Charles Bulfinch
Charles Bulfinch is an American architect , (Boston, Massachusetts August 8th 1763 - id. April 15th 1830).
Biography
Graduate of Harvard in Mathematical and perspective, it travels to Europe to study architecture. On its return to Boston, it is established as architect and tries to transpose the Urbanisme English and the European Architecture in the American culture.
The town of Boston off engages it like Chairman the Board off Selectmen and superintendent of police force. Under its direction, the civil center of Boston takes a traditional style which separates gradually from its European sources.
In 1818, Bulfinch succeeds Benjamin Latrobe as an architect of the Capitole of Washington, which had been set fire to by the British in 1814. This station enables him to continue to develop a neo-classic style American in simplicity and refinement. With a very academic precision, it makes evolve/move the form and the materials of neo-classic architecture to reach a right mixture of asceticism and structural needs.
Achievements
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1805 : Faneuil Hall, with Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1813 - 1814: Harvard University Hall, with Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1818 - 1823: General Massachusetts Hospital, with Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1795 - 1797: Massachusetts State House, with Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1793 - 1830: United States Capitol, with Washington D.C
Internal bonds
Architecture in the United States
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