LANCASTER IN STYLE, PART 5: FEDERAL STYLE, 1790-1830. The American Revolution not only gave birth to a new nation but also to a new architectural style — the Federal style. After adoption of the U.S.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines revival as “renewed attention or interest in something.” Classical Revival is the first of many revival styles to appear on the architectural scene in Lancaster ...

Casting a critical eye at banks that resembled Roman temples, the great Chicago architect Louis Sullivan famously wrote nearly 120 years ago that their bankers should wear togas and sandals, and ...

Architecture is an art that requires three-dimensional experience. But since we can’t all travel all the time to see work, much of its production and communication comes to us in two dimensions. In ...

Rendering of the SOM-designed 400 Lake Shore Drive. In his first dispatch for the Chicago Tribune's newly launched biweekly architecture column, Edward Keegan wonders if both planned residential ...

Spurred by the design of Greek temples in the 5th century B.C., this architectural revival movement took hold in the 18th and mid-19th century. Inspired by a trip to Greece in 1758, British architect ...