Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ...... Greek temples

Neoclassicism / Classical Revival
1900-1920


An American architectural movement based on the use of pure Roman and Greek forms, mainly in England and the U.S. in the early 20th cent. (See Greek temples)

The later, more refined stage of the Beaux-Arts tradition (1890-1920) influenced the last phase (1900-1920) of the classical revival in the United States.

Federal government buildings of the first half of the 20th century, e.g., the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., owed much to the Beaux-Arts interpretation of classical design. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, commissions for public buildings and grand houses of industrial moguls went to architects trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition. These architects generally produced academic designs based on classical or Renaissance precedents.

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