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Shutze goes Greek at Emory

Fraternity row is a treet of mansions on grand lots, the perfect setting for Greek temples with a southern tinge. Two are by Philip Trammell Shutze.

The 7 bay KA house has a tripartite form.
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Dormers, un-fluted ionic columns, pilasters. White walls in the portico.
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The dormers look like little temples up there with seriously thick moldings that throw shadows.
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Label molding for the windows; puny shutters don't look quite right.
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Broken pediment with scrolls and and urn. The door seems modest for a temple.
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The 5 bay Chi Phi House is now the ZBT House. From the street it looks like a house built inside a temple. I love the first floor windows.
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It has a very wide front door, more prominent that the KA's.
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The porch windows are French doors with paneled bottoms and transomes.
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Huge architrave (horizontal beam supported by the columns), with wreathes. Square pilaster and square columns on the end, the rest are fluted Doric.
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Architecture Lesson
This is the correct way to line up your columns: Line up the shaft with the architrave. This means that the capitals extend beyond the architrave. Lots can go wrong with columns design. But your eye will notice a misaligned column immediately even if you can't identify what's wrong.
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I'm going to the 2010 Philip Trammell Shutze Awards on February 20th in Atlanta You should too. In the run up to the awards I'm doing a batch of posts about Shutze in my "neighborhood." No pro photography or pro architecture was committed in this post.

Thanks,
Terry
terry @ surf303.com