Romanesque Revival is the third Victorian style that was prevalent in the United States from 1880 to 1900. Of the seven Victorian styles, Romanesque can be described as the most masculine and massive ...
When the critic Reyner Banham published his seminal essay, “The New Brutalism,” in 1955, the project he used to illustrate the essential elements of this new architectural language was a school.
It’s one of the paradoxes of Philadelphia’s 21st century residential building boom. The more rowhouses and apartments that get built here, the more they look alike. The streets of Fishtown and ...