San Giorgio in Velabro, Interior's base pillar. Rome, Italy (Francesca Pompei for The Washington Post) Some columns needed extra material to accommodate their varying heights. They look like they ...

Columns were used in Roman architecture in colonnades - rows of evenly spaced columns - which were common features on Roman buildings. The columns from Bar Hill are thought to have been on the ...

Not so in Italy. Today a handful of people are trying, openly, to confront Mussolini’s architectural imprint on Rome, but they’re a small minority. In an Italy and Europe rumbling with the ...

Editor's note: The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s recently published book, “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C.

to include Pueblo revival, Romanesque Mediterranean styles, all sorts of different regional styles of historic architecture. So it was never imposing pediment and columns across the land." ...