What the Capitol Says: American Neoclassicism
...established through the timeless principles of liberty and order...
Paris Notre-Dame: What the Fire Revealed
I have stood inside Notre-Dame three times, and each time it has been a different building. The first time I stood inside the cathedral was…
The American South: Three States, Three Campuses, One Tornado
The American South carries a history that shouldn't be forgotten. It happened. We can't erase it. What we can do is preserve the beauty it…
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La Lonja de la Seda: Valencia’s Temple of Trade
Light streams between a forest of spiral stone columns. Each one twists upward, branching into a delicate web of ribbed groin vaults overhead — the…
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The National Mall: Reading the Axis
In 1791, a French-born engineer handed the new American republic a plan for its capital that it has spent two centuries trying to live up…
How to Visit Vatican City
Vatican City is the world's smallest country — an independent city-state entirely surrounded by Rome, home to the Pope, the Catholic Church's central administration, and…
Valencia Doesn’t Announce Itself. It Reveals Itself.
We arrived at night, exhausted after a long day of travel. The metro from the airport let us out at Colón, where we surfaced into…
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