Ste. Genevieve

Neoclassical

iron tie rods based on East Facade of the Louvre

• Kedleston Hall
• based on arch of constantine (4 columns carrying entablature
• main arch with two side arches, circles above side arches)

• Kedleston Park
• Robert Adam

Robert Adam

Middlesex

1760

Syon House

neoclassical

Syon

carried out picturesque- changes in levels and axes, columnar screens, color palettes, and furnishings

Syon House

Great Hall

Syon House

Great Hall

Syon House

contrast between ante chamber and great hall- color, richness of material, marbelized stucco, gilding on wall and ceiling ornament. 

Syon House

Long gallery

Syon House

Dining room

• 18th century
• intellectual and philosophical life
• birthplace of modernity
• moving away from a public lifedominated by the royal courts, aristocracy and church
• growth of a middle class,of mercantile interests, of liberal press and rational science
• the atmosphere of public life in European capital demanded an urban setting in which politicl, artistic, economic, social, and cultural issues could be debated

1755

Anges- Jacques Gabriel

Place Louis XV

at west end of the Louvre

similar to east facade of the Louvre

Project for an ideal street

1769

source of water in the fountain

system for disposal of water waste

neoclassical

• city planning became a public process instead of an action taken by the royal
• proposals for new building typologies that would strengthen the economy and provide needed services

• disengaging buildings from the surrounding urban fabric which opens up space to permit a monument to exist wo obstructed vision

• Halle au Ble (grain market)
• 1763

• building typology that emerged in second half of 18th
• theater was courtly forms and not enjoyed by the public
• Voltaire- freedom of thought and stage
• appreciation of theatre= new thinking about plays and their architecture

• theaters used to have audiences on the stage= blurred line between observer and actor
• Roman amphitheatre discovery= new way of thinking of the theater form

1767

Paris

Charles de Wailly

Comedie-Francaise

circular arrangement

staggered balconies

extra seating above the cornice in the vaults

generous circulation=public ritual

Versailles Opera House

neoclassical

enlightenment

Anges-Jacques Gabriel

1763

1579

Palladio

Vicenza

• comedie- numerous streets radiating from its semi circular edges
• teatro created scenic vistas behind the walls, comedie built those vistas as extensions of the public square

Stairhall, Grand Theatre

created a grand interior for the public

1773

Bordeaux

Victor Louis

Jacques Gondoin

Paris

1769

School of surgery

courtyard is perceived as public space

School of Surgery

colonnaded entry- propylaeum

School of Surgery

half- Pantheon

Courtyard of Somerset House

Somerset House

by Jean Louis Desprez