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NEOCLASSICISM

Revival of Classical Architecture; GREEK & ROMAN.



Simple, strongly geometric composition; shallow reliefs on facades; “Temple–Like” as ideal form.



Style was influenced by Vitruvian Principles & Works of Andrea Palladio.

NEOCLASSICISM

Revival of a classical style (Greek and Roman orders as decorative motifs).



Simple, strongly geometric composition Shallow relieves of facades Styles for US Government Buildings.

NEOCLASSICISM

Is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

NEO-CLASSICAL

Architectural Character of Victor Emmanuel II Monument, Rome.

ST. GEORGE'S HALL, LIVERPOOL

Most Magnificent Neo-Classical monuments in Britain;


Designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes.

UNITED STATES CAPITOL, WASHINGTON D.C.

Architect was William Thornton.

NEO-CLASSICAL

MONTICELLO

Neoclassicism with American materials Architect: Thomas Jefferson.

PARIS OPERA HOUSE

BY CHARLES GARNIER.


NEO-BAROQUE, NEOCLASSIC.

THE CONSERVATORY, CARLTON HOUSE, LONDON

Cast-Iron for Structural and decorative purpose. Architect is Thomas Hopper.

NEO-CLASSICAL

NEO-CLASSICAL

GUISEPPE SACCONI

Architect of Victor Emmanuel II Monument, Rome.

NEO-CLASSICAL

COLONIAL STYLE

The Renaissance movement reached the easier colonies through the GEORGIAN STYLE by the way of England; 
Simple, Symmetrical AR; Combined Refined Delicate
Mouldings With Slender, Graceful Columns.     

The Renaissance movement reached the easier colonies through the GEORGIAN STYLE by the way of England;



Simple, Symmetrical Architecture; Combined Refined Delicate Mouldings With Slender, Graceful Columns.

GREEK REVIVAL

Remained the accepted Style of Churches in the U.S. into the 20th Century.



Greek Forms & Details – Pleasing to Eye but Illogical in Function; only an Architecture of Facade Arrangements.



Pedimented Gable; Symmetrical Shape; Heavy Cornice; Wide, Plain Frieze; Bold, Simple Moldings.

GREEK REVIVAL

A neoclassical style of architecture inspired by and incorporating features of Greek temples from the 5th century BC, popular in the US and Europe in the first half of the 19th century.

GREEK REVIVAL

Architectural Character of the Altes Museum, Copenhagen.

STRAWBERRY HILL
BY          HORACE WALPOLE    
BY HORACE WALPOLE

GOTHIC REVIVAL

People began to tire the Greek style formality, thus they turned into the informality of Gothic.



Style Adaptation was not successful in capturing the spirit of the style which resulted to hard and cold structures which also lacked flexible quality of European buildings.

GOTHIC REVIVAL

Architectural style that drew its inspiration from medieval architecture and competed with the Neoclassical revivals in the United States and Great Britain.

WESTMINSTER NEW PALACE, LONDON

House of Parliament Designed by Sir Charles Barry;


Non - Classical Design by Agustus Pugin.

WESTMINSTER NEW PALACE, LONDON

First Major public Building of Gothic Revival.

GOTHIC REVIVAL

Houses of Parliaments.




Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.

BIG BEN

Clock tower of Westminster New Palace.

NEO-GOTHIC

Architectural style of the Votivkirche, Vienna.


VOTIVKIRCHE, VIENNA

BY HEINRICH VON FRESTEL.

BY HEINRICH VON FRESTEL.

GOTHIC REVIVAL

ST. GILES, CHEADLE, STAFFS

Designed by Pugin.

GOTHIC REVIVAL

IMRE STEINDL

Architect of Hungarian Parliament, Budapest.

GOTHIC REVIVAL & RENAISSANCE REVIVAL

THE CATHEDRAL, GUILDFORD

Designed by Sir Edward Maufe.

