I am deeply disturbed by “Chaos and Classicism,” a survey of the arts in Europe from the end of World War I to the beginning of World War II that is currently at the Guggenheim. I know many people ...
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 ...
SOUTH BEND, Ind.—A year and a half hence, about the time the leafy Notre Dame campus begins to display brilliant autumn hues, budding architects and their mentors will move into a new building near ...
Classicism is a broad river that has run through Western architecture for two-and-a-half millennia. A generation ago it seemed that the stream had reduced to a trickle. Only a small phalanx of ...
Whatever the fate of a proposed executive order designating the classical and other traditional architectural styles as America’s “preferred” modes for courthouses and office buildings, while ...
In the heart of Tallinn, where history weaves through cobblestone streets and ancient towers, stands the Ungern-Sternberg Palace — a monument that bridges the opulent past of Estonia's aristocracy ...
Boilerplate is safe box office, and we’ve gotten our share lately. So it’s great that the Guggenheim Museum is giving us the opposite in its major fall exhibition, “Chaos and Classicism: Art in France ...
Modernist architects who want to design buildings for the federal government may have dodged a bullet when Joe Biden was declared the winner over Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election over ...
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Classicism-architecture in Copenhagen in the age of C.F. Hansen' in the Round Tower, 6 September-1 November 1998"--Colophon. CLASSICISM IN COPENHAGEN : ...