Key Architects: The Revivals

Question 1

Robert Adam

Answer 1

1728-1792

Gothic Revival.

Question 2

John Nash

Answer 2

1752-1835

Regent Street, London, 1809-1826

Question 3

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Answer 3

1720-1778.

Etching of Colosseum 1757.

Question 4

Robert Smirke

Answer 4

1780-1867.

Greek revival

British museum, London, 1823-1846

Question 5

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Answer 5

1781-1841.

Prussian Classicism.

Neue Wache, Berlin, 1816.

Question 6

Jacques-Germain Soufflout

Answer 6

1713-1780.

French Neo-Classicism

Sainte-Geneviève (later Panthéon), Paris, 1757-1790.

Question 7

Horace Walpole

Answer 7

1717-1797.

Gothic Revival

Strawberry Hill, 1749-1776.

Question 8

Étienne-Louis Boullée

Answer 8

1728-1799.

French Neo-Classicism

Cénotaphe à Newton, sketches, 1784.

Question 9

James Wyatt

Answer 9

1746-1813

Gothic Revival

Fonthill Abbey, 1790.

Question 10

Leo von Klenze

Answer 10

1784-1864

Greek Revival

Glypthotek, Munich, 1815-1830
Proyläen, Munich, 1846-1860
Walhalla, Regensburg, 1831-1842

Question 11

Eugène-Emmannuel Viollet-Le-Duc

Answer 11

1814-1879

Gothic Revival

Iron gothic

Question 12

Marc-Antoine Laugier

Answer 12

1713-1769.

The primitive hut

Starts structural thinking in architecture with the sekelton structure, 1753.

Question 13

Henry Hoare II

Answer 13

1705-1785.

Stourhead landscape garden, 1741–1780.

Question 14

Hubert Robert

Answer 14

Ermenonville landscape garden, 1766–1770.

Question 15

Johann Friedrich Eyserbeck

Answer 15

Wörlitz landscape garden, 1769–1773.