Whether it's to start analyzing a detail or impressing someone in conversation, understanding a classical building begins with an awareness of the different classical orders of architecture. In 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 ...

Brunelleschi's dome—more accurately, a replica 3-D printed at one nine-hundredth of the Duomo's original size—sits at the feet of Caroline, an eighth-grader at the venerable all-girls Marymount School ...

The nation’s capital is the only American metropolis where debates still break out periodically between architectural traditionalists and architectural modernists. Why does this debate — once dubbed ...