REMEMBER in junior high and high school when the teacher made you memorize something? If your response was anything like mine, you immediately thought, “Why am I memorizing this? It’s not like I’ll ...

Columns, capitals and their respective bases have long endured the test of evolving architectural styles and interpretations. Although the classical orders of architecture can be traced to ancient ...

For most people, the soaring columns of Greek temples wouldn’t immediately conjure up visions of seating. But Laurie Beckerman, a New York designer, saw the Ionic column capital as an obvious model ...