[A] richly illustrated, carefully explained introduction to classical architecture... Highly recommended. --Choice

Classical architecture has the potential to address our human condition and our natural environment. During the twentieth century and the rise of modernism, the

A comprehensive overview of current trends in classicist and vernacular architecture. This book presents 130 projects that reconsider what it means to practice

This is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical architecture in different regions of the world. Exploring the impact of colonialism, trade,

Jackson exposes the inadequacies of old conceptions of architecture as embodying metaphysical properties, and of architects as the sole keepers of this esoteric