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 ...

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 ...

Paterson has held an interest in both ancient Greek narratives and NYC architecture since childhood. In her piece Atlas & Rivington (pictured above) the titan Atlas does not hold up the globe, but a ...

Architectural Digest editorial staff were not involved with the creation of this content. Villa Paros offers a rare cohesion of Mediterranean architecture with desert landscapes. Set on a ...

A few weeks ago, in the seminar I teach on architecture and film, we screened The Fountainhead, the 1949 classic drawn from the book of the same title by Ayn Rand. Its protagonist, played with ramrod ...

Turkey is a place rich in history and beauty, dotted with millennia-old cities, many of which originated from ancient Greek ...

That inspiration was visible in her recent collection, Hellenic Charms. “I wanted to pay homage to Greece and to Athens,” she ...

Abstract The problem of housing in refugee Greece of modern times was recognized, admittedly, as the primary and urgent matter. This significance, moreover, emerged as a logical consequence of the ...