Spurred by the design of Greek temples in the 5th century B.C., this architectural revival movement took hold in the 18th and mid-19th century. Inspired by a trip to Greece in 1758, British architect ...

When our new country was founded, American buildings emulated their European precedents. Then, around 1820, we developed a look of our own. Fittingly for the new republic, it was based on the reuse of ...

Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...

When Isis first arrived on Greek shores in the 3rd century BCE, her new followers had to build sanctuaries appropriate to an Egyptian goddess. In the process of imagining a place for their Greek Isis ...

In the world of architecture, competitions serve as catalysts for innovation and creativity. By promoting the architectural community to contemplate a given theme and intervene in well-defined spaces, ...

On a generous, green site in one of Athens’ smarter northern residential suburbs, a strange concrete presence rises. The long, relatively low structure features unusual, almost retro-futuristic forms, ...

Bristol has its own little Acropolis. Two splendid Greek Revival houses, the Francis M. Dimond House and the Captain Josiah Talbot House, sit on the block of Hope St. between Bradford and Franklin ...

3D-printed "broken" columns join walls and floors created with an adobe effect at the Egeo restaurant in Valencia by interiors studio Masquespacio that aims to put a modern spin on traditional Greek ...