All Classicism articles

  • Timothy Smith and Jonathan Taylor portrait
    Opinion

    Why we teach classical design

    2025-05-08T05:00:00Z

    Architects and educators Timothy Smith and Jonathan Taylor reflect on fourteen years of their pioneering traditional design studio at Kingston University

  • Giles Heather
    Opinion

    It’s time to stop using ‘pastiche’ as a pejorative term

    2022-07-04T06:00:00Z

    The word has long been used to unfairly malign architects working in the classical tradition. We need to reclaim the term and celebrate the fact that precedent and tradition are at the heart of most good contemporary architecture, writes Giles Heather