I was passing by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington the other afternoon when the raking winter sun made the patterned, bronzed-aluminum facade glow ...

Columns are an integral part of Greek Revival architecture. They bring in a sense of grandeur and formality to any space. ...

Andrew Blackall discusses when he came across a large carved pillar in Greece and the curious dilemma of who it belongs to.

Style-wise, I don’t know what to call the museum’s architecture. David Adjaye, the Ghanaian-British architect, led the design team. The building is classicizing, with its base and capital, at the same ...