Greek Revival Architecture

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Greek Revival Architecture

• SundeePeanut Productions
• Sundeep Singh, Jung Hoon Kim

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Some information

• The Greek Revival was an architectural movement
  of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
  centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and
  in the United States. A product of Hellenism, it
  may be looked upon as the last phase in the
  development of Neoclassical architecture.

• Building materials include brick and stone,
  particularly for important buildings, but wood
  was also used. Early on, wood homes were often
  painted white with green shutters. Thin
  weatherboard siding was used over a wood frame.

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and some more.

• The Greek Revival dwelling is broad in
  proportions, and simplified in details. The
  universal image is a monumental two-story temple
  front with a pedimented gable (trimmed by
  moldings along the base and sloping sides).
  Columns may be freestanding or applied to the
  façade (front surface). Alternatively, when the
  eaves face the street, they are finished with a
  cornice and the gable side is embellished with a
  cornice return.

• The columns makes it look like one story, and
  since this is typically style for residential,
  commercial, institutional and governmental
  structures, the number of stories can vary. The
  White House has 6 stories, for example. The
  Capitol Building has 5. Among other examples,
  there are the San Francisco Mint and our very own
  Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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the last bit

• To express the purity of the Roman arts,
  neoclassical structures calls for white exterior.
• The Greek Revival style was used among the
  architects of the American Renaissance movement.

• The Greek Revival style was used by architect
  Benjamin Latrobe in his contributions to the U.S.
  Capitol Building, the Bank of Pennsylvania and
  the Basilica of the National Shrine of the
  Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in
  Baltimore.

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Bibliography

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Revival
• http//blog.oregonlive.com/homesandgardens/2007/11
  /greek_revival.html
• http//jan.ucc.nau.edu/twp/architecture/greek/
• http//www.visitingdc.com/images/white-house-pictu
  re.jpg
• http//www.siordata.com/governance/Capitol-Buildin
  g-at-Night,-Washington-DC.jpg
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7
  /Old_US_Mint_(San_Francisco)_2.JPG