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Beaux Arts
Beaux Arts (dominates 1890s – 1930s)
Combines elements from different Renaissance buildings.
Monumental design is more important than details.
Form controls function.
Maintains classical ideals including proportionality and symmetry.
McKim, Mead & White themselves
McKim, Mead & White: Penn Station, NYC, 1906-10
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1895 Richard Morris Hunt
Public Library of New York main branch, 1911 Carrere & Hastings
Ritz Hotel - Girard Trust Company McKim, Mead, White 1905
U Penn Law School
Misc. Beaux Arts office building, c.1910
Pheonix 15th and Arch Streets
Union Station, 1908 Daniel Burnham
Lincoln Memorial, 1911-1922 Henry Bacon (built on landfill)
Villard HousesMcKim, Mead & White
1884 New York City
Villard Houses (Palace Hotel) 1884 Joseph Wells and Stanford White The six houses are arranged around a courtyard open to the street to give the impression of a single monumental palace; Henry Villard's residence
occupies the whole left-hand wing.
Villard Houses, plan
Boston Public Library McKim, Mead & White1890
Public Library
Public Library
Bibliotheque St Genevive (1843)
Bibliotheque Ste. Genevive
Marshal Field Wholesale Store
Public Library, plans. Note how the apses of the main reading room are not expressed externally - contrast with the close relationship in
Labrouste's library between the exterior and interior
Public Library
Public Library