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unusual facts about classical architecture



Cathedral of Saint Paul, National Shrine of the Apostle Paul

He had a budget of $1 million, and he based the cathedral on the designs of French churches at PĂ©rigueux and Paris, as well as French Renaissance and Classical themes.

Demetri Porphyrios

Most of his buildings resemble traditional high architecture such as Gothic and Greco-Roman Classical buildings.

Drumming Song

The English Baroque church, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, interpreted the overall shapes of gothic architecture with the language of classical architecture.

Richard Harding Watt

They describe his motifs as a mixture of Classical, Italianate, Byzantine, and "Unprecedented", and comment on his liking for towers with a jagged outline, domes, and random fenestration.


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Architectural Design

An undercurrent to Postmodernism featured in the journal was that of "architecture without a style", a vernacular classical architecture, epitomised by the work of Quinlan Terry, Demetri Porphyrios and John Simpson.

Architectural sculpture

The known Greek and Roman examples have been exhaustively studied, and frequently copied or adapted into subsequent neo-classical styles: Greek Revival architecture, usually the most strict; Neoclassical architecture; Beaux-Arts architecture with its exaggerated and romantic free interpretations of the vocabulary, and even Stalinist neo-classical architecture like the Central Moscow Hippodrome adapted to a totalitarian aesthetic.

History of the Tennessee Titans

The new name met all of Adams' requirements, and also served as a nod to Nashville's nickname of "The Athens of the South" (for its large number of higher-learning institutions, Classical architecture, and its full scale replica of the Parthenon).

John Summerson

The Classical Language of Architecture (1963) is an introduction to the stylistic elements of classical architecture and traces their use and variation in different eras.

Thomas Hardwick

He lived in Naples and then Rome for two years from 1776, filling his notebooks with sketches and measured drawings and gaining a grounding in classical architecture which was to influence his own neo-classical style.