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 ...

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 ...

perhaps the largest Classical public building erected in this country since the Fifties, has just been completed in Oxford. After that brief moment in the Eighties when Classicism seemed to have a ...

The former Watt & Shand building on Penn Square is an example of classical revival architecture in the Beaux Art style, featuring strong symmetry, Roman arch windows, deep cornices and a ...