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30 Cards in this Set
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Rene Descartes
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Body vs. Mind
"I think therefore I am." |
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John Locke
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We derive all our ideas form our experiences.
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Baroque gardens
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Perspective views, issue of infinity, picturesque.
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Marc-Antoine Laugier
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"primitive hut", seeking principles in an age of lack of principles.
"There is only one way of doing things right." |
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Debate between Jaque-Germain and Soufflot and Pierre Patte on the dimentions of the piers at St. Genevieve
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Mathematical formulas vs. Geometrical rules
Mechanical theory vs. statics of everyday life Ideal calculations vs. personal experience |
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Jaques-Francios Blondel
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Six volume COURS on academic approach to architecture. First universal encyclopedia on architecture. Style should be chosen relative to function.
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Nicholas Le Camus de Mezieres
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THE GENIUS OF ARCHITECTURE -or- THE ANALOGY OF THAT ART WITHIN OUR SENSATION. "Character" of architecture; art of pleasing; the primacy of "feeling;" architect's taste; harmony is only accessible to the genius
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Edmund Burke
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Idea of "sublime": without a stong impression, nothing can be sublime; darkness is more productive of sublime than light.
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Etienne Louis Boullee
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The inquiry into the essential elements of bodies; the mysterious and magic effects of the dim and veiled light. (VISIONARY ARCHITECT)
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux
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His ideal city: bring together under a common roof those tastes and feelings that honor man; the ideas relating to the proper physiognomy. (VISIONARY ARCHITECT)
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Jean Jacques Lequeu
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The mirrored self; erotic symbolic order; the works as a snare for the eye. (VISIONARY ARCHITECT)
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Giambattista Vico
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Wrote PRINCIPLES OF A NEW SCIENCE (1725): Rejects Enlightenment and advances theory on cyclical historical development; recounting (interpretation) as a guide to truth
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Carlo Lodoli
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Proper use and nature of materials; pragmatic ideas anticipating the modern motto: form follows function
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Engraved "fantasies": speculative composition based on detailed studies of Roman antiques; anti-Vitruvian eclectic forms; "use makes law"; influence to England
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Chinoiserie
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fantasy toward other cultures and follies transplanted from exotic architecture and gardens
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"Anglo Chinese gardens"
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from a French perspective
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Cultural encounter through garden creation
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The Jesuit contribution
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Jacque-Nicholas-Louis Durand
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His book PRECIS OF THE LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE (1802: Summary of Essential point): Defines architecture as the "art of composing"; irrelevance of any transcendental justification; Utilitarianism: circle better than square because of less peremiter; rejected traditional Vitruvian explanation of anthropomorphic origin of the classic orders; only the form determined by the laws of mechanics and utility is essential
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Durand's techings at Ecole Polytechnique
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Education for new scientiic and specialized architecture; drawings as an instrument for precisely representing a building
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Ecole de Beaux Arts de Paris
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Education of classicism which overthrew the tradition (19th century)
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Violett-le Duc (France)
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His book, LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE (1863): seeking a "new" architecture based on "Gothic" structural logic; architecture is an ethnic art; truthful construction and planning; "imporantance of method"
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Agustus W Pugih (England)
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Writings on authentic Gothic (1840's)
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Gothic revivals in England
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1850's - the nationalistic impulse
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Charles Barry
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House of Parliament (1840-1852)(London)
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Phillip Webb and William Morris
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Red House (1859), Kent, England; Arts and crafts movement
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Romantic sensation
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in Neoclassicism
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John Soane (England, 1937)
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Frequent study of Vitruvius and Le Camus' THE GENEIUS OF ARCHITECTURE; "costume of architecture"; his great architectural library; belief in public architecture as expression of civic virtue
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Gottfried Semper (Germany)
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Friends with richard Wagner (musician) and Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher); His book THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE (1851): Hearth, roof, enclosure, mound; art of weaving; concept of "dressing"
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Neo-Palladianism in England
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Lord Burlington's Chiswick Villa
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Thomas Jefferson
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Education in languages and law; politics: nine-year diplomatic mission (1784) in France; traveled extensively in France and England; book collection of French and English gardens and architecture; ideal university ideas; house intended to reflect natural order and betterment of society
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