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 ...
Washington — a city built from scratch to be the nation’s capital — has always been a battleground for a so-called “American architecture.” From the city’s creation in the 1790s, grandiose classical ...
My previous piece for The American Conservative concerned the mayhem postwar “urban renewal” wrought in Washington, D.C.’s southwest quadrant. A conspicuous feature of that mayhem is the Robert C.
A few weeks ago, in the seminar I teach on architecture and film, we screened The Fountainhead, the 1949 classic drawn from the book of the same title by Ayn Rand. Its protagonist, played with ramrod ...
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 ...
Shortly after Donald Trump’s election and his own appointment as Uncle Sam’s chief architect, David Insinga cited his involvement with the design and construction of a federal courthouse in Cedar ...
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 ...
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