VICTORIAN STYLE

70’s & 80’s Brought romance through the medium of architecture & interior decoration.



Beauty with meaningless turrets, gables & jigsaw ornaments & resulted with no structural sense.



Was exemplified by the so-called “EAST LAKE STYLE” & THE VICTORIAN GOTHIC.

CRYSTAL PALACE, LONDON

One of the most remarkable building in 19th Century Britain under Victorian Period - free of any traditional precent. House the Great Exhibition of 1851, erected in hyde Park, moved to Sydenham in 1852 to 1854; Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton.

VICTORIAN STYLE

EARLY VICTORIAN

Period in Britain year 1830 to 1850 A.D. Renaissance and Gothic Revival in Europe. Structural use of Iron.

HIGH VICTORIAN

Period in Britain year 1830 to 1850 A.D. A bold reinterpretation of Gothic for the modern age. Employs polychromy, strong patterns, juxtapositions of materials.

LATE VICTORIAN

An architecture that reflects the staid, family-centered mindset of Queen Victoria's reign, which extended from 1837-1901. A heavy style, the Victorian touch runs to red brick, imposing, fortress-like facades, and an absence of beauty for its own sake.

THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, OXFORD

Landmark of High Victorian Gothic; Designed by Benjamin Woodward.

BENJAMIN WOODWARD

Architect of The University Museum, Oxford.

TUDOR REVIVAL

Simple, Rustic & the less impressive aspects
of Tudor Architecture, imitating medieval cottages or country houses. 
More Modest Characteristics; Gave Tudor Revival
Its More Striking Effects.      

Simple, Rustic & the less impressive aspects of Tudor Architecture, imitating medieval cottages or country houses.



More Modest Characteristics;


Gave it Its More Striking Effects.

TUDOR REVIVAL

- Steeply Pitched Roofs;
High Chimneys, Jettied (Overhanging); Often Thatched Roofs.
- Half-Timbering Often Infilled
With Herringbone Brickwork.

- First Floors Above Pillared Porches. 

- Tall Mullioned Windows or Dormer
Windows ...

- Steeply Pitched Roofs; High Chimneys, Jettied (Overhanging); Often Thatched Roofs


- Half-Timbering Often Infilled With Herringbone Brickwork.


- First Floors Above Pillared Porches.


- Tall Mullioned Windows or Dormer Windows Supported By Consoles.

ROMANESQUE REVIVAL
RICHARDSONIAN ROMANESQUE 
RICHARDSONIAN ROMANESQUE

ROMANESQUE REVIVAL

- Bold & Massive Details;
Features More Simplified Arches & Windows than their historic counterparts.  
- Style was popularized by Henry
Hobson Richardson; Richardson is one of "the recognized Trinity of American Architecture"

Along with L...

- Bold & Massive Details; Features More Simplified Arches & Windows than their historic counterparts.



- Style was popularized by Henry Hobson Richardson.


- Richardson is one of "the recognized Trinity of American Architecture" Along with Louis Sullivan & Frank Lloyd Wright.

NEO-ROMANESQUE

Architectural style of the Stock Exchange, Amsterdam by HP Berlage.

RENAISSANCE REVIVAL

Neo-Renaissance style was in
reality an eclectic blending of past styles.  
Due of its diversity; an Architecture style to have existed in so many forms, yet
still common to so many countries.  

Great
Staircases Of CHATEAUX OF BLOIS & CH...

This style was in reality an eclectic blending of past styles.



Due of its diversity; an Architecture style to have existed in so many forms, yet still common to so many countries.



Great Staircases Of CHATEAUX OF BLOIS & CHAMBORD – Most widely copied feature of Renaissance Architecture.

NEO-RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

RENAISSANCE REVIVAL

Architectural Character of Dresden Opera by Gottfried Semper.

PAUL WALLOT

The Architect of Reichstag, Berlin (Renovated by Norman Foster).

