Postmodernists were not the first to use architecture as a striking stage design and to toy with its viewer using optical illusions, twisted perspectives and buildings whose forms don’t quite follow ...

Around the world, a few strands of design are making us bizarre houses, buildings, shops and furnishings. It's fun and decidedly weird. I vote yes. My favorite strand is the latest neo-baroque madness ...

Baroque Architecture and Baroque Geometry -- Effable Shapes -- Square-Based Proportion -- Effable Number Sequences -- The Golden Section Sequence -- The Fibonacci Sequence -- Heavenly Fabrics -- ...

Aerial view of Rome -- Youth and early training -- The Villa Sacchetti at Castelfusano -- Palazzo Barberini -- The Sanctuary of Fortune at Palestrina -- S. Lorenzo in Damaso -- SS. Luca e Martina -- ...

Here’s a new twist on Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava’s proposal for a 2,000-foot-tall twisting tower in Chicago: The idea of a tall building corkscrewing into the sky is as old as time, though ...

An 18th century baroque palace in Karlsruhe, Germany has become the canvas for a dazzling light mapping projection in the latest project by Zaha Hadid Architects. Named “Behaviour Morphe,” the ...

Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells the ...

After soaking up all the architectural wonders of London, I was excited to be in Prague, the world’s capital of architecture. I voiced my apprehension about what could be in store for our holiday in ...

Portugal's most beautiful Baroque buildings bear witness to an era when art was in the service of faith, power and wealth. From north to south, these masterpieces offer a spectacular and expressive ...