The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s new book, “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...

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.

Walter Ulbricht had a somewhat morbid interest in architecture and ordered the surviving parts of the building completely demolished (along with Potsdam’s town palace and the University Church in ...

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 ...

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 ...