As in many professions, there are hierarchies of education. At the end of the 19th, and into the 20th centuries, there were several ways to become an architect. Some people skipped the school/higher ...

Beaux-Arts architecture was tailor made for the Gilded Age: It’s big, showy, opulent and gleaming, with many of its features carved from high-end materials like marble, limestone and granite. But how ...

This combination of photos shows, from left, the Pompeian Room of the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, the cover of "An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts ...

Primarily the revised and expanded papers from an international conference held at Penn's School of Design, Oct. 3-5, 2003. Contents Chinese architecture on the eve of the Beaux-Arts / Nancy S.

Architectural styles are rarely invented outright. Typically, they are adaptations of previous styles reconfigured and popularized by architects, designers and social change. The Beaux Arts style is ...

An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City, written by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen, is a sumptuous book on an era – roughly from the 1870s to the ...

PARIS — The longtime host venue of the Biennale, Grand Palais — with its hulking, column-filled stone base; glowing, larger-than-life atrium; and monumental, rounded glass-and-metal roof — is a ...

An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City, by Phillip James Dodd, (Images Publishing: 2021), 214 pages. Time is the one vital quality in determining whether a trend was a fad ...

From bungalows last month to Beaux Arts this month! Although these two styles were popular in the same period, they are literally and figuratively worlds apart in their origin and their appearance.

This article originally appeared in the June 2011 issue of Architectural Digest. For more than a century, Palm Beach, Florida, has been one of America's best-known laboratories for residential ...