Over the last few months, free online college courses or casual tutorials offering tips on building design, landscaping and interior decoration have popped up all over social media sites. The choices ...
Confinement makes us more aware of architecture, if only of that little sliver of space in which we find ourselves penned. But so long as we have the internet we can be, like Hamlet, “kings of ...
Chicago’s Driehaus Foundation is on a grant-giving roll. Just a month after awarding sizable legacy grants to a trio of hometown organizations (Preservation Chicago, the Arts Work Fund, and the Better ...
Why, in 2015, would anyone want to build a classical building? The answer: to reconnect present-day architecture and city building with American political ideals, history, and culture. This impulse, ...
Funded by Andrew W. Mellon and the National Endowment for the Humanities foundations as part of the Open Book Program, a collection of classic books, published between 1964 and 1998 are now available ...
What comes to mind when we hear the words classical architecture? The answer to that question is often embarrassingly narrow. The Parthenon and Pantheon are still there, of course, even if the ...
In preserving architecture, there are many possible approaches—ranging from treating a building as a static monument, meticulously restoring it in situ to the point of limiting public access, to more ...
Wesley Paine explains why the Nashville Parthenon is an example of CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE. Wesley Paine explains to Joseph why the Nashville Parthenon is an example of CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE.
President Donald Trump has commissioned architect James McCrery — a prominent figure in the revival of classical architecture and a designer of some of the most beautiful “new traditional” Catholic ...
Section 1. Purpose. The Founders, in line with great societies before them, attached great importance to Federal civic architecture. They wanted America’s public buildings to inspire the American ...