Thomas Jefferson wanted simple Doric columns in the chamber of the U.S. Capitol known as Statuary Hall, but the more elaborate Corinthian style prevailed. (Shutterstock) The late Sen. Daniel Patrick ...

The plainest, strongest and oldest of the classical orders of architecture is the Doric, developed by mainland Greeks and familiar to us all in the form of the Parthenon. Doric columns rest directly ...

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 ...

Reading letters from my friends Alfred Massa and Joseph Farrugia which you published recently about the two Doric columns now at Tarxien cemetery, I think it was four or five years ago that I wrote ...

Miss A. D. BETTS, Thorn Cottage, Byways, Berk-hamsted, Herts, writes to suggest that the fluted columns of Greek architecture were copied from plant stems, such as those of an umbelliferous plant.