Federalist Architecture

William Thornton, The US Capitol Building, Washington, DC 1793-1850

- He picked neoclassical architecture for a reason. It means "new classism". - Ancient Greece was the foundation of western culture and language. He liked the idea of greek democracy. If we really want to emulate greek democracy, then architectures should echo it too. Lofty idea. - It leads Monticello to the white house. - dome on the top - had a copper roof on the capitol, then during the war, something hit the dome. So they had to rebuild it.

Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1769-1806

- Jefferson designed Monticello very similar to the European house. - When he was in America, he had a typical Georgian house. Flat face, 3 stories then he saw buildings in Europe as he traveled. So he redesigned his house based on Pantheon in Rome, Vella Rotunda in Venice, chiswick house. - rococo guy - the only element that he did not copy was those staircases. Nothing fancy. - has wings on the both side - He wanted to have his personal house as his palace.

Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia, Rotunda, Charlottesville Virginia

- Look much it looks like Monticello. - He was a very well-versed classical architecture - Boston state house is designed in a classical way.

Thomas Jefferson, Virginia State Capitol, 1785-92

- Our first great architect with purpose. - Jefferson was an inventor of lots of things such as automatic doors, dumbwaiter, polygraph, french fries, tomato sauce lol - Modeled after the Roman temple: Maison Caree. - Entrance to the building in Rome has two columns and pediments. - He designed a bigger in size but pretty much the same. - real columns + engaged columns

Claude Perrault, East Facade of the Louvre, Paris, 1667-70

- similar to the capitol (?)