Beaux-Arts architecture denotes the academic neoclassical architectural style that was taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The style "Beaux Arts" is above all the cumulative product of two and a half centuries of instruction under the authority, first of the Academie royale d'architecture, then, following the Revolution, of the Architecture section of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. The organization under the Ancien Regime of the competition for the Grand Prix de Rome in architecture, offering a chance to study in Rome, imprinted its codes and aesthetic on the course of instruction, which culminated during the Second Empire (1850-1870) and the Third Republic that followed. The style of instruction that produced Beaux-Arts architecture continued without a major renovation until 1968. The Beaux-Arts style heavily influenced US architecture in the period 1880–1920. Other European architects of the period 1860–1914 tended to gravitate towards their own national academic centers rather than fixating on Paris.

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