ARCHST 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: United States Territorial Acquisitions, Arc De Triomphe, Piazza Navona
21 Aug 2016
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Baroque 1600-1800s: baroqu art- forceful, directional, overwhelming, renaissance art- subtle, sense of scale, baroque interiors- gilded interiors, decorative (church of gesu, piazza navona- grand impact, illusion of infinite space, ideas of. City desighn: diagonla boulevards, sweeping vistas, placing of monumental buildings, statues atvarious points, standardization of architecture for stare controlled uniformity. Pope sixtus"s plan for rome: diagonal boulevards connected important churches and ancient monuments razing down existing neighborhoods to implement plan. Louis xiv"s versailles: boulevards leading to his place, ceremonial and political pretense. Baroque planning in paris: arc de triumph, grand arch. Philadelphia: william penn influenced by proposals to rebuild london based on richards newcourts plan very similar to william penns plan for philadelphia. Savannah: square/commerce/ residences, no streets passes through square, through streets run parallel, the savannah unit can be repeated and the system remains intact, experience of being in a square very different to being in a boulevard.
