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Beaux-Arts Architects and Capitol Interiors

Author : Diane Viegut Al Shihabi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Beaux-Arts Architects and Capitol Interiors written by Diane Viegut Al Shihabi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation identifies and interprets the American Beaux-Arts interior design system in late Gilded Age state capitols, and presents new meanings of American Beaux-Arts architecture from an interiors' perspective. It adds to American Beaux-Arts architectural theory by identifying the organizational and planning constructs guiding the interior design plan of a holistically conceived structure, designed to unify architecture and fine art. Supported by evidence from interiors of elite mansions and monumental capitols, it attests to the presence of an underlying French academic hierarchy of architecture and artistic programs, derived from Neoplatonic philosophy, yet amalgamating American democratic functions. Evidence also attests to the presence of French academic expressions of architectural character, derived from Aristotelian philosophy, dictating the systematic application of styles, materials, and forms to interior finishes of capitols. Findings show that American Beaux-Arts architects entwined American iconography, American materials, and American technology within the French design system to effectively create an American art form and American meaning, while at the same time maintaining the framework of a historic artistic code of the French Academie. Thus, manifested designs within interiors of American Beaux-Arts capitols not only reflect ideologies underlying French academic architectural theory, but also ideologies of equity among branches of American government, clarity of government function, the voice of the people, and egalitarianism of state citizens - collectively, principles intrinsic to democracy. The analysis shows that the French academic architectural framework was necessary for the broader goals of American Beaux-Arts architects, who sought to place American civilization and its art among the meritorious civilizations of the world, by improving and reforming American government architecture. The research method was conceptualized and organized through the structural analytic framework of Crystallization, and integrated material culture analysis of extant objects, iconographical analysis of symbolism, and content analysis of documents. The information generated from this study is particularly timely since Beaux-Arts buildings are currently undergoing massive restorations, and the field of design is in the midst of a global Neo Beaux-Arts Classicism Movement. The findings advance scholarship of American Beaux-Arts architecture, interiors, and decorative arts, and facilitate the cultural sustainability of the American Beaux-Arts aesthetic.

Beaux-Arts Architects and Capitol Interiors

Author : Diane Viegut Al Shihabi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Beaux-Arts Architects and Capitol Interiors written by Diane Viegut Al Shihabi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation identifies and interprets the American Beaux-Arts interior design system in late Gilded Age state capitols, and presents new meanings of American Beaux-Arts architecture from an interiors' perspective. It adds to American Beaux-Arts architectural theory by identifying the organizational and planning constructs guiding the interior design plan of a holistically conceived structure, designed to unify architecture and fine art. Supported by evidence from interiors of elite mansions and monumental capitols, it attests to the presence of an underlying French academic hierarchy of architecture and artistic programs, derived from Neoplatonic philosophy, yet amalgamating American democratic functions. Evidence also attests to the presence of French academic expressions of architectural character, derived from Aristotelian philosophy, dictating the systematic application of styles, materials, and forms to interior finishes of capitols. Findings show that American Beaux-Arts architects entwined American iconography, American materials, and American technology within the French design system to effectively create an American art form and American meaning, while at the same time maintaining the framework of a historic artistic code of the French Academie. Thus, manifested designs within interiors of American Beaux-Arts capitols not only reflect ideologies underlying French academic architectural theory, but also ideologies of equity among branches of American government, clarity of government function, the voice of the people, and egalitarianism of state citizens - collectively, principles intrinsic to democracy. The analysis shows that the French academic architectural framework was necessary for the broader goals of American Beaux-Arts architects, who sought to place American civilization and its art among the meritorious civilizations of the world, by improving and reforming American government architecture. The research method was conceptualized and organized through the structural analytic framework of Crystallization, and integrated material culture analysis of extant objects, iconographical analysis of symbolism, and content analysis of documents. The information generated from this study is particularly timely since Beaux-Arts buildings are currently undergoing massive restorations, and the field of design is in the midst of a global Neo Beaux-Arts Classicism Movement. The findings advance scholarship of American Beaux-Arts architecture, interiors, and decorative arts, and facilitate the cultural sustainability of the American Beaux-Arts aesthetic.

