The U.S. Custom House borrows many architectural features from ancient Roman temples. The U.S. Custom House and the Maison Carrée bare many architectural similarities. With similar ornamentation decorating the front and sides of the building, the buildings’ floor plans differ. The U.S. Custom House is symmetrical from front to back and can be accessed from both sides. The Maison Carrée resembles the traditional floor plan of a Roman temple. The U.S. Custom Houses is used for governmental purposes instead of a temple like the Maison Carrée. Both buildings rest on podiums with entrance steps leading up to the portico. The U.S. Custom House’s podium is made from ashlar masonry while the Maison Carrée’s podium is smooth. The stylobate on both buildings contain six free standing columns across the front with two engaged columns resting on the corners of the façade. However, the U.S. Custom House has four Corinthian pilasters on the front of the façade while the Maison Carrée does not. The Maison Carrée has a full peristyle surrounding the portico and a plinth incorporated into the base of the column, whereas the U.S. …show more content…
Custom House has a simple entablature while the Maison Carrée is more ornate, but many of the ornamentation across the architrave has been destroyed on the Maison Carrée. In between the architrave and the frieze, the Maison Carrée has an egg and dart pattern whereas the U.S. Custom House has a modern rendition of the egg and dart molding. Dentilations project under the cornice and around both buildings. In the Maison Carrée, dentilations, egg and dart moldings, and decorated brackets align the perimeter of the pediment. Egg and dart molding is the only ornamentation to decorate the perimeter of the pediment on the U.S. Custom House. The Maison Carrée contains dentilations underneath the cornice while the U.S. Custom House has both brackets and dentilations. The buildings contain no other ornamentation or sculpture on the center of the
The house stood between Broadway and Fourth Avenue, and it looked like all the other New York brownstones. It was narrow-fronted, with a high stoop. A formal parlor opened into a narrow hall, with the dining room at the rear. The master bedroom and nursery were one floor up, with three more bedrooms one level higher. In contrast to the other houses, however, it had a deep porch, or piazza, at the rear of the third floor level. It had been a bedroom before the Roosevelts tore out the wall and made it an open-air playroom. The house had been a wedding present from Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, or CVS, to his son and daughter-in-law.
The cobblestone house is one of the most identifiable structures in Western New York. These houses date back to the early 1800’s when many of the towns that people in the Rochester area live in were being founded. When driving down many of the streets you can find these houses scattered on the left and the right. They are marvelous to look at and are also strange because they are some of the only houses in the area to be built out of stones, not lumber.
Queen Anne architecture can not be defined easily. It's architectural style has many different characteristics. In this paper, I will show how the Queen Anne style evolved from the architecture that was common during the reign of Queen Anne herself and also show how it evolved in America in the late 1800's during the Industrial Revolution. I will then show how the Queen Anne style is incorporated into today's architectural design.
William H. Pierson, Jr., American Buildings and Their Architects: Technology and the Picturesque, (Doubleday & Company, Inc.), 167.
Dell Upton is a historian and renowned professor of architecture and Urbanism at the University of California. He has published several books on architecture; one of them is “Architecture in the United States”, published in 1998. In this book, Upton analyzes the architecture of the United States in different aspects, such as nature, money and art, thus depicting the great variety in architectural forms, and how throughout the decades, different interests have lead communities to different ways of building, different purposes and materials, thus reflecting their way of thinking and their relationship with the environment. By exploring so many different architectural styles, Upton reveals the great diversity and richness that has always, and continues to characterize American architecture.
The Vestibule leading to this entrance hall is identical to the entrance of the Temple of Erectheus on the Acropolis of Athens. The statues in the deep niches, carved by Frederick MacMonnies, combine “American idealism with the elegance of Second Empire Style and is in advanced realm by their lack of enframement or paneling.” The vaulted entrance hall, which leads to the grand staircase, is segmented into three aisles and is clad in Iowa sandstone. The arched central aisle has the names of prominent Bostonians inscribed on them.
The Monticello mansion lies atop a mountain which bears its namesake, the home is surrounded by an elaborate garden which grows an unrivaled variety of plants. The complex possesses forty-three rooms is 110 feet long, 90 feet wide, and over forty feet high in some areas. This combined with the thirteen feet thick walls, culminate to offer roughly eleven thousand square feet of living space. The home possesses an iconic octogonal dome over its central portion, numerous skylights, and an altogether unique design, reflecting the innovative mind of its owner. Monticello borrows heavily from Roman and Renaissance styles, with some influence from Enlightenment France as well, culminating in a masterpiece of engineering. The home is symmetrical
The Jefferson Memorial is a testimonial to the past, present, and future of the United States. Its architecture, like most neo-Classical buildings, gives a sense of permanence. This permanence has a history far older than many would suspect. Centuries ago and thousands of miles away a building was erected that would later become the model for which many other buildings, including the Jefferson Memorial, are based upon. This building is the Roman Pantheon. Though the Jefferson Memorial borrows the basic form and elements from the Pantheon, the Memorial has distinctive differences from its predecessor.
These personifications and imagery brings the house to life as it makes you feel and see things much
As someone with a passion for writing, my final project will be an extended expository essay about the history of homebuilding from ancient to modern times. It will discuss the different types of dwellings throughout recorded human history from the perspective of how art and culture influences building design. This will fulfill my own curiosity to understand the different influences on homebuilding and design over the years and how people have dealt with these changes.
With the Pantheon being built over 1700 years ago, it’s amazing that architects are still using features and techniques from this work of architecture in modern creations. The use of this type of classical architecture will continue to be used in works for public space due to its remarkable exterior appearance and it’s long lasting structural durability. When both Jesse hall and the Pantheon are compared it is possible to see their similarities from the types of domes that top each, their external facades, and their interior plan. While they share many similarities, the differences that Bell and Binder used in their creation make this work of architecture unique to many other public spaces.
It began as a country house designed by James Hoban, but throughout time, it had renovations, expansions and many additions used to enhance it to fit with the standards of the president and the ever-changing America and finally built up to of the White House that is there today. But what stuck with the original plan and is still apparent today, is the use of Greek Architecture within the plans of James Hoban. “Hoban's Georgian design reached back to Roman and Greek styles. His plan called for a rectangular, threestory structure containing thirty-six rooms. It featured a tripped roof, a balustrade, and large symmetrically arranged windows with alternating triangular and curved pediments”
It is an under statement to refer to these buildings as houses at all though. They were clearly much more than this, in even their smallest proportions. The Domus Aurea itself was a series of buildings and landscapes designed to give the impression of a vast park in a relatively small area for such a thing (Picard 116). The idea behind this was that you would create something more beautiful for the beholder if your creation was beautiful for how you used the earth.
Previously going any further it is necessary to define the term traditional with reference to houses to its here thought of as a well as an architecture phenomenon. In this context it’s generally used with three distinct bit related meanings. First traditional houses form,
The process of building a house is a very complex and difficult task. In the following paragraphs, I will be explaining the many different steps that are required to build a house.