Capital Problem

The Attic Order and the Greek Revival in America, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 103, Part 5)

Arthur S. Marks

• Publisher: The American Philosophical Society Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9780871690340
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Architecture

Explores the history, application, and accrued meanings of the attic order in America, beginning with Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who employed the order. The author traces the genealogy of the architectural influence as it passes from Latrobe to his disciples to their disciples. Latrobe saw "a singular exception, a unique design feature that, besides having a direct and indisputable association with ancient Greece, also offered Americans an architectural order that might be naturalized, that might be made their own." The work is extremely fine-grained, and rich in references, especially to 18th- and 19th-century architectural literature. 45+ b& w plates.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 An Ancient Order for American Architecture
• 2 Rediscovering Greek Architecture and Discovering the Attic Order
• 3 The Attic Order and English Neoclassical Architecture
• 4 The Attic Order Comes to America
• 5 Latrobe and a Capital for the Capitol
• 6 Latrobe and the Attic Order Outside Washington
• 7 Latrobe Returns to the Capitol
• 8 William Nichols and Robert Mills: Taling the Attic Order South
• 9 Taking the Attic Order Beyond Washington
• 10 American Variants on the Attic Order
• 11 The Attic Order, Its Variants, and American Domestic Architecture
• 12 The Attic Order in Decline
• 13 Yet the Attic Order Persists
• Index