The plainest, strongest and oldest of the classical orders of architecture is the Doric, developed by mainland Greeks and familiar to us all in the form of the Parthenon. Doric columns rest directly ...

Columns, capitals and their respective bases have long endured the test of evolving architectural styles and interpretations. Although the classical orders of architecture can be traced to ancient ...

That’s an actual Yale University historian claiming that the White House’s desire that future federal buildings be constructed according to the Classical (Greco-Roman) style which is already standard ...

Writing in this newspaper on September 20, 2008, I congratulated those responsible for re-erecting two Doric columns at Tal-Erwieħ cemetery in Tarxien. However, now I realise that it would have been ...

Reading letters from my friends Alfred Massa and Joseph Farrugia which you published recently about the two Doric columns now at Tarxien cemetery, I think it was four or five years ago that I wrote ...

Miss A. D. BETTS, Thorn Cottage, Byways, Berk-hamsted, Herts, writes to suggest that the fluted columns of Greek architecture were copied from plant stems, such as those of an umbelliferous plant.