According to 20th-century Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis, failing to revive the human element in architectural planning may bring about the end of civilization. Professor of the history and ...

A new study suggests Greek temple design reflects the form of upturned rowing ships, offering a maritime explanation for ...

Long before sustainability became a boardroom buzzword, Alexander “Greek” Thomson was quietly designing buildings that put ...

When one Greek expatriate commissions another to create a cultural center in Shanghai to celebrate their homeland’s culture, it becomes an obsession, and a goal that must impeccably deliver the vision ...

Travel Weekly’s Kate Rice is on vacation in Greece with her family. Her second dispatch follows. Click to read Kate’s first dispatch. To step foot on the Acropolis is to wonder: Who were these guys?

View of one of the 46 outer columns of the Parthenon, showing the precisely executed fluting (or vertical grooves). Hand-carving these flutes after the erection of the columns was one of the most time ...

Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...

Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens where a now-sunken city once stood. Scientists found a partially submerged ...

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 ...