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Having lived well over a decade in the country that founded the metric system, or the SI ( Système internationale d'unités ), I do now ...

We've published two books dealing with Versailles (links here ) and have always approached the château as an architectural and historic...

I am deeply torn by this news : the mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, has proposed that the city erect Michelangelo's design for the mai...

Classical architecture has a rich and intricate symbolic repertoire reaching back to earliest recorded history that today can be compared t...

One of the most evocative symbols of summer is the garden tent, so it's the perfect subject for July's first post. In the late ei...

Buildings such as this are the reason we chose to dedicate our work to garden architecture: their garden settings allow their architects a ...

In their May issue, our friends at Architectural Digest featured our Architectural Alphabet note cards , bringing a mass influx to our ...

One of the great cultural revelations to occur in the aftermath the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago was the West's redisco...

Andrea Palladio is the most famous architect of the modern world, and here we define modern in opposition to the ancient world (the arch...

At 71 feet tall and weighing 244 tons, the Central Park obelisk, commonly known as Cleopatra's Needle, was one of a pair carved from pi...