RENAISSANCE REVIVAL

CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT

Beaux-Art eclecticism Mc Millan Plan: National Mall in Washington.



Urban planning by DANIEL BURNHAM; Characterized by Monumentally-Placed Buildings,Grand Promenades, Spacious Plazas, & Classical Sculpture.

MCMILLAN PLAN

Comprehensive plan of
Washington DC’s Monumental Core & Park System.  
Has National Mall; Lincoln Memorial (bottom); Washington Monument
(center); & US Capitol (top).      

Comprehensive plan of Washington DCs Monumental Core & Park System.



Has National Mall; Lincoln Memorial (bottom); Washington Monument (center); & US Capitol (top).

ECLECTICISM

Age of revivals.

ART NOUVEAU

Architectural character of Post Savings Bank, Vienna by Otto Wagner.

ART NOUVEAU

A decorative style of art, popular in Europe and America from the 1880s to the 1930s. This style is usually characterized by flowing lines, flat shapes, and vines and flowers. "Arts and Crafts Movement".

LE MODERN STYLE

Art Nouveau version in France.

JUGENDSTIL

"Youth Style" German Art Nouveau - Birth of Modernist Design.

SEZESSION

Art Noveau in Austria.

STILE LIBERTY

Art Nouveau version in Italy.

MODERNISMO

Art Nouveau version in Spain.

ARTE NOVA

Art Nouveau version in Portugal.

Art Nouveau version in Portugal.

VICTOR HORTA

ARCHITECT OF HOTEL TASSEL (BRUSSEL).

ART NOUVEAU

ANTONI GAUDI

ARCHITECT OF SAGRADA FAMILIA (BARCELONA).

ART NOUVEAU

JOSEPH HOFFMAN

ARCHITECT OF SANATORIUM PURKERSDORF (VIENNA).

ART NOUVEAU

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH

ARCHITECT OF GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART (GLASGOW).

ART NOUVEAU

YILDIZ, TURKEY

BY RAIMONDO D'ARONCO

ART NOUVEAU

NEO-BYZANTINE

Architectural style of Sacre-Coeur, Paris.

SACRE COEUR, PARIS

BY PAUL ABADIE & LUCIEN MAGNE


FRENCH NEO BAROQUE

Architectural Character of the Opera House, Cologne.

ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT

Emerged from the attempt to reform design and decoration in mid-19th century Britain. It was a reaction against a perceived decline in standards that the reformers associated with machinery and factory production.

AUGUSTE PERRET

Pioneered the use of "beton brut".

CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, BRISTOL

Egyptian Character: Pylons.


Designed by Isambard Brunel.

SWANSEA GUILDHALL

Designed by Sir Percy Thomas.

PALM HOUSE, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, KEW

Designed by Decimus Burton and Richard Turner.

ROCOCO

Commonly known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe l'oeil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

BAROQUE

Is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the mid-18th century. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo and Neoclassical styles.

EIFFEL TOWER

Design by Gustave Eiffel.

ROBIE HOUSE, CHICAGO

BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT.

PRAIRIE SCHOOL

STATE CAPITOL, VIRGINIA

By Thomas Jefferson & Charles Louis Clerisseau.

PALLADIAN ARCHITECTURE

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

BY WILLIAM LAMB, RICHMOND HAROLD SHREVE & ARTHUR LOOMIS HARMON.

ART DECO

CASA MILA

By Antoni Gaudi.

MODERNISME

OEIL DE BOEUF

Means “eye of the steer,” and, in the French chateau of Versailles. It is a small window.

Means “eye of the steer,” and, in the French chateau of Versailles. It is a small window.

JAMES HOBAN

Architect of the White House, Washington, DC.

Architect of the White House, Washington, DC.

FEDERAL STYLE

In America, late 18th century architecture and early 19th century building designs were typically based on Roman or Greek architecture.

In America, late 18th century architecture and early 19th century building designs were typically based on Roman or Greek architecture.