The Majesty of Capitol Hill

Author : Grooms, Thomas B.
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455608126
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Majesty of Capitol Hill written by Grooms, Thomas B. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paris on the Potomac

Author : Cynthia R. Field
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821442392
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Paris on the Potomac written by Cynthia R. Field and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910 John Merven Carrère, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, “Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities.” The five essays in Paris on the Potomac explore aspects of this influence on the artistic and architectural environment of Washington, D.C., which continued long after the well-known contributions of Peter Charles L’Enfant, the transplanted French military officer who designed the city’s plan. Isabelle Gournay’s introductory essay provides an overview and examines the context and issues involved in three distinct periods of French influence: the classical and Enlightenment principles that prevailed from the 1790s through the 1820s, the Second Empire style of the 1850s through the 1870s, and the Beaux-Arts movement of the early twentieth century. William C. Allen and Thomas P. Somma present two case studies: Allen on the influence of French architecture, especially the Halle aux Blés, on Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the U.S. Capitol; and Somma on David d’Angers’s busts of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. Liana Paredes offers a richly detailed examination of French-inspired interior decoration in the homes of Washington’s elite in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cynthia R. Field concludes the volume with a consideration of the influence of Paris on city planning in Washington, D.C., including the efforts of the McMillan Commission and the later development of the Federal Triangle complex. The essays in this collection, the latest addition to the series Perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the United States Capitol, originated in a conference held by the U.S. Capitol Historical Society in 2002 at the French Embassy’s Maison Française.

An American Renaissance

Author : Phillip James Dodd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781864706819
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book An American Renaissance written by Phillip James Dodd and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which has been painstakingly researched and beautifully photographed over many years, takes a close look at twenty of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City. While showing public exteriors, its focus is on the lavish interiors that are associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age--often providing a glimpse inside buildings not otherwise viewable to the public. The pages recount not only the fascinating stories of some of New York's most famous and significant Beaux-Arts buildings, it also recalls the lives of those who commissioned, designed, and built them.

The Beaux-Arts Tradition in French Architecture

Author : Donald Drew Egbert
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691101064
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Beaux-Arts Tradition in French Architecture written by Donald Drew Egbert and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, The Beaux-Arts Tradition in French Architecture: Illustrated by the Grands Prix de Rome, will be forthcoming.

Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts

Author : Jeffrey W. Cody
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824861019
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts written by Jeffrey W. Cody and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships to train as architects at American universities whose design curricula were dominated by Beaux-Arts methods. Upon their return home in the 1920s and 1930s, these graduates began to practice architecture and create China’s first architectural schools, often transferring a version of what they had learned in the U.S. to Chinese situations. The resulting complex series of design-related transplantations had major implications for China between 1911 and 1949, as it simultaneously underwent cataclysmic social, economic, and political changes. After 1949 and the founding of the People’s Republic, China experienced a radically different wave of influence from the Beaux-Arts through advisors from the Soviet Union who, first under Stalin and later Khrushchev, brought Beaux-Arts ideals in the guise of socialist progress. In the early twenty-first century, China is still feeling the effects of these events. Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts examines the coalescing of the two major architectural systems, placing significant shifts in architectural theory and practice in China within relevant, contemporary, cultural, and educational contexts. Fifteen major scholars from around the world analyze and synthesize these crucial events to shed light on the dramatic architectural and urban changes occurring in China today—many of which have global ramifications. This stimulating and generously illustrated work is divided into three sections, framed by an introduction and a postscript. The first focuses on the convergence of Chinese architecture and the École des Beaux-Arts, outlining the salient aspects of each and suggesting how and why the two "met" in the U.S. The second section centers on the question of how Chinese architects were influenced by the Beaux-Arts and how Chinese architecture was changed as a result. The third takes an even closer look at the Beaux-Arts influence, addressing how innovative practices, new schools of architecture, and buildings whose designs were linked to Beaux-Arts assumptions led to distinctive new paradigms that were rooted in a changing China. By virtue of its scope, scale, and scholarship, this volume promises to become a classic in the fields of Chinese and Western architectural history. Contributors: Tony Atkin, Peter J. Carroll, Yung Ho Chang,Jeffrey W. Cody, Kerry Sizheng Fan, Fu Chao-Ching, Gu Daqing, Seng Kuan,Delin Lai, Xing Ruan, Joseph Rykwert, Nancy S. Steinhardt, David VanZanten, Rudolf Wagner, Zhang Jie, Zhao Chen.

