Beaux-Arts Classicism, Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France) –American architects Richard Morris Hunt, Louis Sullivan, H.H. Richardson, William Robert Ware, Charles Follen McKim, Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, Thomas Hastings Beaux-Arts principles: Composition and symmetry Exuberance and projection
Julien Guadet codified the Beaux-Arts principles a. Investigation of the proper expression for a building b. Site location, climate always modify expression c. Simply constructible compositions d. Truthful architectural compositions-no shams e. Perceivable visual strength in the structure f. Easy admittance of air and light g. Composition proceeds by necessary compromises
Philadelphia Memorial Hall, 1876 Herman J. Schwarzmann, Designed for Centennial Exposition, 1876
Administration building (top rt) Palace of Fine Arts (right)
Agriculture building Transportation building (interior)
Beaux-Arts Characteristics Porticos, pavilions, rich details Grand stairways and vaulted interiors Balustrades Statuary and sculpture Elaborated windows Domes , Washington, D.C. Smithmeyer and Pelz
Library of Congress Washington, DC,
Library of Congress Reading Room ceiling interior stair
Union Station Columbus, Ohio, 1897
Pennsylvania Station New York, (McKim, Mead, and White)
Pennsylvania Station New York,
Pennsylvania Station, Grand Central Terminal
Union Station, Washington D.C., , Daniel Burnham.
Handley Library, Wincester, VA, , J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman
Governor’s Mansion Frankfort, Kentucky, 1914
District Building Washington, DC
Return to Classicism Reaction to the picturesque Return to classicism during a time of change Social upheaval and new immigrants Return to the Colonial past and the search for order Neoclassicism and the new American empire
Neoclassicism, Restrained classicism Monumental scale: large columns and colossal porticos Modern windows Broad Street Station, Richmond, Va John Russell Pope, 1913
Lincoln Memorial Washington, DC, Lincoln Memorial, Henry Bacon, 1922
Jefferson Memorial Washington, DC, Jefferson Memorial, John Russell Pope
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1905 Albright Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Edward Brodhead Green, 1905
Williams House Buffalo, NY, 1895
Swan House, Atlanta, Georgia 1928
Château Style, Building in the manner of French Renaissance architecture of French country houses (châteaux) built in the Loire Valley Cross windows (croisette) Hip roof Smooth surface Tower with conical roof Wall dormers
Biltmore, Asheville, NC Richard Morris Hunt,
Charles Gates Dawes House, Evanston, IL Henry Edwards Ficken, 1894