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Bon Marche
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architect = Louis-Charles Boileau. New arch type due to Urbanization = department store. Early origins in covered galleries. Elevates shopping to the level of social ritual or ceremony. New materials where advantageous or apprpriate.
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New arch. type
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All Saints Church
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architect = Butterfield
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Midland Grand Hotel
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architect = Gilbert Scott
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Bibliotheque Ste. Genevieve
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architect = Labrouste. New arch type = public library. Use of new materials where considered appropriate and structurally advantageous.
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New arch type
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Beaux arts
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may mean period style, a school, an attitude toward the past, or a process, that is, a way of approaching design problems and problem solving
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A term
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Soane House
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architect = John Soane. Seeks the underlying ordering systems, the balance and order of the class. arch. system (facade).Classical Historicism.
Interior different. Use of classical details produces the classical equiv. of the picturesque. Int. detail = nat. scenery. Chng in lvl; use of mirrors; varied lighting. Heating systems: fireplaces/central heating. Underwent continual alteration |
Another variation of class. histor.
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Bank of England Stock Office
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architect = John Soane. Public bank - changing due to changing demographics. Roman/Greek arch. suggest ideas of a bank. Dependability; continuity; predictability. Exemplifies Soane's interest in new technologies and mat'ls
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Roman/Greek
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Saltworks and Chaux, ideal city
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architect = Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Social consciousness of the architect. "Arch must be asso w/ politics and the soc. cond., and must lead the way to a new and better world"
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Not much to say, just a quote
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Monument to Newton
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architect = Etienne-Louis Boullee. The works of Boulle and Ledoux rep. another aspect of C.H: Finding a moralizing flavor in the underlying principles or abstract geometries of Classicism. Romantic belief in the power of these pure geometrical forms to "move the soul." Visionary utopian perception of Classicism as a "symbolic language" that speaks to the soul.
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Another variation of C.H. Utopia
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Engraving of an "ancient mausoleum"
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architect = Piranesi. reflects a creative, imaginary vision of Classical arch. w/ correctly depicted detail. Romantic, idealized, dramatic
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Three words to describe it
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Chiswick House
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architect = Lord Burlington and William Kent. Neo Palladianism/C.H. Participated in grand tour
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Neo something
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Van Burghs own house
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architect = van burgh. medieval historicism; change in taste; romantic use of medieval details
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medieval something
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Blenheim Palace
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architect = van burgh and hawksmoor. big, bulky, baroque; assemblege of parts
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3 B's
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Wurtzburg Palace
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architect = balthasar neuman, tiepolo (ceiling paintings), grandiose scale (baroque?), elab. fanciful decoration (rococo). false marble. imperial staircase. rooms en fillade
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Ceiling...both forms...stairs?
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Hotel de Soubise, Salon de la Princesse
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decorated by Germain Boffrand, paintings by Charles Joseph Natoire. Rococo decoration, no dep. on classical vocab elements. INTIMATE, SUPERFICIAL. MIRRORS.
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National Archives nowadays...no architect listed
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City of Paris
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new stuff = boulevard, avenue. boulevards follow city wall lines, avenue = street lined with trees leading toward bldg or focal point.
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streets, roads
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Chair of St. Peter
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architect = bernini. actual reliquary for the throne of peter. theatrical use of existing window as part of composition.
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Reliquary...throne
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Baldicchino, St. Peter's
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architect = bernini. marks tomb of peter. ref. to barberini patronage (great PR). Stresses martyrial Focal Point of bldg.
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tomb
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Piazza, St. Peters
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architect = bernini. 2 free standing colonnades which were intended to unify the disparate elements of the piazza
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two.......
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Santa Susanna
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architect = Carlo Maderno. II Gesu Formula; pulled up tighter; facade aesthetic - unrelated to church behind it - stage set piece - act of entering extended.
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Il Gesu
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Eiffel Tower
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architect = Eiffel. Use of new mat'ls where considered appropriate. Importance of worlds affairs as showplaces for technology. Prefab of mass produced parts. Form of tower determined by structural considerations.
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Mass production
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