Beaux-Arts Architecture

Beaux Arts is an opulent subset of the Neoclassical and Greek Revival architectural styles. A
dominant design during the Gilded Age,

By the 19th century, Paris was already a city rich in architectural history., but due to the
industrial revolution the features of ancient architecture began to disappear. The revival of
ancient movements was the same in the cycle in Europe. At the School of Fine Arts in Paris,
however, this phenomenon has been improved to a distinct style, a beautiful reimagination
of the history of architecture. The style was named after the school itself. Drenched in
classical teaching, Beaux Arts engineers created massive buildings built in the shape of an
ideal Renaissance, equipped with Greek and Roman elements, inlaid with baroque
decoration.

Beaux-Arts architecture is synonymous with America's Renaissance movement. lasting from

roughly 1885 to 1925. The first Americans to study there were Richard Morris Hunt and
Henry Hobson Richardson. They brought the style to the United States

Beaux-Arts architecture is massive and heavy, lending itself to the construction of

monumental public buildings like train stations, schools, and government buildings.

It’s usually constructed with stone, with a symmetrical façade. The façade of Beaux-Arts
buildings typically features adornment reminiscent of Greek and Roman Architecture such
as balustrades, or vertical posts on balconies, columns, arched, pediments, bas-relief.

The main features of this school are :

 Focus on symmetry

 Hierarchy of interior spaces

 Classical details, including columns and pediments

 Highly decorative surfaces

 Statues and figures embedded within the façade

 Raised first story

 Stone or stone-like materials

 Arched windows
architects; Joseph-Louis Duc, Félix Duban, Henri Labrouste and Léon Vaudoyer, who had first
studied Roman and Greek architecture at the Villa Medici in Rome, then in the 1820s began
the systematic study of other historic architectural styles, including French architecture of
the Middle Ages and Renaissance

In the late 1800s, during the years when Beaux-Arts architecture was at a peak in France,
Americans were one of the largest groups of foreigners in Paris. Many of them were
architects and students of architecture who brought this style back to America. Among the
most prominent pioneers

 Otto Eugene Adams

 William A. Boring
 William W. Bosworth
 Arthur Brown Jr. Daniel Burnham

Beaux-Arts was very prominent in public buildings in Canada in the early 20th century
Among the most prominent pioneers

 William Sutherland Maxwell

 John M. Lyle
 Ross and Macdonald
 Sproatt & Rolph
 Pearson and Darling
Pont Alexandre III
was built between 1896 and 1900 in Paris The bridge was built by the engineers Jean
Résal and Amédée Alby

The Grand Palais.

Paris (1897–1900) The Grand Palais was the main exhibition space built in preparation
for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. The sumptuous and ornate styles of Beaux Arts was
a perfect match for a dizzying fair during La Belle Époque.
 The Manitoba Legislative Building 

Canada (1913) by , Frank Worthington

Simon

 The building is famous for the Golden

Boy, a gold covered bronze statue based
on the style of the Roman god Mercury,
or the Greek god Hermes, at the top of
the cupola

Paris Opera house

 1847 , Paris, by Adolphe Adam

Tucumán Government Palace

1910 , San Miguel de Tucumán,  Argentine

architect Domingo Selva, whose design was an eclectic form of French baroque, with
an Italianate influence

Buenos Aires House of Culture

1898:, Buenos Aires, Argentine

architects Carlos Agote and Alberto Gainza

 Trinty Church

1877 , Boston-USA , by Henry Hobson Richardson

Flinders Street railway station

1900 ,  Australia, by James Fawcett and Ashworth

 Metropolitan Museum of Art
1870 New York City was
designed by American
architect Calvert Vaux and his
collaborator Jacob Wrey Mould.

Low Memorial Library

(1895) Manhattan by Charles Follen McKim