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Renaissance To Modern
MENNERISM- PRACTICES WHICH HAD NO ROMAN PRECEDENT WERE INTERSEPTED WITH THE USUAL
BUILDINGS
FLORENCE
MICHELANGELO- LED THE PROTO BAROQUE BREAKAWAY FROM ACADEMIC FORMALISM WITH DESIGN
ROME
TEMPIETTO IN SAN PIETRO- SITE WHERE ST PETER WAS MARTYRED, PERFECT ARCHITECTURAL GEM BY DONATO
BRAMANTE
S. PETER ROME- MOST IMPORTANT BUILDING OF THE PERIOD WITH CATHEDRAL, PIAZZA AND VATICAN, FORMS
A WORLD-FAMOUS GROUP
120 YEARS- OUTCOME OF THE WORKS OF MANY ARCHITECTS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE POPE
FRA GIOCONDO
ANTONIO DA SANGALLO
MICHELANGELO- PRESENT BUILDING OWES MOST OF ITS OUTSTANDING FEATURES TO HIMGREEK CROSS PLAN
GIACOMO DELLA PORTA
VENICE
FRANCE
LOUIS XV PHASE- EXTERNALLY SIMPLE AND LESS CLASSICALY PURE
LOUIS XVI PHASE- RETURN TO SOBER CLASSICISM AUSTERE AND REFINED EXTERIORS
PALAISE DE LOUVRE, PARIS- TOGETHER WITH TUILERES, CONSTITUTED ONE OF THE MOST IMPOSING
PALACESIN EUROPE
PETIT TRIANON, VERSAILES- BY JA GABRIEL FOR LOUIS XV, ONE OF THE MOST SUPERB PIECES OF DOMESTIC
ARCHITECTURE OF THE CENTURY
ST. GERVAIS, PARIS- BY SALOMON DE BROSSE
ENGLAND
HENRY VIII- KING AND SUPREME HEAD OF ENGLISH CHURCH, DISSOLVED MONASTERIES AND OLD THEIR
ESTATES
RELIGION- PROTESTANTISM
PERIODS:
TUDOR ARCHITECTURE- TRANSITION STYLE WITH GOTHIC FEATURES AND RENAISSANCE DETAIL
PLATERESQUE- RICH AND POETIC STYLE, FROM THE MINUTENESS OF DETAIL AND SIMILARITY TO SILVERSMITHS
WORK, EXTREMELY FLORID AND DECORATIVE
CASSA DE LAS CONCHAS, SALAMANCA- FAÇADE COVERED WITH CARVED SCALLOP SHELLS
REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE
ECCLECTICISM- TASTE FOR EXOTIC FORMS COMBINING NATIVE AND FOREIGN STYLES
CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, BRISTOL- ISMABARD BRUNEL HAS A PYLONS OF EGTYPTIAN CHARACTER
ST. GEORGES HALL, LIVERPOOL- HARVEY LONSDALE HERMES, MOST MAGNIFICENT NEO- CLASSICAL
MONUMENT IN BRITAIN
WESTMINSTER NEW PALACE (HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT), LONDON- BY SIR CHARLES BARRY, NON NEO CLASSICAL
DESIGN GOTHIC DETAIL BY PUGIN
PALM HOUS, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW- BY DECIMUS BURTON AND RICHARD TURNER
CRYSTAL PALACE, LONDON- SIR JOSEPH PAXTON, ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BUILDINGS IN 19 TH CENTURY
BRITAIN OUSED THE GREAT EXHIBITION
RED HOUSE, BEXLEY HEAT, KENT- BY PHILIP WEBB FOR WILLIAM MORRIS
THE TRAIN SHED, ST PANCRAS STATION, LONDON- BY ENGR. WH BARLOW, LARGEST AND MOST
SPECTACULAROF THE HIGH VICTORIAN PERIOD
JEAN NICOLAS LOUIS DURAND- REPITITIVE USE OF STANDARD BAYS IN PLAN AND ELEVATION, TO BE ENRICHED
PALAU GUELL, BARCELONA- GAUDI, SEEMS TO PRESAGE ART NOVEAU IN ITS FORMS
NO.6 RUE PAUL-EMILE JANSON(HOTEL TASSEL), BRUSSELS- VICTORIA HORTA- FIRST COMPLETE NOVEAU ART
BUILDING
CHURCH OF SACRE-COEUR, PARIS- PAUL ABADIE, NEO BYZANTINE
THREE PERIODS
SECOND ECLECTIC PHASE: GOTHIC REVIVAL BY HH RICHARDSON, LOUIS SULLIVAN, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
DOMESTIC BUILDINGS
THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON DC- OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT BY JAMES HOBAN, IRISH
ARCHITECT AND ENGLISH PALLADIAN STYLE
RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS:
THE STATE CAPITOL, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA- THOMAS JEFFERSON, FIRST NEO CLASSICAL MONUMENT BASED ON
MAISON CAREE, NIMES.
UNITED STATES CAPITOL,WASHINGTON DC- SEAT OF US GOVERNMENT, ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN BUILDINGS
THE SCHELSINGER MAYER STORE- LOUIS SULLIVAN , SUGGESTION OF ART NOVEAU STYLE
MODERN ARCHITECTURE
ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT- AWAKENED A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE AMONG ARCHITECTS
ART NOVEAU WAS SHORT LIVED
BAUHAUS- FORM OF TRAINING INTENDED TO RELATE ART AND ARCHITECTURE TO TECHNOLOGY AND THE
PRACTICAL NEEDS OF MODERN LIFE
PALAZZETTO DELLO SPORT FOR 1960 ROME OLYMPICS- NERVI AND VITELLOZZI