The Architecture of McKim, Mead, and White: 1879–1915

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However, White's taste for the picturesque and for variety in colour and texture led to the creation of a great number of buildings in the Shingle style, partly derived from American Colonial prototypes, and influenced by the English Domestic Revival of the Arts-and-Crafts movement, with a dash of rural French medieval buildings. The study of Renaissance buildings led to geometries becoming more formal, as in the beautiful William G. Low House, Bristol, RI —7.

This celebrated design made the firm's reputation. This growing interest in Antiquity reached its apogee in the enormous and brilliant Pennsylvania Station, NYC —11—destroyed , with the gigantic hall based on the thermae of Caracalla, Rome.

It not only worked extremely well, but was the most Sublime work of architecture in the USA—its destruction was a grievous loss, as was the demolition of the perfect Madison Square Presbyterian Church, NYC —6 , another variant on the Pantheon theme, but with polychrome enrichment. The Georgian Revival Symphony Hall, Boston — , was much more subdued, but the series of great works of the three decades — including the very fine J. Save mckim mead white to get e-mail alerts and updates on your eBay Feed.

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About the Author Allan Greenberg, a native of Johannesburg, South Africa, is an American architect and one of the leading classical architects of the twenty-first century. Taylor Trade Publishing July 16, Language: Don't have a Kindle? Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers.

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