Stripped Classicism is primarily a 20th-century classicist architectural style stripped of most or all ornamentation, frequently employed by governments while designing official buildings. It was adopted by both totalitarian and democratic regimes. The style embraces a "simplified but recognizable" classicism in its overall massing and scale while eliminating traditional decorative detailing. The orders of architecture are only hinted at or are indirectly implicated in the form and structure.
The German Imperial Embassy (designed 1911–12) on Saint Isaac's Square in Saint Petersburg is considered the key template for Stripped Classicism. It was stripped still further when the large statues originally placed on the plinth on the roof were removed during World War I
Victoria Palace, Bucharest, Romania, 1937–1944, by Duiliu Marcu
Albert Speer's Zeppelinfeld outside Nuremberg, in 1934
Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
Paul Philippe Cret was a French-born Philadelphian architect and industrial designer. For more than thirty years, he taught at a design studio in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
Paul Philippe Cret
Main Building at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, one of 20 campus buildings that Cret designed
THE Eternal Light Peace Memorial at Gettysburg Battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, designed by Cret and sculpted by Lee Lawrie in 1938
Cret designed historical markers for the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, whose successor organization put up this tablet to mark Cret's former home at 516 Woodland Terrace in Philadelphia.
