He comes to postwar America with blueprints for a new kind of beauty in director Brady Corbet’s ambitious, if imperfect, epic film.

Like many notable quotes about architecture, it speaks to grandeur, permanence, scale. One imagines Lázló Tóth, the visionary ...

In 1740, when Boston was a colonial outpost of 16,500 people, an extravagantly wealthy merchant named Peter Faneuil offered his city a gift. To replace the informal scrum of vendors gathered at the ...