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Title: The Primitive Hut
Artist: Laugier
Date: 1755
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Title: The Oath of the Horatti
Artist: David
Date: 1784 |
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Title: The Pantheon
Artist: Soufflot
Date: 1755-1780
Location: Paris, France
Style and Function: A fusion of a Basilica and a Centrally-Planned Church. A peripteral building with a Corinthian Hexastyle temple front. Features Greco-Gothic synthesis with a Neoclassical Exterior, but a Gothic architectural system. Used as a secular Mosemleum, originally a church.
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Title: Cenotaph to Newton
Artist: Boullee
Date: 1785 |
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Title: Chiswick House
Artist: Lord Burlington and William Kent
Date: 1725
Location: London, England
Style and Function: Parliament house with a tripartite vertical division and a tripartite horizontal division. A peripteral building with a Corinthian Hexastyle temple front. Neoclassical.
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Title: Kedleston Hall
Artist: Robert Adam
Date: 1760-1761
Location: Derbyshire, England
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Title: Syon House
Artist: Robert Adam
Date: 1760-1769
Location: Middlesex, England |
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Title: Stourhead
Artist: Flintcroft
Date: 1744-66
Location: Wiltshire, England |
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Title: Strawberry Hill
Artist: Walpole
Date: 1749-1977
Location: Twichenham
Style and Function: Gotick Architecture (Gothic with no adacemic intent - popular gothic). Also a Picturesque Architecture. Exterior has crenelations, strong variety, movement, asymmetry, machicolations, accretion, symbiosis with nature, and irregularity in shape.
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Title: Strawberry Hill (Interior)
Artist: Walpole
Date: 1749-1777
Location: Twichenham |
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Title: Culzean Castle
Artist: Robert Adam
Date: 1777-92
Location: Ayrshire
Style + Function: “Sublime” building. Inspired Strawberry Hill. Another strong example of Picturesque Architecture - complete with eclecticism, asymmetry, and movement, symbiosis with nature. Relies on the Ocean for the Sublime feeling.
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Title: Fonthill Abbey
Artist: James Wyatt
Date: 1795-1807
Location: Burned to the ground... :(
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Title: Pierre Patte's 1765 Map of Paris
Artist: Pierre Patte
Date: 1765
Location: Paris |
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Title: Fete De La Federation
Artist: David
Date: 1793
Location: Paris |
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Title: Images of the Fete
Artist: David
Date: 1793
Location: Paris |
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Title: Place Louis XV (1748-55) / Place de la Revolution (1790) / Place de la Concorde (1799-)
Artist: --
Date: 1748-1799
Location: Paris
[image]Place Louis XV (1748-55) / Place de la Revolution (1790) / Place de la Concorde (1799- ) |
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Title: Rue de Rivoli
Artist: Percier and Fontaine
Date: 1802
Location: Paris
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Title: Arc de Triomphe
Artist: Chalgrin
Date: 1806
Location: Paris
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Title: Avenue de l'Opera
Artist: Haussmann
Date: 1860
Location: Paris
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Title: Paris: A Rainy Day
Artist: Caillebotte
Date: 1877
Location: Paris |
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Title: Regent Street
Artist: John Nash
Date: 1814
Location: Lodon |
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Title: Plan for Washington D.C.
Artist: L'Enfant
Date: 1791
Location: Where do you think?
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Title: The United States Capitol Building
Artist: Thorton, Latrobe, Bulfinch, and Walter
Date: 1792-1865
1792-1803: Thorton
1803-1817: Latrobe
1818-1826: Bulfinch
1850-1865: Walter
Location: Washington D.C.
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| How humans assess information through the five senses. |
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| How the design takes into account the individual’s emotional experience with it. |
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| When the structure of a building is obvious, when the load and support is explicit. |
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A parameter of columns
(ETYMOLOGY: peri - parameter / style - stylos - column) |
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| Bringing something forward from the past in order to expound on certain commentary regarding the present. |
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| Artistic style. Superficial, not natural, unrealistic physique, with pastel colors. |
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| Artistic Style. Structured, natural, an emphasis on photorealism in protrayal. Reviving the Classical style of the past with associationism. |
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| A fusion of Classical appearance and a Gothic structure. |
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| An artistic blending of the empirical and the experiential - relying on the five senses to invoke an emotionally aweing experience. |
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| A building with a perastyle. |
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| A building with an eight column peristyle on the facade. |
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| A building with an six column peristyle on the facade. |
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| A building with an four column peristyle on the facade. |
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| A building constructed using a post and lintel system as opposed to arch and support system. |
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| The beginning of the French Revolution. |
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| The Glorious Revolution in Britain |
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| References past works - but makes a strong effort to create something distinctively NEW |
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| New architecture that bases itself on close, careful borrowing of the past - faithful to the ancient buildings. |
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| The progressive political party of British Parliament. |
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| The conservative political party of British Parliament. |
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A aesthetic theory with three emphasizes:
1) The appearance of a painted picture
2) A learning laboratory to educate the individual
3) A sense of narrative about a story or about historical events |
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| The Grand Tour was the traditional travel of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. |
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Borrowing from various Architecture styles and incorporating them into one subject.
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| [image]The small openings on the edging of castles (like Strawberry Hill). A design aspect, but originally used for defensive reasons (i.e. archery during sieges). |
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The equivalent of a district, established by Napoleon I and continued by Napoleon III - used to help divide the city.
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Urban planning that puts an emphasis on demolition as more important than construction.
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| A distinctive moment in the French Revolution that was underscored with a great deal of internal violence. |
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The social classes of France:
1st Estate- Clergy, owned 10% of all land (tax exempted)
2nd Estate- Nobility, owned 35% of the land (tax exempted)
3rd Estate- Everyone Else - The “Middle Class”, 55-65% (paid all the taxes). 80% of the population. |
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| “Hands off” urbanism. Particularly in London. The King was not interested in the architecture and urbanism of London - it is left up to individual firms - private sector. As opposed to Paris urbanism where the Emperor was the autocrat of architecture. |
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Building with the assumption that people will buy and rent in the area.
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| An American medical doctor who submitted the original design for the United States Capitol Building. |
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| A British Architect who came in on the United States Capitol Building project. With architecturial education, Latrobe fixed the structurial errors in Thorton's original plan - altering the floorplan and design. |
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| The Architect who Congress brought in to replace Latrobe when construction on the United States Capitol Building was going to slow. Finished the original Capitol Building in 1826. |
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| 20 years after its completion, he redesigned Charles Bulfinch's Capitol Building at the decree of President Millard Filmore in order tomodernize its symbolism to include the new American terrotories. |
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French painter
--Oath of the Horatti (1784)
--Fete de la Federation (1790)
--Images of the Fete (1793) |
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| Catholic Preist who wrote the controversial, Essay on Architecture, which called for rationalism in architecture. Also drew "The Primitive Hut" to accompany the essay. |
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Who is William Thomas Beckford? |
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| After being ostrocized from high society, he became the leading force behind the construction of Fonthill Abbey. Despite enforcing 24 hour construction, he wasn't present when it fall apart. |
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