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NeoRomanesque / Romanesque Revival
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| See also -
Romanesque Revival &
Rundbogenstil (German round-arched neo-Romanesque) in New York city and
Victorian
Romanesque +
Federation
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Neuschwanstein, Bavaria , Leo von Klenze & Christian Jank, 1868 |
Ludwigskirche, Munich, 1829. Friedrich von Gartner |
Leeds Corn Exchange, Cuthbert Brodrick 1860 |
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| Union Station at Providence, Rhode Island |
Central Market, Lancaster, PA, 1889 James H. Warner |
Nazaret Kirke Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| The Royce Hall, at UCLA, inspired by The
Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, Italy |
Neo-Romanesque details in a neo-Renaisssance
structure:New York State Capitol, Albany, New York |
Iglesia Metodista
Unida de Sur Tres
, Brooklyn, NY |
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| Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh,
Scotland |
Temple Emanu-El,
New York |
Boys’ High School,
Brooklyn, NY |
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Federal Archive Building,
New York |
Richardsonian
Romanesque: Bexar County Courthouse, San Antonio, Texas |
St. Saviour’s Anglican Church,
Sydney, Australia. |
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Former John Taylor Warehouse,
Sydney, Australia. |
Queen Victoria Building,
Sydney, Australia. |
Shelbourne Hotel,
Sydney, Australia. |
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| In the first decade of the nineteenth century,
Napoleon Bonaparte established a new Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. The
publications of J.-N. L Durand, its professor of architecture, introduced
architects in many European countries to the author’s ideas about the need
for a rational expression of masonry construction. Durand based his
essentially utilitarian brand of architecture on those historical styles
which used semicircular arched openings of moderate size set in substantial,
plain stone walling: Florentine Renaissance, Byzantine, Early Christian, and
Romanesque. Durand’s doctrines were especially influential in Germany, where
the round-arched idiom, known as the Rundbogenstil, was used in Munich in
the 1820s by such eminent architects as Leo von Klenze and Friedrich von
Gartner. In Britain there were a few minor forays into the Romanesque style
for churches in the 1840s, even as the Gothic Revival grew from a trickle to
a torrent, and Cuthbert Brodrick’s impressive Corn Exchange of 1860—63 in
Leeds has Rundbogenstil façades of rugged stonework. The United States also
provides us with occasional examples of a freely interpreted Romanesque
style, such as the Union Station at Providence, Rhode Island, begun in 1848
to the design of Thomas A. Teift. |
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Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a
style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and
12th century Romanesque style of architecture. Popular features of these
revival buildings are round arches, semi-circular arches on windows, and
belt courses. Unlike the classical Romanesque style, however, Romanesque
Revival buildings tended to feature more simplified arches and windows than
their historic counterparts. The style was quite popular for courthouses and
university campuses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century,
perhaps the best-known of these being the University of California, Los
Angeles. The style was widely used for churches, and occasionally for
synagogues such as the Congregation Emanu-El of New York on Fifth Avenue
built in 1929.
By far the most prominent and influential American architect working in a
free "Romanesque" manner is
Henry Hobson Richardson. In the United States the style derived from
examples set by him are termed "Richardsonian Romanesque". |
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