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Il Gesu Rome
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Arch = Giacomo della Porta. Stories overlap; layers; process of entry; takes pattern of Sta. Maria Novella, updates, gives it 3D
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Sta Maria Novella...
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St. Peter's Rome
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arch = Carlo Maderno. 4 reasons to add nave: 1) pagan assoc. of the centr. plan; 2) nothing of old nave should be left uncovered; 3) need for benedictional loggia; 4) emph. on processions; facade = too low and lumpy; orig. 2 tower design - couldnt cuz of foundation; cupolus provided lighted aisles
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Nave; cupolus; facade; towers?
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Coronaro Chapel
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arch = Bernini. Burial chapel; "curve-countercurve" (oval shape). Hidden light src. window above altar. skel's in marble floor. it. baroque rel. of arch/sculp/painting
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Curve...light...floor
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Vaux le Vicomte
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arch = le vau; artist = le brun; landscape arch = le notre; marked end of 1st phase of Fr. Baroque arch.; house -process of entry; proj. pavil's; 2 facades; garden; suite style - landscape - wing and pavillion; grande vista; - library - painting/sculpture/arch.
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Wings...1st collaboration...process....Vista...
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East Facade Louvre
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arch = le vau, artist = le brun; perrault = early plans rej. by Bernini. Tech aspects more innovative than aesth. Metal reinf. where structurally adventagous. Imperial in design.
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Technical...aesthetics...Bernini?
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Versailles
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Rebuilding by Le Vau; Finished by Mansart: Entry/Exit as process (alless/axes); Grand vista; chapel - last in long line of 2 story chapels; Ceremonial aspects are CRITICAL: stage setting for ceremony of state = king: architecture in support of the monarchy. Painting to glorify image of son god for Louis XIV: Colbert becomes fin. min. and estab. french acad. system.
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started off with _____ and finsihed by _____....ceremonial...process...grande..
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Vierzehnheiligen Facade
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arch = balthasar neuman. johann feuchtmayer (stucco work); mult. focal pts. Oval forms imply movement/tension. Ornament eats away at hte clear distinction b/n parts and the clear def. of arch orders. Pilgramage church. Rococo ornament.
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Mult. focal pts..ovals...pilgramage...Rococo
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Saint Pauls Cathedral
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Christopher Wren. Plans constantly changing. Fasc. w/ cent. plan. Clergy wants longitudinal plan; Triple dome - ext. dome = f.p.; middle dome = spts. lantern; inner dome = rel. to vaults - parapet masks buttressing - greek cross
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Plans...dome...
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Strawberry Hill
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Horace Walpole. Medieval Historicism. Picturesque/ Goth. Rococo. GR = decorate surf. Pict. = stim. imag. "studied irreg" Superficial adoption of Goth. motifs. Connected to idea of Grand Tour.
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The Gothic Novel. Superficial...2 systems...GR Pict.
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Stourhead Gardens
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Henry Hoare. Contro. over question of picturesque; beautiful; sublime; grand tour; remembered monuments
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gardens...sensations in viewer...nature
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Osterly Park - Etruscan Room
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Robert Adams - part. in grand tour. C.H. & Class. Rococo. Details surf of walls. Total environments. Planning furniture. Variety of sources: Ruins @ Pompei & Herculaneum
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Sources...details...Historicism...?
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Pantheon (Ste. Genevieve)
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Jacques Germain Soufflot. "Purified" vers of Class. arch. Rationalized. Combine Goth/Greek - Huge windows; INTERIOR space; thin columns - Medieval Plan - Romanesque. Cautious att. toward use of new mat'ls
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C.H...Gothic...new materials?? "purified"
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Royal Brighton Pavilion
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John Nash. For Prince of Wales. Exotic. Oriental. Tied up w/ exp of empire. New Materials used. Fnc = villa suburbana for extended stays. Metal used and disguised
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Exotic...ext. stays...metal...empire
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House of Parliament
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Sir. Charles Barry & AWN Pugin. Gothic hisoticism/Picturesque. Use towers as cooling, ventilation devices. Some tower functional; Pugin thinks gothic only true "christian style" correct for england
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Pugin...style...GH/Pict...twoers..vents?
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British Museum and reading room
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Sir Roberts & Sydney Smirke. New category for pub use: pub. museum/library. Classical. New mat'ls - cast iron/glass. Sydney did the library. Dome on reading room.
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Brothers...C.H. New mat'ls...dome...new category for public
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City of Paris
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Haussmann. 1st total concept. Pub/civic monuments as F.P.'s. Ferroconcrete used in sewers. Ht. restrictions imposed. Built on existing factors (grand axe/croisse/grand vista/blvds). Made paris a mdn city. Improved transportation - streets/nodes/Central Mkts...rec areas...fixed water/sewage
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Ferroconcrete, markets, roads, concept, existing factors, focal points...monuments?
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Paris Opera
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Charles Garnier. "Palace of culture" 3 theatres - pub/stage/set stage - 3 entrances - foot traff./carriage w/ ladies/emperor...ideas to see and be seen; grand galley - stairs (one for women/one for men) - no iron; masonery; concerned w/ appearance not structure
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palace of culture...3 entries...ideas...stairs...appearance/structure?
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Notre-Dame de Paris and VLD
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VLD. Restored ND. Most impressive as a theorist/restorer than architect. Prolific writer. "Form and structure function one and the same thing" Bridge to 19th century
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Form and structure...writer...restorer...
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Crystal Palace
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Joseph Paxton. Mass prod. of parts (9 months to bld). Easy assemb. Cast/wrought iron and glass. Built for worlds fair of 1851
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World Fair. Mass production. Quick/easy assembly. New mat'ls.
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Eiffel Tower
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Eiffel. 1889 World Fair. Mass prod. 1st use of pass. elevators. Tallest iron struct. 21 months. MORRIS KOECHLIN = act. designer. Eiffel builder. 5 mo's to build foundation. Wind = greast prob.
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Wind...builder...designer?...mass prod. 21 mo's...elevators
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