Classical Architecture

Real estate professionals have long known a secret that homeowners often overlook: architectural details matter. Not just aesthetically, though that matters too, but financially. The...

The ancient Greeks believed that certain mathematical relationships possessed inherent beauty, that proportions derived from geometry and nature would satisfy human perception in ways arbitrary...

You’ve felt it, even if you couldn’t explain it. Walking up to certain buildings, something just feels right. The proportions, the balance, the way the...

Stand beneath the Pantheon’s oculus in Rome and look up through the 27-foot opening to the sky above. The coffered concrete dome that frames this...

Walk into almost any parking garage, pass under a highway overpass, or enter a monumental building, and chances are you’re trusting your safety to an...

That triangular element crowning your front door or topping the windows of stately buildings isn’t merely decorative. The pediment, one of classical architecture’s most enduring...

Every classical column tells a story, but the real action happens above the capital. That horizontal band spanning from column to column, the entablature, follows...

You’ve walked past them thousands of times on banks, courthouses, museums, and the grandest residential facades. Those vertical cylinders supporting the porticos of important buildings...

When Thomas Jefferson designed Monticello, he wasn’t merely building a home; he was making an architectural argument about American identity. His embrace of Palladian principles,...

When Leon Battista Alberti and Filippo Brunelleschi revolutionized architecture in 15th-century Florence, they could never have imagined their ideas would shape mansions in Palm Beach,...