NEOCLASSICISM
Abbe Laugier: Essai sur l'architecture (Essay on
Architecture), 1753: frontispiece for 1755 edition, showing
the "natural" state of architecture
Germain Soufflot: The Pantheon, Paris (ex-church of
Ste.- Genevieve), 1755-92: plan; exterior as modified; interior view
The Earl of Burlington (Richard Boyle) and William Kent:
Chiswick House, near London, begun 1725; Detail; Side; Plan
J.-N-.L. Durand, "Lectures on Architecture,"
Paris, 1802: modular basis for rational architecture
Karl Friedrich von Schinkel: Altes Museum, Berlin,
1824-30: plan; exterior today; interior of the rotunda: cf. with the Pantheon
dome; interior corridor view
Juste-Aurele Meissonier, proposed facade for St.-Sulpice,
Paris, 1726
Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, winning design for the facade
of St.-Sulpice, 1732--77
Thomas Jefferson: University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
VA, 1814; 1817--1826: view of lawn leading to Pantheon-like library (cf.
Pantheon)
Horace Walpole: Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England,
near London, 1749--1777: exterior; view of long hall interior: the vaults
are plaster
Robert Adam: Syon House nr. London, 1761-76
Jefferson: Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, 1785-89: as photographed
by Matthew Brady during the Civil War, showing its distinct Acropolis effect:
cf. Acropolis
Etienne-Louis Boulee, Projected cenotaph for Newton,
1783: interior with nighttime illumination
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806): industrial city for the
Royal Saltworks at Chaux (the Salines de Chaux), Arc-et-Senans,
France, 1775-79: Saltworks as built, and as standing today]; (partially...?
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