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Bernard Ashmole CBE MC (22 June 1894 – 25 February 1988) was a British archaeologist and art historian, who specialized in ancient Greek sculpture.He held a number of professorships during his lifetime; Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of London from 1929 to 1948, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at University of Oxford from 1956 to 1961 ...
Though the term is usually reserved for the more thorough style that forms part of 20th-century rational architecture, [5] characteristics of Stripped Classicism are embodied in works of some progressive late 18th- and early 19th-century neoclassical architects, such as Étienne-Louis Boullée, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Friedrich Gilly, Peter Speeth, Sir John Soane and Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
The crowning achievement of this movement was to be Welthauptstadt Germania, the projected renewal of the German capital Berlin following the Nazis' presumed victory of World War II. [8] Speer, who oversaw the project, produced most of the plans for the new city. Only a small portion of the "World Capital" was ever built between 1937 and 1943.
Robert Chitham (1935 or 36 – 13 September 2017) [1] was a British architect and writer. He was the author of The Classical Orders of Architecture published in 1985. A revised edition was published in 2005. [2] He drew from the diagramming and harmony of proportions of classical forms starting from Vitruvius, to Palladio, and foremost to James ...
Stalinist architecture (Russian: Сталинская архитектура), [a] mostly known in the former Eastern Bloc as Stalinist style or socialist classicism, is the architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933 (when Boris Iofan's draft for the Palace of the Soviets was officially approved) and ...
Donald Turner (1895–1964), architect, was born in Maitland, New South Wales.He began his architectural career as a student with Ross & Rowe in 1912. [1]: 82 In 1915 he enlisted in the First All and served as captain until 1919 with the Field Artillery in Egypt and France.
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Paul Ludwig Troost (17 August 1878 – 21 January 1934) [1] [2] was a German architect.A favourite master builder of Adolf Hitler from 1930, his Neoclassical designs for the Führerbau, the Verwaltungsbau der NSDAP and the Haus der Kunst in Munich influenced the style of Nazi architecture.