REMEMBER in junior high and high school when the teacher made you memorize something? If your response was anything like mine, you immediately thought, “Why am I memorizing this? It’s not like I’ll ...
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 ...
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.