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A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales at the New Buildings in Old Places Conference, St James's Palace, London

Posted on Monday February 4th, 2008 at 08:13

31st January 2008 Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am enormously grateful to all of you for coming today, particularly to the Minister for giving up her precious time for what promises to be a lively and interesting gathering on the subject of New B...
A Request

Posted on Tuesday January 29th, 2008 at 12:55

I’m in the planning stages of a paper on ornament, and I’m interested to find out if the meanings of various motifs have been catalogued anywhere. For example, what meanings are historically associated with the acorn, palm, honeysuckle, lion, et...
Frank Loomis: On Neoclassical Arcitecture

Posted on Wednesday January 9th, 2008 at 15:43 in loomis

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Types of Columns

Posted on Wednesday January 9th, 2008 at 13:17 in the main forum

How many types of columns can be identified? I'm really thinking about column types that could be any of the five orders. Here are a couple to get started: Solomonic Column Rostral Column Advertisement: ...
Do you prefer to design in contrast to your upbringing, i.e. grow up modest- design rich OR grow up rich- design modest?

Posted on Thursday December 20th, 2007 at 12:59

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I've got to give kudos to the group writing at GrandTradition.net. Very good stuff for artists and architects!