Despite dating from the 4th century BC, “The Art of Rhetoric” continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work ...
Continue Reading →Architecture from the fifteenth century to the present has been under the influence of three “fictions.” Notwithstanding the apparent succession of architectural styles, ...
Continue Reading →After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the ...
Continue Reading →Neoliberalism as a wealth redistribution imperative has made property ownership impossible or unprofitable for much of society. Whether in the form of mortgages ...
Continue Reading →For Pier Vittorio Aureli, the return of “austerity chic” is a perversion of what ought to be a meaningful way of life. Charting ...
Continue Reading →Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired ...
Continue Reading →The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shocked observers ...
Continue Reading →Historians generally recognize that the architectural patronage of Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584) provided important examples of Counter- Reformation architecture, and crucial models and criteria ...
Continue Reading →Leo Allatius was a Greek scholar, theologian, and keeper of the Vatican library.His works are listed by Johann Albert Fabricius, in Bibliotheca Graeca (xi. 437), ...
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