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.

Thomas Gordon Smith, an architect and educator who played a key role in the resurgence of classicism in American architecture, passed away in South Bend, Indiana, on June 23. He was 73. Born in ...

The late architect who created inspiring sacred spaces — including prominent Catholic churches in the United States — revealed a bold and radically traditional vision of beauty in building design. (L) ...

Spurred by the design of Greek temples in the 5th century B.C., this architectural revival movement took hold in the 18th and mid-19th century. Inspired by a trip to Greece in 1758, British architect ...

The Catholic college established the four-year bachelor of arts major in 2016. Benedictine College’s classical architecture program builds toward a beautiful future. The Catholic college established ...

Since humans first abandoned their nomadic ways and started building permanent settlements, architecture has been a powerful tool for communicating authority and ideologies. Rulers across millennia ...

20th-Century Man and 20th-Century Art in the United States -- I. "Organic Reality": The Late Victorian "Modern" Generation: c.1885-c.1920 -- 1. The "Rebels": Radicals versus Conservatives before World ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday declaring “classical and traditional” architecture the preferred government styles, reviving and expanding his old fight against modernist ...

Studies the influence of classical architecture, as evidenced by symmetrical proportions, formal arrangements of parts, and formal settings, on American architectural styles; includes examples from ...