#classical architecture

The William A Clark mansion in Manhattan by architects Austin W. Lord, J. Monroe Hewlett and Washington Hull. The construction lasted from 1897 to 1911 and after that it stood completed for absurdly short 16 years.

A five-card breakdown of one of architecture's most famous open questions; the stylobate that curves, the columns that lean, the corners built thicker to fool your eye. And then, because the real answer is more interesting than the clean version: the genuine, still-unresolved scholarly argument over whether any of it was about tricking the eye at all.

An architectural study by Antonio Sant'Elia, done 1908 or 1909.

A hypothecical hotel building apparently done as a student project in the ecole des beaux arts, circa 1909.

This yuri and you cannot tell me otherwise. Palais Pallavicini, 1784, Vienna.

𝓠𝓾𝓲𝓮𝓽 𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓾𝓻

Design for an imaginary temple by Jean Jacques Leque (1757-1826).

The unbuilt Orianda summer palace Commissioned in 1837 by Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna and designed by Carl Friedrich Schinkel.