QUEST FOR GRANDEUR C

Author : Sally Kress Tompkins
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book QUEST FOR GRANDEUR C written by Sally Kress Tompkins and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of America's most ambitious public buildings programs is Washington's Federal Triangle, a monumental grouping of federal office buildings between the White House and Capitol Hill, fulfilling the Beaux-Arts architectural vision for beautifying cities. This book, in over seventy duotone photographs, captures the neoclassical elegance and Art Deco details found in both the exteriors and interiors of the Federal Triangle complex." "A Quest for Grandeur also reveals how Charles Moore, chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts from 1915-37, laid the critical foundation for the Federal Triangle complex by forging a unique consensus of aesthetic and political thought rarely achieved before or since in American architecture. Moore involved many of the most important figures in American architecture in the complex's planning, design, and construction - among them Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Cass Gilbert, and John Russell Pope." "Many major buildings - the National Archives, the Departments of Commerce and justice, and the Internal Revenue Service - were completed, but not the entire program. Toward the end of the 1930s, Moore's consensus faltered as a new generation of architects rejected Beaux-Arts style in favor of a new design aesthetic - modernism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The National Capitol

Author : George C. Hazelton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The National Capitol written by George C. Hazelton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Harmony of the Arts

Author : Frederick C. Luebke
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803279310
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Harmony of the Arts written by Frederick C. Luebke and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its completion in 1932, the Nebraska State Capitol has been widely recognized as an architectural masterpiece, one that justifiably inspires pride in the citizens of the state and admiration in people everywhere. Rising four hundred feet from a massive two-story base, domed with gold-glazed tile and topped with a bronze statueøof a pioneer sower of grain, it can be seen for miles on the plains. This most striking of statehouses, designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in 1920 and under construction for a decade, successfully embodies the union of art, architecture, and humanism. A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol surveys in words and pictures the architectural achievement and the artists responsible for it. Frederick C. Luebke introduces the book with a history of the capitals and capitols of Nebraska. H. Keith Sawyers writes about Goodhue?s architectural vision, which was carried out by other artists after his death. David Murphy examines the contribution of Hartley Burr Alexander, the philosopher and anthropologist who developed the symbological details of Goodhue?s vision and invested the building?s many inscriptions with poetic elegance. Dale L. Gibbs considers Lee Lawrie?s sculpture, remarkably congruent with the general design. Joan Woodside and Betsy Gabb discuss the decorative art of the mosaicist, Hildreth Meiere. Norman Geske and Jon Nelson examine the capitol murals, painted by eight artists over four decades. And Robert C. Ripley allows the reader to see the building in its setting, as landscaped by Ernst Herminghaus. Lavishly illustrated and handsomely produced, A Harmony of the Arts presents the first survey in many years of Nebraska?s magnificent capitol and offers new ways of looking at it.

United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art

Author : Diane K. Skvarla
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art written by Diane K. Skvarla and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Capitol abounds in magnificent art that rivals its exterior architectural splendor. The fine art held by the U.S. Senate comprises much of this treasured heritage. It spans over 200 years of history & contains works by such celebrated artists as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Hiram Powers, Daniel Chester French, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Walker Hancock, & Alexander Calder. This volume provides previously unpublished information on the 160 paintings & sculptures in the U.S. Senate. Each work of art -- from portraiture of prominent senators to scenes depicting significant events in U.S. history -- is illus. with a full-page color photo, accompanied by an essay & secondary images that place the work in historical & aesthetic context.

Cass Gilbert Life And Work

Author : Barbara S Christen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730654
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Cass Gilbert Life And Work written by Barbara S Christen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen essays, by a diverse group of historians and others who experience and study Gilbert's buildings in their professional lives, detail the intricate relationship between Gilbert's work and the longstanding tradition of public architecture in America. This volume examines Gilbert's work in five unique categories: the building of a national practice, an evaluation of his Minnesota State Capitol as "a defining moment" in American civic architecture, his New York career, his response to civic ideals in his plans for towns and universities, and his work in the public domain.

