For patrons and builders, from Emperor Augustus—who used marble temple building to shore up the ... the ambitions of the university he founded—classical architecture’s associations with ...

In a wonderful example of historic reuse, the tenant today is Equinox Fitness. The Neo-Gothic Russ Building towers over the classical Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.

Most tourists marvelling at the monumental relics of ancient Greece or Rome, from the Parthenon to the Pantheon, haven’t got a clue about the classical ... with this book, drawing on his decades ...