ARLH 206 Quiz 2

• - who was as Italian architect, designed Villa Rotunda, most influential figures in western architecture

• Wrote: Four Books of Architecture, 1570

what book is about:

• -1st book is about: building materials, techniques, and five orders of arch.: tuscan, doric, ionic, corinthian, and composite 

• -2nd book is about: town houses, country estates 

-3rd book is about: streets, bridges, piazzas, basilicas, etc.

-4th book is about: roman temples, including the pantheon -

-who was a French architect, draftsman, and antiquary; 

-became a leading authority on ancient Roman architecture and Roman ruins in Italy and France. 

what is

• -Located: Nimes, France 

• -What: well preserved ancient roman building that represents textbook definition of a roman temple

what style was

-When: Dominated american architecture: 1780-1840

-What: principal design of the colonial period, evolved from the Georgian Style 

-Who: was an engineer, architect, and city planner who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and subsequently designed the spatial plan for Washington, D.C.

-Who: Architect, 3rd president of the US, and founding father 

Built: State capitol, Washington D.C 

Best Known: for homes such as Monticello, and Popular Forest (became laboratories for his design interests) 

-Who: 1st american architect who gained fame as a designer of government buildings

Built:

• - Massachusetts State House (1795-98)

• - Connecticut State House

• - Maine Capitol

- Who: British born architect, and civil engineer who established architecture as a profession in the United States.

-was the most original proponent of the Greek Revival style in American building.

Built:

• -US Capitol

• -Decatur House 

Who: Irish-American architect, best known for designing the White House