The Architecture of the Ecole Des Beaux-arts

Author : Richard Chafee
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of the Ecole Des Beaux-arts written by Richard Chafee and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1977 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time in this century, is an opportunity to reexamine the philosophy of the Beaux-Arts school of architecture, whose two-hundred-year history represented the body of ideas and buildings against which the modern movement rebelled. Based on the doctrines of architecture formulated by the French Academy during the eighteenth century, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts system of instruction stressed drawing as the primary means of visualizing architectural form. The Concours du Grand Prix de Romewas the ultimate test of ability, and thus the index of the Academy's ideals throughout this period. This book reproduces, in more than 200 drawings, projects for the Grand Prix and for virtually every other type of competition or assignment at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Included are drawings by students who subsequently became preeminent as professional architects—among them Henri Labrouste, architect of the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, and Charles Garnier, architect of the Paris Opera. All illustrations are accompanied by extensive explanatory captions, and a selection of important larger studies appear on specially folded inserts, enabling the reader to view them in unusually clear and precise detail. Complementing the student work reproduced here is a selection of photographs by major Beaux-Arts buildings executed in France and the United States. In all, the book contains 423 illustrations, 23 in color, and 10 inserts. The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Artsoffers an enlightening analysis of the school. The authors examine Beaux-Arts concepts of theory and practice and assess major work by each of the school's main factions. The essay by Richard Chafee covers the school's complex political and administrative history and is followed by a survey of the school's evolving notions of architectural composition—from Charles Percier through Garnier—by David Van Zanten. Neil Levine discusses the emergence of the Neo-Grecand the ideas of Labrouste, which in their preoccupation with literature and meaning in architecture parallel some recent concerns. In the final essay, Arthur Drexler examines such issues as the uses of the past, the ethical implications of style versus "non-style," and the techniques of visualizing buildings that have influenced the development of modern architecture.

The Cornell Architect

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cornell Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parisian Architecture of the Belle Epoque

Author : Roy Johnston
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Parisian Architecture of the Belle Epoque written by Roy Johnston and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn of the century Paris is often referred to as the belle époque, a golden age of affluence and artistic creativity before the turmoil of the First World War. This was the Paris of artists such as Bonnard, Rodin, Seurat and Vuillard, as well as writers and musicians such as Debussy, Zola and Maupassant. The Eiffel Tower had just been built and the Moulin Rouge was in its heyday - Paris was the cosmopolitan capital of pleasure and culture. The architecture of the period, however, has generally been neglected known only for the Art Nouveau designs of Guimard's Metro entrances and restaurants such as Maxim's. This book, based on a thorough survey of Parisian buildings of the era, connects the medievalism of Viollet-le-Duc, the classical tradition of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and early developments in metal and concrete construction with modern pioneers like Perret, de Baudot and Sauvage. Including the exuberant designs by architects working in the 'Ritz style', as well as the work of a multitude of architects whose names are at present unknown, Parisian Architecture of the Belle Epoque is a truly comprehensive and visually sumptuous study of this under exposed period of architecture.

Master Builders

Author : National Trust for Historic Preservation
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471144021
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Master Builders written by National Trust for Historic Preservation and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1985-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Architect Builds Visible History." Vincent Scully Which architect designed the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty? Who put a Chippendale pediment atop a skyscraper and quickly created a landmark of contemporary architecture? Who was the only American architect to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery during the Civil War? Which architect designed a castle in California for William Randolph Hearst? Master Builders answers these and scores of other questions about more than 100 architects and builders who have left indelible marks on American architecture. This unique guide puts faces with America's most well-known and loved buildings--from the U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument through the first skyscrapers and landmarks of the Post-Modern movement. "Why should you want to know more about these architects?" asks Roger K. Lewis in his introduction. "The reason is simple. You are undeniably connected to the built environment that you inhabit, use, see and respond to. You affect building design, and building design affects you." Can you pair these master builders with their works? Frank Lloyd Wright U.S. Capitol Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Central Park Adler and Sullivan University of Virginia Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Glass House William Thornton Home Insurance Building Orson Squire Fowler Fallingwater H. H. Richardson CBS Building Frederick Law Olmsted San Simeon James Renwick Seagram Building Robert Mills Trinity Church, Boston I. M. Pei Salk Institute Julia Morgan Sears Tower Eero Saarinen Smithsonian "Castle" Cass Gilbert John E. Kennedy Library McKim, Mead and White U.S. Supreme Court Louis I. Kahn Chicago Stock Exchange Thomas Jefferson Octagonal Houses Philip Johnson Pennsylvania Station William Le Baron Jenney Washington Monument

Buildings of the District of Columbia

Author : Pamela Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Buildings of the District of Columbia written by Pamela Scott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the various changes in Washington's architectural character from the Revolutionary War to the post-World War II era, the authors survey the major public and government buildings, monuments and memorials, residential buildings and neighborhoods, parks and recreational areas, and commercial and industrial centers. Over 360 photos, drawings, and maps.