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Brain, David
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ARCHITECTURE , *CLASSICAL architecture , *ECLECTICISM in architecture , *CLASSICISM in architecture , *URBAN planning , *CANON (Architecture) - Abstract
This article focuses on a sharp turn which the American architecture took in favor of the stylistic canons of Renaissance classicism as taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. This stylistic turn, which has been characterized as a "revival of the revivals," was the leading edge of a movement toward a mode of design distinctly different from the eclecticism that had dominated American architecture since mid-century. In 1893, consolidation of a Beaux-Arts "movement" in the United States was dramatically marked by the widely publicized "White City" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Chicago Fair, and, in particular, the central Court of Honor with its white lath-and plaster façades, has been credited with launching a national vogue for classical architecture in the Beaux-Arts tradition, with focusing national attention on the possibilities of city planning and urban design as solutions to the problems of the city, and, finally, with bringing national prominence and prestige to architects working in the Beaux-Arts mode.
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- 1989
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