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CIVIC ART

Civic art is one of the highest art forms - it's what makes great cities unique and
special. Civic art is the sum total of the architecture, public spaces, monuments, urban
design, and landscape of a city, but it is far more than the sum of the parts. Civic art is
place making into art that creates timeless civic values and helps define cultures.

Werner hegemann(1881-1936) was a leading German architect journalist and urbanist,


and Elbert peets (1886-1968) an American architects, town planner, and writer.
They published The American Vitruvius: AN Architect’s handbook of civic art in 1922.
Hageman, along with others of his generation, was precocious in his interest in
American developments, although he is less interest in monumental civic design-fueled
by the city beautiful movement and the accompanying classical revival-to a long
European tradition, which he saw as directly relevant to both the practical and
aesthetic challenges of the modern city.
East wing of the Louvre (1665–
80), one of the most The Louvre Palace looking west across the Cour
influential classical facades Napoleon and the Louvre Pyramid
ever built in Europe
The Courtyard of the Louvre Museum at night
ROME VICINITY OF ST. PETER’S
The little temple is set in the centre of a court of twice
The diameter of the temple. The arcade around the court
Has the same number of columns as has the same number
Of columns as has the temple. The problem of the curved
Façade is interesting. To this project of bremante’s the
Following words by wren might well be applied; ‘in this court
We have an example of circular walls: and certainly no enclosure
Looks so gracefully as the circular ; the circle that equally
Bounds the eye, and is every where uniform to itself.”
PLAZAS AND COURTS DESIGNED IN EUROPE
Built 1663—1718 by Barelli,Vyscardi, Zuccali, and Effuer, Gardens designed by Girard, a disciple
of Le Notre.There a long canal, accompanied by quadruple allies, on axis of the main entrance.
Thus a full axis view was not wanted, a case which has been compared with Bernini's sidewise
entrance to the Piazza San Pietro in Rome. Approaching through one of the avenues one sees at
its end a small framed picture which after one enters the forecourt suddenly broadens out. The
contrast between the enclosed alley and the open forecourt makes the latter appear very large.
The size of the central members of the palace appears large through being contrasted against the
low members immediately to the right and left of it, The height of these low members corresponds
again to the height of the other buildings one sees in the foreground immediately after entering the
forecourt. AS they frame the entice outer forecourt an optical scale carried into the background
from which the size of the main buildings can be appreciated. (From a drawing of Franz Herding,
after a photograph published by Erinckrnann.)
The square, which occupies the site of the ‘royal mews’
or Stables, was built in the thirties by sir charles barry .
The nationa Gallery, by wilkins, and the nebon
monument, by baily, date from the same period.
St. martin’s church, by gibbs, is a century older.
The admiralty arch was Built by ir aston webb in 1910.
These studies by the authors, illustrate the adaptations of various Renaissance motives to
modern conditions and grid iron pattern
Birds eye view developed from plans Civic center surrounded by traffic signal at lower level
Plan and sketch for civic group
The buildings fronting on the small oblong forecourt plazas would have to
be simple and uniform, thus subduing the little left-over blocks at the
ends of the plazas, Or these blocks might be the sites of specially designed
pavilions, which would have to be high enough to conceal the buildings
back of them on the diagonal streets.

Five World Fair Plans


University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1898 General Plan of Columbia University, New York
An effort to insert a
pleasant variation into an
existing gridiron. The plan
facilitated the creation of
a garage court in the
center of the round block,
reached by a lane from
the street. The assorted
doll-houses are due part
to the fact that the
MILWAUKEE. GRAND CIRCLE drawing had to be
The straight: street which dominates the design is a appropriate for use as a
continuation of a straight city boulevard running out newspaper
from a large park, his formal axis, which drops ten feet advertisement.
to its middle point and then rises twenty, both is straight
MILWAUKEE. WASHINGTON HIGHLANDS grades, bridges over a creek valley developed as an
informal cross-axis.
Cities as Unified Plans

LAND SUBDIVISIONS AND RESIDENCE GROUPS DETAILS FROM THE PLAN OF WYOMISSING PARK
HOLLAND SQUARE

STREET SECTIONS FOR WYOMISSING PARK


WYOMISSING. LAKE VIEW AVENUE WYOMISSING. LAKE VIEW PLAZA

MADISON. STUDIES FOR THE PLAN OF LAKE FOREST

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