... the importance of the events transpiring inside them. One building that particularly exhibits diversity is the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. As an example of 19th-century neoclassical architecture, the Capitol Building is constructed of stone bearing masonry, with a cast iron dome. The symbolic white colour to the building signals that designers wanted to exhibit that America was a new and pure nation-state. The designer of the Capitol Building is William Thornton, a famous architect of the 18th century. His desire was to construct a grand building in classical architecture, a style that developed from his early fascination with famous architectural authors such as Andrea Palladio and Sir William Chambers. The dome in particular was adapted from the Roman Pantheon and was to represent classical ideas of civic virtue and self-government2. The passion for classical, specifically Greek, architecture in the beginnings of the American state was part of a search ...

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