Architecture, Building and Planning

Most architectural historians have stated that Th. Jefferson imitated the Maison Carrée in Nîmes in the design of the Virginia State Capital in Richmond, VA. This has then led to the agreement that this imitation means that Jefferson wanted to symbolize the democratic form of the new American government. Is this analysis correct, in your expert OPINION ? What reason is there to faver a political explanation to the more reasonable assumption that Jefferson merely copied an earlier building?

What are the building parts and design features of the Newton Cenotaph by E.L. Boullée that qualify this project as fitting the building type for a tomb/memorial?

Explain why it is correct to identify the Piazza del Campidoglio as a Mannerist, and St. Peter’s Square a Baroque design. Imagine yourself standing in either square and reflect, or speculate, on what you see and how you would feel in each one, and provide arguments that would support the above stylistic identifications.

Why does the Karlskirche appear to be a unified design even though it is assembled from a number of diverse, even different, parts? Try to answer this question by writing an esthetic critique of this building.

How can the Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans be read as a guide to how post-revolutionary, that is, democratic, life will be in France? Can you see details in plan, form, and decoration that could be translated from architecture into written guidelines for that society, and/or instructions as to how life should be lived in a democratic state?

Architecture, Building and PlanningFunction and purpose
Relationship with other context=interior and exterior
Aesthetic value