Alberti's Window

I think Versailles is a big deal . And I don't mean that the palace of Versailles is big in terms of physical space ( that fact is bey...

At a Christmas party earlier today, J and I had visions of creating a 20th century gingerbread house that would look something like this: ...

This past weekend, my family and I traveled to visit the Washington State Capitol Building. It's always fun for me to identify the dif...

When I visited Europe several summers ago, there were a couple of things that inspired me to pick up a sketch pad. And I'm not really ...

I just finished reading The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome by Jake Morrissey.  It was a pr...

This is a very appropriate post for today. It discusses the architect for the World Trade Center Towers, Minoru Yamasaki. You should che...

The following anecdote won't be as funny if I have to explain it. Hopefully you know/can surmise enough about archite...

Someone requested that I write a few introductory posts on architecture, and I am more than happy to comply! I thought that it would be fun...

When I went to do research in Brazil a few years ago, this was my favorite church that I visited. Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos (show...

I had another art history dream the other night. I dreamed that I went to go visit my the AP art history teacher from my old high school. ...

Of all of Gaudi's works, I am most familiar with the Casa Mila . (1907; Barcelona, Spain) However, I think that the cathedral La Sagrad...

Next time I am in Brazil, I want to go to Salvador and visit the city's Cathedral Basilica. This cathedral was built between 1657 and 1...

When I was researching information for my recent Bernini post , I came across an interesting anecdote regarding Bernini's opinion of the...