ARC 234 Lecture Notes - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Kedleston Hall, Syon House
4 May 2014
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No place to study architecture as a profession; self motivated profession. Robert adam traveled europe; trying to establish himself as the british architect. Charles-louis clerisseau and robert adam work together. Kedleston hall by adam temple front on formal fa ade: garden side has a much more syncopated rhythm, utilizing architectural movement rise and fall, advanced and recess to add to the picturesque to the architecture . Interior has an entrance room chilly white with blacks and greys: statues placed like follies in a garden. Anti-room has a burst of color-high contrast to entrance. Last room leads into other rooms using different color, ornament, etc: thought about the gothic in terms of its abstract embodiment of the sublime. Interior reverses what happens outside; during day inside experiences night. Growth of cities was a such that there were too many people to be buried; cemeteries move to the edges or outside city limits.
