ARC251H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: July Monarchy, Built Environment, Islamic Architecture
Document Summary
Architecture, social renewal, and the healthy body in 19th-century paris. Modernity focuses on large-scale urban renovation of paris (headed by haussman) City sheds it medieval skin, rise of the bourgeoisie and their values. Gender-bending depiction of women"s bodies, contrast with neoclassical statues. Equipment (gymnastic apparatus) initially used in a military environment. Juxtaposition of nature and landscape with equipment. Architecture"s role in transforming health for citizens. Cultural effects were important to architecture that followed this period - ideas of military grandeur that were lost. 1830: july monarchy, following rev. of 1830. Improving and perfecting instruments of life, regeneration of man and through him, all of french society (housing, sexuality, food, clothing) Humans can be bred like animals - evokes social tensions and struggles of the period. Idea that people can be bred to be better (idea of upward mobility brought up by first french. 1852: second empire of france under napoleon iii.
