THE CAPITAL REGION:WASHINGTON DC

DC= District of Columbia.

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*surrounded by the 4 states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.*situated in the Eastern mid coast of the USA

*Reason of this location= its central location between the northern and southern states, its accessibility to the sea and the cheapness of the land*Importance=US history has been shaped there

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*The first British settlements in the 17th century around the Chesapeake Bay, the Slave market, the Revolutionary War in the 18th century, the Civil War ( 1861-1865) , the Civil Rights and Protest movements in the 20th century.

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*The Mason-Dixon line => function*was north of the Chesapeake Bay*The Capital Region was mostly south, below the line

*symbolic border between North and South*was drawn up in 1793 as the boundary between the free and unfree states.

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• The first colonists/ settlers:

* British *made fortunes in tobacco

*hoped/wanted to find gold.*first economic resource was tobacco

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*Black people =slaves*backbreaking work of harvesting tobacco*built the Capitol.

*contributed to the birth of the nation *helped the first colonists to make fortunes

Faneuil Hall in Boston

Georges Washington bridge New York

Golden Gate bridge San Francisco

The Guggenheim Museum New York

The Guggenheim Museum in New York has a spiral shape that resembles a shell or a snail. Its windowless circular ramp is a

quarter of a mile long and of an expanding diameter. The building is almost 100 feet high (it has a height of 100 feet) and is

capped with a flat-shaped dome.

The Kheops Pyramidtriangular shape/146m high/base=230m long

Paul Revere’s house Boston

The Paul Revere House (1680) was the colonial home of American patriot Paul Revere during the time of

the American Revolution.

The Renwick GalleryWashington DC

The Renwick Gallery, features one of the finest collections of American craft in the United States. Its collections, exhibition program and publications highlight the best craft objects and

decorative arts from the 19th century to the present.

The Taj Mahal

Washington Monument is obelisk shaped (it has the shape of an obelisk,

(i.e. it is a 4-sided tall narrow monument, which

endsin a pyramid-like top). It is 1.1 m wide

and about 170 m high.

Jefferson Memorial is a circular building with a dome-shaped roof. It has a

height of about 6 m.

The U.S. Capitol, one of the most recognized buildings in the world, serves as a symbol of

democracy, the home of the House and Senate and a tourist attraction visited by

millions every year. 

The White house was built between 1792 and 1800. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he expanded the building outward, creating

two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage

Lincoln memorial

What you need to know is that architecture, that is the art of building, has its own language. As a matter of fact looking at

buildings is just like reading a book in any kind of language. What I mean to say is that you need to understand the basic elements

that compose it before you start, but once you feel sure about the structure of the language then you can read anything.

Dealing with the grammar of architecture means you will face, let me see now, three essential aspects: first, style which is

related to historic periods, then category and last, building material.

Well, style is what helps us identify the time when a building was built and why it was built. Well of course, styles

have changed a lot in the past and as with other fashions, you all know that older styles are sometimes revived.