This site is dedicated to my digital forensic reconstructions of several neoclassical architectural masterpieces within the nation's Capitol that are now lost to time.
The first project I've focussed on is the Capitol's famous Hall of Representatives, a chamber that embodied the nation's ambitious goals and one that Thomas Jefferson suggested might be one of the world's most magnificent rooms; yet no topographical record of it exists as it was destroyed by fire in 1814. With the use of computer imaging programs, I have recreated the Hall from thousands of bits of design and construction information culled from letters and drawings between the principals.
I'm available for design consultation, architectural analysis, and visualization. Please contact me with your specific needs. The methods I've developed here would be applicable to analysis and visualization in other professions, such as engineering, archaeology and law.
Click on the menu item "Design Chapters" above to see some finished images... and check back often as I'll continually be adding images.
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Lecture at the Jewish Center of Princeton.
See Richard's recent article and his ground-breaking images in Libellio d'Aegis, published at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
Profile of Richard Chenoweth in Vanderbilt Magazine.
Chenoweth was awarded a second U.S. Capitol Historical Society Fellowship for research on the Capitol.