Architecture inevitably entails large expenditures of money, and where there is money, there is politics. What might seem like strictly stylistic affinities are rarely only that. For patrons and ...

"There are a million books on the architecture in New York, Chicago, LA, but when you get outside of those main population centers to other places — Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland — that were big ...

Classical Books explores the interface between the history of books and the history of classical scholarship. Its contributors investigate the background to the production of texts, editions, ...

Vol. 11, No. 2, PATHS TO FREEDOM: Studies in French Classicism in honor of E. B. O. Borgerhoff (Summer 1971), pp. 169-186 (18 pages) Published By: The Johns Hopkins University Press L’Esprit Createur ...

Most tourists marvelling at the monumental relics of ancient Greece or Rome, from the Parthenon to the Pantheon, haven’t got a clue about the classical orders of architecture as they take photographs ...

Abrams excels in providing finely honed books on design and both Magnificent Tiffany silver by John Loring and Traditional Japanese design: five tastes with essays by Michael Dunn and Jun’ichiro ...

Quinlan Terry is often seen as a saviour by people who have lost faith in modern architecture. In the early 1980s, traditionalists cheered when plans for a Modernist "eight-storey glass-and-concrete ...