FCSarch 31 Beaux Arts

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