In an early chapter of his interesting new book, Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature, Marcus du Sautoy describes a visit to the Alhambra, the great Moorish palace in Granada, Spain. He and ...

Budapest-born printmaker and photographer Zsolt Hlinka has created Urban Symmetry, a Wes Anderson reminiscent photo series depicting perfectly-symmetrical buildings on the banks of the Danube River.

Some buildings-in-the-making keep architects awake at night, just as doctors worry over critical patients, and journalists -- yes, we do -- sweat ethical dilemmas with no easy answers. Architect ...

The Pyramid of the Sun in today’s Mexico City, built by the pre-Aztec Teotihuacános around 150 CE, was then home to lavish spiritual and ritualistic ceremonies and pageants. Like the ancient Egyptian ...

Affluent Athenian shopping district Kolonaki may have suffered its own downturn during the Greek financial crisis, but it has begun showing signs of a defiant cultural renaissance, with a number of ...

In preserving architecture, there are many possible approaches—ranging from treating a building as a static monument, meticulously restoring it in situ to the point of limiting public access, to more ...

Ancient Roman architecture is seen as a part of classical architecture and generally builds off of the three classical orders—Ionic, Corinthian, and Doric—which were developed in ancient Greece. Later ...