| This is a striking example of the austere trabeated classicism that was the most popular style for public buildings in the 1930s in many parts of the United States and Europe. |
| The Romans also inherited the trabeated stone frame from the Greeks of southern Italy and continued to build temples and other public buildings with this type of construction into the 3rd century ce. |
| The room is a Temple of Art in the most deluxe materials, with silvered fittings, mahogany panelling and top lighting through a trabeated ceiling of frosted crystal glass. |
| Hence this architecture is called architecture of the beam, or, in more formal language, trabeated architecture. |
| This constant oscillation in the reading of figure-ground is heightened further by the memory of the trabeated system to which the Doric columns allude. |
