What the Capitol Says: American Neoclassicism
...established through the timeless principles of liberty and order...
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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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…
Monticello: On What Jefferson Borrowed and Why
Jefferson called it his "essay in architecture" — and like most essays, it was revised continually, for most of his adult life, in pursuit of…
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