Movement
Beaux-Arts Architecture
Explore in the Atlas →The academic classicism taught at Paris's École des Beaux-Arts, marked by symmetry, monumentality and eclectic historical ornament; it shaped grand civic buildings, museums and railway stations across France and Gilded-Age America.
Power Memory
Details
- Origin
- Paris, France
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonAncestry
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- influenced City Beautiful Movement
Referenced by
- Neoclassical Architecture influenced
- Spiro Kostof associated with
Sources
- Arthur Drexler (ed.). The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts. Museum of Modern Art, 1977.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Beaux-Arts Architecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/beaux-arts/. Accessed July 17, 2026.