Eight kilometers outside Spoleto, along the old road to Todi, lies the ancient Pieve di San Brizio, a diminuitive parish church dedicated to a Syrian-Christian who took refuge in the city to avoid Roman persecution, sometime in the third century. San Brizio would later serve as the first bishop of...Read more
A quest to build Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land began nearly a century before William Blake composed his poem; for Queen Anne, in her 1711 Act of Parliamentary, decreed that “…50 new churches [were to be built] of stone and other proper materials, with Towers or Steeples to each of...Read more
Skirting the edge of the Empty Quarter, sheer cliffs of sandstone and limestone rise 1,000 feet above the valley floor of Yemen’s Wadi Hadhramaut, flanking a series of settlements that lie along an ancient road. Three of these cities—Shibam, Seyoun, and Tarim—are renown throughout the Arab world...Read more
Considered one of the most beautiful historic theaters in Europe, le Théâtre de la Reine at Versailles was built between 1778 and 1779 by the architect Richard Mique at the request of Marie-Antoinette. A pupil of Christoph Willibald von Gluck in Vienna, Marie-Antoinette was fond of music, opera,...Read more
Agence Christiane Schmuckle-Mollard has been awarded the 2018 WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize for its remarkable preservation of the Karl Marx School in Villejuif, France. Now in its tenth year, the biennial prize recognizes architects or designers... Read more