Athens’ ancient Parthenon, the most famous of all Greek temples, looks like a perfectly rectangular structure, bolstered by ...

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 ...

Optical illusions thought to have influenced the design of the Parthenon in ancient Greece are not backed up by evidence or are too small to have an effect ...

In a book of two halves, Jenkins seeks to educate readers in the ‘language’ of style as well as offer a polemic on the ravages visited upon our cities by modernist planners “My dream is that people’s ...

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 ...

A recent renovation of the landmark New York Studio School turned up a hidden mural and other gems.

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.

I agree with Alfred Massa (The Sunday Times, July 10) that the Doric columns found at Tarxien cemetery should be protected. They were removed from Tarxien parish church in the 1890s and should be ...