows the lines of John Summerson’s The Classical Language of Architecture (1964), but it certainly does not. Instead it discusses the ways in which this ...

Federal architecture for 60 years embodied the administrative state’s rules and regulations. Imposed by unelected mandarins, federal designs celebrate technocracy and faceless power.

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 ...

School: Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Course: Summer Studio in Classical Architecture Location: New York, USA Course dates: June 2024 to July 2024 Application deadline: 26 February ...