The American Vignola: A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture (Dover Architecture)

Vignola codified the rules of classical architecture for the Italian Renaissance . . . Ware codified Vignola for the American Renaissance. — John Barrington Bayley from the Introductory Notes to The American VignolaFrom 1890 to 1940 Americans designed and built classical architecture on an extraordinary scale. During this American Renaissance were built countless libraries museums universities courthouses capitol buildings and other structures both public and private rich with domes pediments colonnades and other classical features. We built with unparalleled grandeur architect and scholar John Barrington Bayley observes and our architecture led the world. More than any other document of the period The American Vignola laid the groundwork for this grand resurgence in American architecture. Its author William R. Ware founded America's first school of architecture at M.I.T. in 1865 and sixteen years later the School of Architecture at Columbia University. He became America's leading teac