Beaux-Arts architecture is the grand, academic classicism taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, blending French neoclassicism with Renaissance and Baroque ornament. It reached its fullest expression under France's Second Empire and Third Republic and spread from there to public and institutional buildings across Europe and the Americas into the early twentieth century. Grand Central Terminal in New York, completed in 1913, is a celebrated American example.
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PeriodMarks the style's rise to dominance in American architecture, its most influential form; the older Parisian academic tradition it draws on predates this. PeriodThe close of the style's high American period; teaching in the Beaux-Arts manner continued at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1968. Origin RegionFrance, spreading to Europe and the Americas 1 Connections
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The style takes its name from, and was formally taught at, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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A formative training influence on Kahn, who later moved toward modernism with monumental forms.
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Beaux-Arts design draws directly on French neoclassicism, adding Renaissance and Baroque ornament and grander planning.
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A Beaux-Arts civic landmark designed by Arthur Brown Jr.
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The style referred to as Beaux-Arts in English reached the apex of its development during the Second Empire (1852-1870) and the Third Republic that followed.
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The Beaux-Arts style heavily influenced the architecture of the United States in the period from 1880 to 1920.
- Influenced By: Neoclassical Architecture
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Notable Examples: Pennsylvania Station, infobox architectural_style field: Beaux-ArtsView the Source Wikipedia: Umaid Bhawan Palace
Notable Examples: Umaid Bhawan Palace, infobox architectural_style field: Indo-Saracenic Architecture, Beaux-Arts architectureView the Source Willard InterContinental Washington, Wikipedia
Notable Examples: The Willard InterContinental, infobox architectural_style field: Beaux-ArtsView the Source Algonquin Hotel, Wikipedia
Notable Examples: The Algonquin Hotel, infobox architectural_style field: Renaissance Revival, Beaux-ArtsView the Source Union Station (Toronto), Wikipedia
Notable Examples: Union Station (Toronto), infobox architectural_style field: Beaux-ArtsView the Source Thomas Jefferson Building, Wikipedia
Notable Examples: Thomas Jefferson Building, infobox architectural_style field: Beaux-ArtsView the Source Villa La Californie (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Villa La Californie, infobox architectural_style field: Beaux-ArtsView the Source The Cultural Landscape Foundation: Paul Philippe Cret
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became a leading practitioner in the Beaux-Arts style
EBSCO Research Starters: Louis I. Kahn
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Kahn studied at the University of Pennsylvania, influenced by the Beaux-Arts style, which emphasized symmetry and mass.
Selfridges London (Wikipedia)
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Beaux-Arts with Ionic columns
Palais Garnier, Wikipedia
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Category:Beaux-Arts architecture in France
The Mayflower Hotel, Wikipedia
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Category:Beaux-Arts architecture in Washington, D.C.
Grand Palais (Wikipedia)
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A pediment on the building refers to this function with an inscription that reads, "a monument dedicated by the Republic to the glory of French art." Designed according to Beaux-Arts tastes, the building features ornate stone facades, glass vaults and period innovations that included iron and light steel framing and reinforced concrete.
New York Public Library Main Branch, Wikipedia
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The architectural firm Carrère and Hastings constructed the structure in the Beaux-Arts style, and the structure opened on May 23, 1911.
Federal Palace of Switzerland (Wikipedia)
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Category:Beaux-Arts architecture
Grand Central Terminal (Wikipedia)
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Its Beaux-Arts design incorporates numerous works of art.
Washington Union Station, Wikipedia
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He linked the monumental end pavilions with long arcades enclosing loggias in a long series of bays that were vaulted with the lightweight fireproof Guastavino tiles favored by American Beaux-Arts architects.
Fairmont Copley Plaza - Wikipedia
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The seven-floor hotel is constructed of limestone and buff brick in the Beaux-Arts style.
École des Beaux-Arts (Wikipedia)
Musee d'Orsay, Wikipedia
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It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900.
Sao Bento railway station - Wikipedia
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A building of geometric rigor, in the Beaux-Arts style that was particularly popular in France, it has a central body corresponding to the principal atrium and on either extreme two volumes.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Wikipedia
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The Fifth Avenue facade, Great Hall, and Grand Stairway were designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Richard Morris Hunt and his son, Richard Howland Hunt, in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
Anna-Dean Farm (Wikipedia)
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The centerpiece of the farm was the 52 room Beaux Arts style mansion Barber constructed in 1909 to 1910.
Beaux-Arts architecture (Wikipedia)
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Beaux-Arts architecture ( bohz AR, French: [boz‿aʁ] ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.
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