ARCH 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ideal City, Altes Museum, Auguste Perret
10 Mar 2016
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Catechism: oral instrucion, a set of formal quesions put as a test polemic, an aggressive atack on or refutaion of the opinions or principles of another, an aggressive controversialist verisimilitude, something depicing realism/appearing true. Palladianism: style 1715 to 1760, italian architect andrea palladio (1508-1580), palladian exteriors were plain and based on rules of proporion. Magnum opus: a great work ; especially : the greatest achievement of an artist or writer. Neoclassicism emerged from: a great increase in man"s control over nature, e. g. Road and canal works: change in human consciousness, humanist disciplines of the enlightenment, architects realized that their styles were ephermal and thereby sought the true style", brits moved from over decorated baroque to palladianism in 1750"s. Le roy & winckelmann: believe greek architecture was the origin or true style. Piranesi (scary: italian architect/engraver, believe etruscan and roman architecture was beter, analyzing decaying structures led his artwork to the sublime. Culturalawareness led him to quesion the vitruvian proporions.
