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HTC Part 1- Personalities
Part 1- Personalities
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
04/17/2011

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 Petrarch
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Thinks Gothic= bad. Father of humanism
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Piranesi
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Vedute di Roma; Carceri (prisons) thought roman was better, not greek. Didn’t like the Doric.
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Lodoli
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first collector of gothic details and medieval arts. Thought roman was better than greek. Believed in Structural rationalism.
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 Soufflot
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first modern architect. Thought Greek was better than roman. Uses eclecticism. Believed in structural rationalism.
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Laugier
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thought Greek was better than roman. A Jesuit priest. 1)free standing column. 2)structural clarity. 3) don’t copy, use principles. 4)rationality.
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Winckelman
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thought Greek was better. Called for imitation of ancient forms.
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Bridgeman
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(1690-1735) Stowe Gardens (the Ha-Ha). First change to more natural looking. Used symmetry with wandering paths. Largest English garden in Europe.
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Kent
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(1731-1748) Follies: the temple of Venus, the temple of ancient virtue, the temple of British worthies. Built Rousham House.
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Brown
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the “gardenless” garden, would reconfigure the ground to look “natural”.
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Repton
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“Red Books” to present projects. Watercolor perspective with overleaf that showed new designs. Transitional personality in English landscape design.
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Rickman
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Gothic historian. Wrote An attempt to discriinate the styles of English Architecture, 1817. Built 21 of the 214 new churches with Church Building Act.
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Nash
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Designed Royal Pavilion. First to play around with new form. A new thinness in interior because of cast iron.
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Paxton
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1836-51, Designed Great Conservatory & Crystal Palace ( culmination of 75 years of iron and glass).
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Loudon
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1817, Wrote “Remarks on Hot Houses”, pre-fab green houses.
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Turner
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1844, Designed Conservatory at Kew Gardens, and Regent’s Park Wintergarden.
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Labrouste
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designed Bibliothéque Ste. Genevieve. 1843. Bibliothéque Nationale. 1858.
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Horeau
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designed Jardin d’Hiver #2, 1847.
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Baltard
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Designed Les Grand Halles. 1849-52
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Haussmann
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Prefect of the Seine under Napolean III.(Sewage plants, aqueducts, wider streets, less roof)
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Jones
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REFORMER. Influenced Sullivan. Embraced geometry. 1)Connection between Society & Architecture. 2)Truth in Materials. 3) New style will evolve.
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Queen Victoria
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1837, rise of merchant/middle class. Ornament lost it’s meaning. Division of labor, art, knowledge.
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Pugin
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Push for reunification. Designed the Grange, 1841. All ornament should enrich structure. Buildings should articulate every function as a different volume.
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Cole
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1)Crystal Palace. 2)South Kensington Museum and School of Design. 3)”The Grammar of Ornament”
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Ruskin
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Wrote “The Stones of Venice” & “The Seven Lamps of Architecture.”
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Scott
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Won competition for the Foreign Office Building and for Prince Albert Memorial. Designs Midland Grand Hotel.
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Rossetti
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One of the Pre-Raphaelite Brothers. Did mostly poetry and painting. Helped with Reunification of Art.
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Morris
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friends of Webb & Rossetti, designs interiors of Red House with Webb. Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861-75) leading medieval interiors. Morris & Co. (1875-96) designed mostly textiles, achieves IKEA. In Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings.
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Webb
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designs with Morris on the Red House. Queen Anne Style.
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Shaw
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designed New Zealand Chambers. Arts and Crafts Movement.
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 Bogardus
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patented cast iron framing for exterior of building. Designed Harper Bros. Building-1854, McCullough Shot Tower-1855(first non-load bearing masonry on an iron frame)(First Skyscraper)
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Badger
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Designed Haughwout Building-1857, US Warehousing grain elevator-1860 (1st non-load bearing masonry building)
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Otis Brothers
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Designed Otis Safety Elevator, NYC Fair, 1853.
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Viollet-le-Duc
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Took gothic to rational conclusion. Many restorations. 1)dwarfed column. 2)inclined column. 3)iron
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Schinkel
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Designed Altes Museum-1823 & Bauakademie-1831. Prussian style, greak neoclassical language with little ornament.
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Semper
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Wrote “The Four Elements of Architecture”(hearth, earth in platform, roof on columns, enclosure) & “Der Stil”(base design on quality/properties of materials)
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Furness
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eclectic diversity, complexity. Influenced by Emerson and Violet-le-Duc.
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Richardson
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simpler, compact. 1)Renewing the Romanesque. 2)Redefining the library. 3)The shingle style. 4)Disciplining Picturesque. Never split the arch.
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Post
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Designed Equitable Life Assurance Building(first skyscraper according to historians) & Western Union Building.
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Van Osdel
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Designed Kendall Building. Could have been first skyscraper, but it got burned down. Emphasis on horizontal for additional floors.
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Hunt
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Designed the New York Tribune Building. 3-2-1 arches.
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Le Baron Jenney
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Designed Portland Block.
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Roebling
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Designed Ohio River Suspension Bridge, led to Brooklyn Bridge.
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McLaughlin
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Designed Shillito’s Department Store (largest department store in the country)
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Hannaford
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Designed Music Hall (largest auditorium and convention center in the US) Held Presidential Conventions.
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Root
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Designed Montuak Block-1881, Burlington & Quincy RR Building-1885, Rookery-1885 & Monadnock Block-1889. New technologies with fireproofing, and new foundations.
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Burnham
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Designed with Root .(Montauk Block, Burlington & Quincy RR. Building, Rookery & Monadnock Building) New technologies with fireproofing, and new foundations.
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Adler & Sullivan
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Designed The Auditorium. Used the electric light. Designed Walker Warehouse with vertical articulation.
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Petrarch
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Had a mission to translate Greek, Barlaam teaches him.
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Petrarch
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father of philosophic renaissance.
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Piranesi
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A student of Lodoli.
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Lodoli
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Criticized greek for copying wood detailing.
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Soufflot
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Realizes there’s not one set of proportions.
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Soufflot
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Built Ste. Genevieve. First columns with Euler’s bucking equation.
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Laugier
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“A primitive hut”
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Laugier
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Essai sur l’architecture.
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Winckelman
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Founder of Neoclassicism.
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Winckelman
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Wrote "Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture". & "Observations on the Architecture of the Ancients"
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Bridgeman
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Built Rousham House.
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Brown
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Was an assistant to Kent.
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Repton
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Played with perception of size of estate with wandering paths. Re-introduced formal terraces and themed gardens.
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Repton
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Designed Greenhouse at Royal Pavilion. showed how glass would "break the box" of the room
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Rickman
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Pre-fab cast iron Gothic Revival Churches.
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Haussman
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“Paris under glass”.
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jones
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Wrote “On the Influence of Religion upon Art” & “Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of Alhambra” & “The Grammar of Ornament.” Became the bible for 2nd half of the 19th century.
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Pugin
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Wrote “Contrasts” & “The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture”, & “An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture.”
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Pugin
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Parallel Jone’s ideas.
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Cole
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first commercial Christmas card.
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Ruskin
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Defends the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Rossetti
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Drew “The girlhood of Mary Virgin” Designed the “Sussex Chair”
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Violet-le-Duc
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Wrote “Entretiens.”
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Schinkel
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Designed Iron Cross.
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Semper
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Designed Dresden Opera House. Interested in Romanesque.
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Furness
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Designed Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, B & O Railroad Terminal, & University of Pennsylvania Library.
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Richardson
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Designed Trinity Church, many libarays, Stoughton House, & Glessner House & Marshall Field Wholesale Store.
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