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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 : ...