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Modern Architecturial History I
Beginning with the basis of modern architectural theory extending back to the mid-18th century, this course traces the progress of theory and design through the end of the 19th century.
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
10/03/2009

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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

Style and function:

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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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Empiricism

Definition
How humans assess information through the five senses.
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Experiential
Definition
How the design takes into account the individual’s emotional experience with it.
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Rationalism
Definition
When the structure of a building is obvious, when the load and support is explicit.
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Peristyle
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A parameter of columns

(ETYMOLOGY: peri - parameter / style - stylos - column)

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Associationism
Definition
Bringing something forward from the past in order to expound on certain commentary regarding the present.
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Rococo
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Artistic style. Superficial, not natural, unrealistic physique, with pastel colors.
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Neoclassical
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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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Greco-Gothic synthesis
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 A fusion of Classical appearance and a Gothic structure.
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The Sublime
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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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Peripteral
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A building with a perastyle.
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Octostyle
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A building with an eight column peristyle on the facade.
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Hexastyle
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A building with an six column peristyle on the facade.
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Tetrastyle
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A building with an four column peristyle on the facade.
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Trabeated

 

Definition
A building constructed using a post and lintel system as opposed to arch and support system.
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1789
Definition
The beginning of the French Revolution.
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1688
Definition
The Glorious Revolution in Britain
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1776
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The American Revolution
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1815
Definition
The Defeat of Napoleon I
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"Modern"
Definition
References past works - but makes a strong effort to create something distinctively NEW
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"Ancient"
Definition
New architecture that bases itself on close, careful borrowing of the past - faithful to the ancient buildings.
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Whigs
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The progressive political party of British Parliament.
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Tories
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The conservative political party of British Parliament.
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The Picturesque
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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
Definition
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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Eclecticism
Definition
Borrowing from various Architecture styles and incorporating them into one subject.
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Crenellation
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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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Arrondissement
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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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Degagement
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Urban planning that puts an emphasis on demolition as more important than construction.

 

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The Terror
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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 Three Estates
Definition

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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Laissez-faire Urbanism
Definition
 “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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Speculation

Definition
Building with the assumption that people will buy and rent in the area.

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William Thorton
Definition
An American medical doctor who submitted the original design for the United States Capitol Building.
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Benjamin Latrobe
Definition
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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Charles Bulfinch
Definition
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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Thomas Walter
Definition
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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Jacques-Louis David
Definition

French painter

--Oath of the Horatti (1784)

--Fete de la Federation (1790)

--Images of the Fete (1793)

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Abbé Laugier
Definition
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?

Definition
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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