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Post-Fire Plan of North Wing Showing Latrobe's New Circular Vestibule. Benjamin Henry Latrobe. "Plan of the Principal Story of the North Wing of the Capitol U. S. as authorized to be built, 1817". Ink and Water color on paper. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (128)
1 de mar. de 2021 · Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820) was not, strictly speaking, America's first professional architect, although he was the first to demand a 5 percent fee, that recent innovation in English contracting. But he could do what none of his predecessors could: compose buildings imaginatively as space and volume and realize them in superb vaulted masonry. His Bank of Pennsylvania, Catholic ...
Biografía. Benjamin Henry Latrobe nació el 1 de mayo 1764 en Fulneck, Yorkshire, Inglaterra. En 1776 comenzó a estudiar en Moravia, Alta Lusacia, Alemania, apadrinado por el barón Karl von Schachmann, erudito interesado en el arte clásico y el coleccionismo. Alrededor de 1783, Latrobe comienza a estudiar arquitectura, siguiendo un ...
Thomas Jefferson convinced Latrobe to accept a position of Surveyor of Public Buildings in 1803. He became Architect of the Capitol in 1815 and was responsible for the Capitol's rebuilding after it was destroyed in the War of 1812. Benjamin H. Latrobe, ca. 1804 by Charles Willson Peale. Artist. Charles Willson Peale. Date of Work. ca. 1804. Type.
Works by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, a British-born architect, were influenced by Greek Revival styles and those of British architect John Soane.Latrobe emigrated to the United States, living initially in Virginia, then in Philadelphia, before being hired to work on government projects in Washington, D.C.
Historia. La Basílica se construyó (1806-1821) a partir de un diseño de Benjamin Henry Latrobe - el primer arquitecto profesional y capacitado de Estados Unidos [3] y arquitecto del Capitolio de los EE. UU., de Thomas Jefferson; bajo la dirección del primer obispo, John Carroll.
27 de jun. de 2018 · Latrobe, Benjamin Henry Boneval (1764–1820). English-born Moravian architect of French descent, educated in England and Saxony (where he absorbed many advanced ideas, partly through Freemasonry), who introduced an advanced, austere Neo-Classicism to the USA. He was a pupil of S. P. Cockerell before setting up his own office in 1790 from which ...
