- Romanesque architecture is divided into two - appearance of walls, piers , arches and openings,
8. ROMANESQUE STYLE
periods: the “First Romanesque” style and the
“Romanesque” style. The First Romanesque
style developed in the north of Italy, parts of
France, and the Iberian Peninsula in the
10th century prior to the later influence of
the Abbey of Cluny.
- Romanesque architecture was the first
distinctive style to spread across Europe
since the Roman Empire.
- Started from about the mid-11th century
- Gothic Architecture is a pan-European style
9. GOTHIC STYLE that lasted between the mid 12th Century and
the 16th Century.
- The renaissance period lies between 1400 to
10. RENAISSANCE STYLE 1600.
- A return to Classical ideas ushered an "age
of awakening" in Italy, France, and England.
- During the Renaissance era architects and
builders were inspired by the carefully
proportioned buildings of ancient Greece
and Rome.
- The three key Renaissance architects were
Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti,
and Andrea Palladio.
- As in the Classical world, Renaissance
architecture was characterised by the
harmony between human and mathematical
proportions
- The architecture of the United States
11. ARCHITECTURE IN U.S
demonstrates a broad variety of
architectural styles and built forms over
the country's history of over two centuries
of independence and former Spanish and
British rule
- COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE
- ROMANTIC ARCHITECTURE
- VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE
- ART NOUVEAU
- CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
- PRAIRIE STYLE ARCHITECTURE
- ART DECO STYLE
- Pisa cathedral
arcades , columns , vaults , and roofs and in the - Leaning tower of Pisa
materials used to create these features.
- the pairing of two arched windows or arcade - Canterbury cathedral
openings separated by a pillar or colonette and The cathedral is one of the
often set within a larger arch. oldest and most famous
- Columns were often used in Romanesque Christian structures of
Vaults of Canterbury
architecture, but varied in building material and Romanesque Architecture
cathedral
decorative style. located in Canterbury, Kent,
- wooden roofs consisting of a simple truss , tie England. Norman is the term
beam, or king post form used to describe Romanesque in Leaning tower of
England. Pisa
- It is usually characterized as a style of masonry Notre-Dame de Reims, France
building that makes heavy use of cavernous spaces The kings of France were
with walls broken up by overlaid tracery. crowned in this cathedral,
constructed during the 13th
- Typical architectural features include: century on the site of an old Notre-Dame de
1. Rib vaults church dating from the year Reims, France
2. Flying buttresses 400
3. Pointed Gothic arches Basilica of Saint Denis, France
4. Stained glass windows were also common Noted as the first Gothic
cathedral (it was completed in
1144), this church holds the Basilica of
graves for all but three of the Saint Denis,
French monarchs France
- Renaissance architects also incorporated columns St Peter’s Basilica
and pilasters, using the Roman orders of columns Designed by Alberti, Raphael,
(Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite) as Bramante, Michelangelo, and
models. Bernini, St Peter’s Basilica was
- External Renaissance walls were generally of perhaps the most renowned
highly finished ashlar masonry, laid in straight work of Renaissance
courses . architecture. St peter’s
- The corners of buildings were often emphasized by basilica
rusticated quoins. Tempietto del Bramante
- The Renaissance style eschewed the complex The tiny, round temple by
proportional systems and irregular profiles of Donato Bramante sits inside the
Gothic structures, and placed emphasis on courtyard of the church of San
symmetry , proportion, geometry, and regularity of Pietro in Montorio in Rome, on
parts. the spot where St Peter was
- Key architectural elements of Renaissance crucified
buildings included columns, pilasters, pediments, Tempietto del
entablatures, arches, and domes. Bramante
- art nouveau - Dynamic, undulating, and flowing, Empire State Building – art deco
Empire state building
with curved 'whiplash' lines which characterized Chrysler Building – art deco
much of Art Nouveau movement. Taliesin – prairie school
Chrysler building
- contemporary architecture - Exposed functional
building elements, such as ground-to-ceiling plate
glass windows, and smooth facades. - The style Taliesin
was molded from modern materials--concrete,
glass, and steel.
- prairie style architecture - Boxy and symmetrical
or low slung and asymmetrical. - Roofs are low-
pitched, with wide eaves.
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