• More interested in Inigo Jones then 
• popular with second whig generation 
• they liked Court taste from 1630 to 1710, Wren, ne thing Baroque bc associations w French Court

• Vitruvius Brittanicus (classical buildings in Britain)
• The Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books
• these books demanded an English academy of art (Earl of Shaftesbury)

Chiswick House

• 1725
• Richard Boyle and William Kent
• England

Chiswick House

Palladian

Corinthian temple front as a portico

Chiswick

newel posts are marked by urns

Important architectural details= stone

otherwise stucco

West Facade at Chiswick

Limited stone detailing

Chiswick

stairs lead to a serliana window which is big enough to be opened and used as a door

• Chiswick
• organized around central domed rotunda w an octagonal plan
• south, west, east rooms are square and rectangular
• north rooms are octagonal, circular and rectangular

Chiswick

• Proportions are different
• used different orders for the porico
• different placement of sculptures
• palladio's portico is not open on all sides
• palladio has an extra story
• Palladio- all 4 sides are identical
• Circular vs octagonal dome

Chiswick

• 1666
• many were left homeless
• Rebuilding Act- dictated floor heights but not style
• Nicholas Barbon- layed out whole streets as unified designs

1729

Bath

John Wood the Elder

Palladian

• Studied the history of architecture
• Bath had been a Roman City
• Wanted to create new Roman monuments for the city

• 1754
• Bath
• John Wood the Younger
• arranged like an inversion of the Colosseum
• facades exhibit the classical orders

Circus at bath

town houses have bridges and courtyards

Circus

not bisected along an axis but entered from three radial streets

1767

Bath

John Wood the Younger

Palladian

concept- 2 demi- colosseums facing each other

Ionic order 

1721

Vienna

Lukas von Hildebrandt

Frontispiece for the second editionf of Marc- Antoine Laugier's Essay on Architecture

1755

Muse points to hut as the embodiment of architectural truth

Nikolaikirche

Classical Columns 

source of classical form in nature

Nikolaikirche

1784

Leipzig

Johann Friedrich Dauthe

James Stuart

1751

Debated sources of modern classicis: Greece or Rome?

Hagley

1758

Worcestershire

James Stuart

based on Propylaea

Julien David Leroy

View of the Propylaea

does not match topography of actual site

Tomb of the Scipios

Biovanni Battista Piranesi

1756

Believed Roman buildings were superior to Greek

Piranesi

exaggerated the number of columns

1757

Jacques-Germain Soufflot

study for the Church of Ste-Genevieve

Paris

Church of Ste-Genevieve

not based on Greek precedents

Development of the Christian church type

J.D. Leroy

1764

Ste. Genevieve

first design small clerestory windows