Beaux-Arts architecture takes its name from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, an academy where four ambitious students—Félix Duban, Joseph-Louis Duc, Henri Labrouste and Léon Vaudoyer—challenged the ...
My philosophy really wants people to understand, so building architecture should not only be looking to the future, looking to the technology future, but actually in the tradition, knowing they have ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Phillip Dodd opens his lecture on the finest examples of Beaux-Arts Architecture associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age (1877-1920) ...
In the optimistic postwar period of the 1950s, all things seemed possible, including the notion that design could make Americans live better and be better. Into this mix of new art and design in ...