Talk:Georgian architecture
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American editors whose only experience of Georgian architecture is in Colonial American architecture and neo-Georgian need to be careful not to ascribe localisms, such as columns of painted wood or ship-lap clabboards (inherited from East Anglian vernacular architecture), to describe the style as a whole. --Wetman 20:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
- Point well taken, but you should not assume that I am Ameircan simply because I write about it. etc. I checked on some books and found no reference to East Anglian vernacular. At any rate, if you can verify the fact that US Georgian wood buildings have as their source East Anglian buildings then you should put it in. It would be a good addition.Brosi 00:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
- My point was a general one, not a personal one. American colonial Georgian architecture is a provincial reflection: it does not define the style. That the clapboard siding of East Anglia is the prototype for New England clapboarding is a commonplace. Isn't it remarked upon in passing in any survey of American colonial architecture? --Wetman 07:11, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Georgian Style/Georgian architecture
Yes College of William and Mary is not the best example. Feel free to change it. Faneille Hall in Boston is better, not a classic case either. The main problem I have is ambiguous difference between the Georgian Style and those buildings built during the reigns of all the king George, i.e. Georgian architecture. The term could refer to both. There were a lot of byuildings during the reigns of the king that does not conform to what is now known as the Georgian Style. Should this be discussed? I.e. how would you rank St. Mary Woolnoth, by Nicholas Hawksmoor). It is often listed as an example of Georgian architecture but is it Georgian in the stylistic sense? Perhaps you know.Brosi 21:42, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
- The college of William and Mary (completed 1702) was an unlucky hit: famously one of the very few Baroque structures in the colonies. "Georgian style" simply applies to classicizing buildings built during the reigns of the Georges: "flourishing mainly under George III" is an artifact of insufficient experience with Georgian buildings outside USA: could the reader suppose that fewer structures were built?. Not every chicken coop built was "Georgian": that's what is expressed by the expression "vernacular" building". A good on-line article that sets "Georgian" (which is an American "synonym" for "Classicizing") colonial architecture in historical context is James Deetz, "In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life" skim down to p. 110. Deetz gives a sense of building practice. --Wetman 07:11, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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- OK You can please remove William and Mary - I found the example in one of my books taht listed it as Georgian - maybe not a good book. But what would a more proper example be in the US. There are dozens of houses, but I was thinking of something a bit more noteworthy. How about the the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia (1706-1714)?Brosi 15:59, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
