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Flashcards by Jasper Anderson, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 1638-67 A convent on a complex and small plot of land. The geometry Transform the previous style - gives it movement and style Shake the rules of the previous style keeping the classical elements. Movement and dynamism in the facade Invention, playfulness, freedom tiny space with a lot of light, curves and counter curves, hidden light Interior Classical as well as new and inventive The space is not too ornamental with material, yet it is ornamental the way it plays wit space And volume | |
| ~Cornaro Chapel, in the left transept of the Church of S. Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1647-52 The inside of this building is surprisingly ornamental (there are illusions in structure and material) - hidden window and theatre set up. The sculptures have different characteristics engrained into them | |
| Church of the Transfiguration or Campania de Jesus, Cusco, Peru, 1651-68 Spanish model of the church 2 towers Interior Much more contrast between the main altar and the rest of the church. The altar is gold. Painting and sculpture. - while the rest of the church is more bare | |
| Germain Boffrand, Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, begun 1732 originally built as a home for Francois de Rohan, Prince of Soubise The Rococo style was also manifested in the decorative arts. Its asymmetrical forms and rocaille ornament were quickly adapted to silver and porcelain, and French furniture of the period also displayed curving forms, naturalistic shell and floral ornament, and a more elaborate, playful use of gilt-bronze and porcelain ornamentation. Example of rococo architecture | |
| ~Louis Le Vau, André Le Nôtre, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Palace and Gardens of Versailles, Versailles, 1661-1708 The variety of material in construction, diversity of orders, like other baroque Built "envelopes" around original castle in stone city grows around palace Axiality, succession of courtyards Control and transformation of the landscape Procession of space is like Chinese Courtyards Idea is that there is no end/limit to Louis XIV's control 1- Water mirrors 2- Parterres - flower drawings meant to be seen from above 3- Bosquets little groves - surprise, contrast, playfulness (baroque) 4- Perspective of the infinite | |
| Charles Eisen, Frontispiece for Marc-Antoine Laugier’s Essay on Architecture, 1755 based on reason - and princliped of reason (advocated for simplicity and ordinary) similar to the neoclassicism movement. engages colonial works - takes what they want from nature (nature is infinitly fertile) with no consequences. Explains/justifies colonization. | |
| John Soane, House for himself, London, 1812-37 Labratory fo rhis architecture, and a place to bring his students created interior landscape - extensive use of skylights designed interspace thinking in a painter emulated vast vairty of lighting effects that one would expirence in nature ceiling like a canopy in a forest for light making this house almost an excyclopedia of styles from all over the world in a gallery | |
| ~Babban Gwani, Friday Mosque, Zaria (present-day Nigeria), c. 1830 Vaulting in the interior Thich walls which show timeline Windows were high up withc are a way the heat escapes the building | |
| ~Djenne Mosque, Mali, 13th century, rebuilt in 1907 Vaulting in the interior Thick walls - shows timeline Uses projections as scaffolding (workers are able to climb them and apply the next layer of adobe to the building - becomes and aesthetic of the building Astridge eggs as a sign of fertility Sand floors (which are hard as rock) Interior courtyard | |
| ~John Soane, Bank of England, London, 1792-93 -Example of neoclassicism - one of the earliest neoclassical buildings in england. -Awkward shaped plans -Vaulted roofs The building was meant for public functions as well as keeping paper records it organized a libral society -This building enabled the growth of the british empire - represented growth and power. | |
| Etienne-Louis Boullée, Cenotaph to Sir Isaac Newton (project), 1784 (unbuilt) -Mausoleum to isaac newton -Reproducing what we have learned from the natural world -Basic elements of architecture -Celebrated nature, reason and progress | |
| Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, Arc-et-Senans, France, 1775-78 -Salt was a major commodity - there was an intrest in increasing production and productivity -More efficient means of refining, making and productivity for workers -Near a forest, easier to transport wood than water -Shape reflects panopticon - everyone is accounted for -Architecture reflects purpose - form and materials and texture reflects the function of the building. | |
| Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon, c. 1791, (unbuilt) New model for a prison -Reflects society - michele foucault -Everyone is watched and accounted for -Represents discipline not punishment -A theory instead of necessarily a building | |
| Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri Print Series, 1760, (unbuilt) Dystopian - prison series Imagines prisons - impossible architectural forms -machines which built Closed interior spaces Relationship to ancient salt mines No rational space Management /order/control not equal to rationality | |
| William Simpson (artist), Watercolour of an Indigo Factory in Bengal, India, 1863 Shows disappearance of nature - overworking landscape Agriculture at a different scale Harsh effects of workers Illustrates industrial process Landscape was controlled by economic command connection between spaces and realtionship to trade - transforming nature to accomidate production Part of enlightenment Way of rationalizing + control over nature Leads to disappearance of nature | |
| Thomas Salmon, “Plan of the City of Cochin,” 1729 Cochin - southwester india Important sights of trade Boats represent trade different arangement of the city in comparison to western compact use of space on the interior | |
| Iroquois Longhouse, c. 1600 20 or more families lived in one longhouse. built by women - no walls on the inside - communical living built of wooden poles and stakes that were tied together with leather strips. The roof was rounded, and the entire longhouse was covered in tree bark, flaps in the ceiling to let smoke out the english longhouse was a copy of this house | |
| Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Virginia, 1772 finest examples of the early Classical Revival style in the United States. expiramental garden There are public and private entrances and the house is surrounded by extensive gardens Sundowns on the second floor start at the floow level - so the house appears to only have 1 level - service rooms are under the landscape Turntables in the walls for slaves to push food through so you dont see them visual supression of slaves in spacial organization Influenced by palladio - villa rotunda |
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