Casting a critical eye at banks that resembled Roman temples, the great Chicago architect Louis Sullivan famously wrote nearly 120 years ago that their bankers should wear togas and sandals, and ...

Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” adapted by Rand, contractually protected from studio meddling, from her 1943 bestseller about the ...

It’s easy these days to think of California as a republic unto itself, declaring its political and cultural independence at every opportunity, zigging as Donald Trump’s America zags. But the state’s ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines revival as “renewed attention or interest in something.” Classical Revival is the first of many revival styles to appear on the architectural scene in Lancaster ...

The Italianate style may be more American than Italian when it comes to measuring its popularity between 1850 and 1890. Considered a “picturesque style” for its reference to the Old World and Italian ...

A primer on columns from the architect Gil Schafer.

The first time you see Jacob and Monica’s house in “Minari,” it’s from the vantage point of a moving car. Images of bucolic landscape hugging a country lane give way to an open field. In the middle of ...