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• W767579438 abstract "It was Thomas Jefferson, who in March 1803, appointed Latrobe Surveyor the Public Buildings the United States. And it was Jefferson's taste that Latrobe had to deal with when completing a structure that was well advanced in design and construction when he came to the post.49 Initially, as Secretary State under Washington, 1789-94, subsequently during his service as vice president under John Adams, 1791-1801, and finally as President, 1801-09, Jefferson took overall charge the planning and construction the United States Capitol. He is understood to have wanted the Capitol to be a didactic showcase the architectural orders, specifically the three canonical orders, but in their Roman variants. A Roman Doric was to be displayed in the House Representatives, an Ionic version in the Senate, and reserved for the exterior facades was the Corinthian.50 For the exclusively Latin orders, the Tuscan and Composite, that he and many others regarded as post-antique inventions, Jefferson had little regard. Consequently they lacked any real authority for inclusion on a building that sought to simulate an ancient Roman past with its historical legacy democracy and republicanism.Following a competition won by William Thornton, a physician and amateur architect, work on the Capitol commenced in 1793. Nevertheless, in the immediately succeeding years there followed a series alterations to Thornton's design Jefferson and several architects working under his supervision, notably Stephen [Etienne] Hallett, George Hatfield, and, yet again, Thornton. Consequently, when Latrobe became Surveyor in 1803, with the confusion that resulted so much interference, indecision reigned and only limited progress had been made in construction. He arrived at a project in which the north wing that housed the Senate was thought to be largely complete, but work on the central domed section as called for in the plans had not properly begun. Also, beyond the foundations and the beginnings the oval hall within which the House Representatives was to convene, little advancement had been made on the south wing. Latrobe would remain in charge design and construction at the Capitol until 1811. He would return to the building 1815 to 1817, when damage the purposeful 1814 fire set by the British during the War 1812 required extensive reconstruction.During his first campaign he undertook completion the north wing as the most immediate task.51 On the exterior, replicating the features the south wing, the facades would again be Corinthian. As he later recalled in a letter to the Congress, from that there could be no deviation.52 For reshaping the interior, in the inaugural status report April 4, 1803, which he forwarded to Jefferson, he recommended that the colonnade that surrounded and defined the House chamber be of a freestone series columns the Corinthian or Attic that were 2'6 in diameter and stood 25 feet with a five-foot-high entablature above.55 However, this initial attempt to introduce the Attic on such an unprecedented scale was to no avail and Latrobe was quickly forced to give way to Jefferson's taste for Doric columns, but with bases in the Roman manner. This predilection for the Doric may have had symbolic underpinnings. Unlike the Senate whose members represented the various states, the House, having been directly elected by a broad section the expanding (male) American population, epitomized the base on which the government's authority rested. Therefore it warranted use the Doric not only as the earliest order, but also because metaphorically it was characterized as the strongest and most masculine. Disregarding such symbolic considerations, Jefferson was taken to task by his architect, who dismissed his selection as architecturally unsuitable. Not only was Latrobe uncomfortable with a hybridized order, the Roman Doric, referred to by Riou as a vulgar modern error, but more important, as he sought to demonstrate in a March 1804 drawing (Figure 17), he also found that the requisite frieze was entirely unsuited to such an installation. …" @default.
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