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Laugier, Essai sur l’Architecture/Essays on Architecture

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written in 1753 talks about the Primitive hut

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Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA, 1787

Architect: Charles Bulfinch

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Circus, Bath, England (1754-74, John Wood the Elder)

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l’architecture parlent

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“speaking architecture”

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Isaac Newton’s Cenotaph, Unbuilt, 1784

Architect: Boullée

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Royal Salt Works, Arc-et-Senans (1775-79, Ledoux)

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Thomas Jefferson’s thoughts on Palladio

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“Palladio was the Bible”

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Serpentine walls

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Snake like walls, curving, self supporting

eg. University of Virginia

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Monticello II, Charlottesville, VA ,1796-1809

Architect Thomas Jefferson

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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (b. 1817, Jefferson)

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Rotunda, University of Virgina, Thomas Jefferson

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U. S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. (1793-1830,

Architects:Thorton, Latrobe, Bulfinch

dome: 1855-65, Walter

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John Soane House/13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London (1812-37, Soane)

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Altes Museum, Berlin (1824-28, Schinkel)

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Gottfried Semper

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mid 19thC

Four basic elements in architecture:

platform, hearth, roof, and enclosure

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Second Bank of the U.S., Philadelphia, PA (1818, William Strickland)

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Sublime

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of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe

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Royal Pavilion, Brighton (1815-23, John Nash)

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Houses of Parliament, London (1840-65, Sir Charles Barry, A. W. N. Pugin)

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Contrasts (1836)

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written by Pugin describing the contrast between the idealized city (gothic churches etc) and the industrilized city (pagen churches, church steeples replaced by smoke stacks)

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Baltimore Cathedral/Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore (1806, Latrobe)

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Morse-Libby House, Portland, ME (1859, Henry Austin)

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Trinity Church, New York, NY (1839-46, Richard Upjohn)

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Industrial Revolution

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The rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery. It was characterized by the use of steam power, the growth of factories, and the mass production of manufactured goods.

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Crystal Palace, London (1851, Joseph Paxton)

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Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879)

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architectural critic and father of historic preservation Discourses on Architecture (1863-72)

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École des Beaux-Arts

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Famous art school in Paris. Any well known architect during this time would of learnt here

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Georges Eugene Baron Haussmann (1809-1891)

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designed massive program of new boulevards, parks and public works in Paris

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Mansard Roof

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roof that has four sloping sides, each of which becomes steeper halfway down

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Paris Opera (Charles Garnier, 1861-74)

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Eiffel Tower, Eiffel, Paris 1889

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Metro stations (Guimard, 1900)

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Bibliotheque Nationale (Labrouste, 1860s)

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John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)

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Ruskin’s principles of architecture

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Lamp of Truth

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Arch should not:

  • Suggest a structure other than one used
  • Included painted surfaces to represent something else
  • Use cast-iron or machine made ornament of any kind
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Lamp of Life

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Bad workmanship is better than good work from a machine

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All Saints on Margaret Street, London (William Butterfield, 1849-59)

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S. Pancras Station, London: Midland Hotel (G. G. Scott, 1868-74)

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Victoria Terminus/Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai (1878-1887, Frederick Wm Stevens)

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The Breakers, Newport, RI (Hunt, 1892) for Cornelius Vanderbilt II

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Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (Furness, 1871-76)

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Richardson Romanesque (5)

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  1. picturesque
  2. round “Romanesque” arches supported by short squat columns
  3. recessed entrances
  4. rustication
  5. cylindrical towers with pointed tops caps
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Trinity Church, Boston, MA (1872-77)

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