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But the buildings that most Americans know best and cherish reflect the ideas and values of the classical tradition, and its revival is cause for celebration. In the mid-1970s, coauthor Allan ...
In the early 19th century, new archaeological findings and accompanying photo books gave American architects a detailed look at Classical ... D.C., Greek Revival architecture spread rapidly ...
Duncan Stroik, a leading figure of the traditional sacred architecture revival in the U.S., leans over his firm’s latest ...
Greek Revival employs elements of the classical orders of architecture. Photo: Shanna Beasley / Unsplash As one of the early adopters in the U.S., Philadelphia began with Greek Revival public ...
Unlike the Classical Revival style ... and forms, Gothic Revival houses merge architectural ideas and forms from a range of times and places. Many may associate the term Gothic with medieval ...
Architecture was deployed to justify ... filtered through 18th-century British tastes and the Romantic revival of an idealized classical past. Palladio himself, the official architect of the ...
The Gothic Revival was a conscious movement that began in England ... that Gothic architecture was not only superior aesthetically, but also morally to Classical architecture. In 1836 he published ...