ARCH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ancient Greek Temple, Barry Bergdoll, Architectural Theory
6 Oct 2015
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Barry bergdoll neoclassicism:science, archeology, and the doctrine of progress architecture and the enlightenment: mid-eighteenth century, antiquity was upheld as a standard for architecture. Neoclassicism was an investigation of bases of architectural form and meaning, not a revival or critical new departure. Obsession with with origins motivates two contradictory paths to investigate: Philosophical, which was exemplified by abbe laugier. the other was historical investigation. In france building production was slowed down because of war, prestigious national academy of architecture gained a new architectural theory . Laugier later established the greek temple as the first example of a natural law of structural reasoning. laugier: by imitating the natural process, art was born. and let us keep the simple and the natural, it is the only road to beauty.
