Architecture inevitably entails large expenditures of money, and where there is money, there is politics. What might seem like strictly stylistic affinities are rarely only that. For patrons and ...

For more than 25 years, New York–based architect Robert A.M. Stern has designed buildings that seamlessly fit into—and enrich—the Manhattan skyline. There’s the famous limestone 15 Central Park West, ...

Classicism is a broad river that has run through Western architecture for two-and-a-half millennia. A generation ago it seemed that the stream had reduced to a trickle. Only a small phalanx of ...

Last year, City Journal urged that, instead of squandering a proposed $1.5 billion to restore Lincoln Center—crumbling buildings that few admire either for their architecture or their acoustics—the ...