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Arch History 2 Final Flashcards

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Jacques-Francois Blondel

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“radical style”

disposition vs distribution

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Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières

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“The Genius Architecture”: character of architecture/ art of pleasing/ the primacy of feeling

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Charles Le Brun

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physiognomy

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physiognomy

and who

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expression of passions (studying human face) (Brun)

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“the little house”

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shows architecture can be seductive (Bastide)

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radical style

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style should fit the purpose of the building (Blondel)

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“The Genius Architecture”

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the “character” of architecture and art of pleasing (Mezieres)

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Bastide

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“The Little House”: novel shows architectural seduction

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9
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three french visionary architects

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imagination

  • Boullee
  • Ledoux
  • Lequeu
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Marc-Antoine Laugier

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“essays on architecture”

rational approach in a chaotic and principle-less age

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“essays on architecture”

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defined the ‘primitive hut’ (Laugier)

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12
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Soufflot

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Saint Genevieve (french pantheon)
debated with piers over the pantheons dimensions
Leader of rational design while traditional renaissance arch follows human life

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Saint Geneive

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french pantheon (soufflot)
most important french 18th cen. building
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Soufflot focused on ______ while the renaissance traditionally focused on ______

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rationality

human life

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Edmund Burke

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book on “sublime”

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Boullee

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drawings:
“magnificent scale”
simple geometrical bodies
sublime

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magnificent scale

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humans look very small

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sublime

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more related to darkness than light
nothing can be sublime
related to boullee’s drawings

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Ledoux’s most important design

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Ideal city of Chaux: individual buildings focus on individual needs

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Lequeu

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self portraits
bedchambers in dream
temples for nature (hunting gateway)

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Giambattista Vico

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“Principles of New Science”

recycling history

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“Principles of New Science”

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(vico) uses references to the past over progressive scientific models

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Carlo Lodoli

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teaches proper use and nature of materials

pragmatic ideas–> reductive modernist motto

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the “reductive modernist motto”

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form follows function

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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two engravings:

  • views of rome
  • prisons (drawn twice)
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Piranesi’s two engravings compared to each other:

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prisons (the second set) is much darker/twisted

27
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Piranesi’s Prisons engraving was…

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very ahead of his time

28
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Chinoiserie

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(imitating Chinese techniques in western art/architecture)

fantasy toward other cultures and the folies transplanted from exotic architecture and gardens

…. Anglo-Chinese gardens

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Anglo-Chinese gardens from what perspective:

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french ironic perspective

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Giuseppe Castiglione

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Jesuit painter
lead design team of European baroque gardens for Chinese emperor in Beijing
integrated western metaphysical perspectival view and Chinese cosmological meandering view

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Viollet-le-Duc

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RATIONAL FRENCH GOTHIC REVIVALIST
french leader of classical revivalism
gothic revival
rationalist despite reviving romantic gothic churches

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Charles Barry

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houses of parliament in London

nationalistic impulse

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nationalistic impulse

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gothic revivalism in england

34
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houses of parliament

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(barry) looks like classic gothic due to nationalistic intention

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arts and crafts movement

which/where movement

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english gothic revivalism

traditional craftsmanship during the age of mass production and machinery

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leader of arts and crafts movement:

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William Morris

Red House

37
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red house (which movement)

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apart of the arts and crafts movement

38
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neo-palladianism

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cross Atlantic movement (USA and England)
thomas jefferson
follows Palladio’s four books

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Thomas Jefferson

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brought neo-palladianism through univ of virginia and his monticello house

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Utopianism in USA

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french concept used in early settlements

41
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Charles Fourier

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french philosopher
leader in concept of Utopia
designs were influential to USA settlements

42
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Ecole des Beaux Arts

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Paris school.
watercolor drawings
education of classicism overthrew tradition

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Ecole Polytechnique

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engineering school that includes architecture teaching

44
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Jean Durand

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taught the utilitarian art of composition at Paris schools.

rejected Vitruvian classic orders

45
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Crystal Palace

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London
Joseph Paxton
vision of modern transparency

46
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Joseph Paxton designed _______ in London

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Crystal Palace

47
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Jeremy Bentham’s study

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Panopticon

48
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Panopticon

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designed prisons that shows the power of vision (Bentham)

49
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neoclassicism emphasizes

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romantic sensations

50
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John Soane

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England
house of memory
design of bank of England
theory of architecture as a costume

51
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Gottfried Semper

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Germany

“The Four Elements of Architecture”

52
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Semper’s the 4 elements of architecture:

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hearth
roof
enclosure
mound

53
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Semper and Soane both compare architecture to….

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costumes/dressing

54
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel

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most important german neoclassic archi

atlas museum

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Atlas Museum (who and importance)

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(schinkel)

shows some romanticism in drawings

56
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Soufflot mixed…

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gothic and renaissance

57
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the french pantheon argument was about

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dimensions/cost/rationality

58
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bed chambers in dream by

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lequeu

59
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temples for nature

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lequeu

60
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house of memory (who)

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Soane

61
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bank of England (who)

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Soane

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