The National Archive building is one of my favorite architectural works of art ever done. My family and I visited Washington D.C. for the first time in my life this past summer, and all of these buildings could be on this list as they all have beautiful architectural taste to them. The meaning of this building to me really just represents one word, “history”. The style of the material of the building shows how old it is, the old style of the pillars makes it look like a powerful and important building, and the mere size of it is astonishing as well. The way it affected me was it really made me appreciate how well the architecture was associated with the building, and the detail of the entire building.
The encounter that I had when I first visited this building was astonishing. As it was the first of the major building in D.C. that I visited, the large size and detail of the building caught me off guard almost. My thoughts and feelings towards this experience of visiting the national archive were happiness and satisfaction. I thought it was nice to be able to experience a very rare and distinct type of architecture and to study and understand the meanings behind this wonderful piece of architecture.