The Architecture of McKim, Mead, and White by Greenberg Allan;George Michael; & Michael George

Author:Greenberg, Allan;George, Michael; & Michael George
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1222053
Publisher: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING

Detail of the elevation and section of the Bibliothèque Sainte Genevieve in Paris designed by Henri Labrouste. This building provided one precedent for the design of the Boston Public Library. (Drawing by Allan Greenberg)

Victory Leading General Sherman, sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens; architect, Charles Follen McKim. This beautiful statue is at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in New York. (Photo, Allan Greenberg)

The great campus at Columbia University was inspired by the example of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago and the Nènot design for the Sorbonne in Paris.14 The development of the Pantheon ideal from Ancient Rome, via Jefferson, to the Low Library is a marvelous challenge to the appreciation of the genius of the architects of all three buildings. The layout at Columbia may also have grown out of Jefferson’s plan for the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Columbia, in turn, inspired Cass Gilbert’s layout for the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.

McKim, Mead & White revitalized the design of the town house with such beautiful structures as the Nickerson and Pyne houses. Study of these designs will provide ample rewards for designer and student. At a smaller scale, the brilliant collaboration between sculptors like Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies, Stanford White and McKim should be discussed. Stanford White and Augustus Saint-Gaudens designed the innovative memorial to Admiral Farragut where the unity of form of sculpture, typography, and architecture describes the shared vision of these two men. McKim and Saint-Gaudens collaborated on the great Shaw Memorial on the Boston Common. However, their finest work, also commemorating the Civil War, is the statue of Victory leading General Sherman, situated at the southeast corner of Central Park. McKim’s design for the base is the equal of the best equestrian statue bases in Europe.

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