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Temple of Fortuna Virilis 2nd century BCE Rome, Italy
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Baths of Caracalla 212-16 Rome, Italy
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Baths of Caracalla 212-16 Rome, Italy |
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Parthenon from Antiquities of Athens (1762) ARTIST: Stuart and Revett |
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“The Round Tower,” from the Prisons series 1744 ARTIST: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Frontispiece, An Essay on Architecture 1753 ARTIST: Marc-Antoine Laugier
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Palazzo Farnese 1530-89 Rome, Italy |
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Charterhouse Sacristy 1727-64 Granada, Spain |
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Ste.-Geneviève (Pantheon) 1757-92 ARCH: Jacques-Germain Soufflot Paris, France
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Ste.-Geneviève (Pantheon) 1757-92 ARCH: Jacques-Germain Soufflot Paris, France |
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Ste.-Geneviève (Pantheon) 1757-92 ARCH: Jacques-Germain Soufflot Paris, France |
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Ste.-Geneviève (Pantheon) 1757-92 ARCH: Jacques-Germain Soufflot Paris, France |
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Ste.-Geneviève (Pantheon) 1757-92 ARCH: Jacques-Germain Soufflot Paris, France |
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Ste.-Geneviève (Pantheon) 1757-92 ARCH: Jacques-Germain Soufflot Paris, France |
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Pantheon, ca 120, Rome, ITA.
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Colosseum, 70-80, Rome, ITA |
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Rene Descartes, 1596-1650, philosophy, rationality |
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John Locke, 1632-1704, political philosophy, empiricism |
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Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, physics, math, science |
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Gottfried Leibniz, 1646-1716, math, logic, metaphysics, calculus |
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Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton 1784 ARCH: Étienne-Louis Boullée. (Never built) |
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Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton 1784 ARCH: Étienne-Louis Boullée. (Never built) |
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Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton 1784 ARCH: Étienne-Louis Boullée. (Never built) |
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National Library of France project ARCH: Etienne-Louis Boullèe 1728-99 |
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Stadium Project ARCH: Etienne-Louis Boullèe 1728-99 |
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Municipal Palace & Palace of Justice Projects ARCH: Etienne-Louis Boullèe 1728-99 |
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Municipal Palace & Palace of Justice Projects ARCH: Etienne-Louis Boullèe 1728-99 |
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Customs Tollhouses 1770s ARCH: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Paris, France |
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Barrière de la Villette 1775 ARCH: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Paris, France
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Barrière de la Villette 1775 ARCH: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Paris, France |
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Royal Saltworks 1775-79 ARCH: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Arc-et-Senans, France
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Royal Saltworks 1775-79 ARCH: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Arc-et-Senans, France |
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Royal Saltworks 1775-79 ARCH: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Arc-et-Senans, France |
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Royal Saltworks 1775-79 ARCH: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Arc-et-Senans, France |
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Royal Saltworks 1775-79 ARCH: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux Arc-et-Senans, France |
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Model town of Chaux 1775-1789 ARCH: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
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Chaux Cannon Foundry project 1785-89 ARCH: Ledoux. |
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Chaux Cannon Foundry project 1785-89 ARCH: Ledoux. |
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Chaux House and Workshop of the Coopers project 1785-89 ARCH: Ledoux |
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Chaux House and Workshop of the Coopers project 1785-89 ARCH: Ledoux |
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Oikéma, Chaux 1785-89 ARCH: Ledoux
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Oikéma, Chaux 1785-89 ARCH: Ledoux |
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Panaretheon, Chaux 1785-89 ARCH: Ledoux |
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Jean-Jacques Lequeu 1757-1826
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Stable on a Cool Meadow project ca 1790 ARCH: Jean-Jacques Lequeu |
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Gate to a hunting lodge project ARCH: Jean-Jacques Lequeu 1757-182?
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi |
-argued for the virtuosity, inventiveness, and drama of Roman architecture -suggested the sublime through dark spaces, dark gloom, images of pain |
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sublime |
feelings based on emotion |
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Marc-Antoine Laugier |
-argued for a return to the simple structural logic of Greek architecture -hated the "fake" french baroque architecture of pilasters -basic laws in nature -disapproved of structural elements that have been made decorative
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Laugier " |
"It is the same in architecture as in all other arts: its principles are founded on simple nature, and nature's process clearly indicates its rules" |
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Soufflot |
-buildings embody some of Laugier's ideas of modern churches -primarily structural design -a building should be rational, clear, bright |
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Laugier" |
"I have tried to find, if in building our churches in the good style of classical architecture, there is not a way to give them an elevation and a lightness equal to those of our most beautiful Gothic churches" |
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Etienne-Louis Boullee |
-more abstract and primal language -basic geometric forms have the greatest effect -Guided by love of Newton and his work in science and math |
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Boulee' " |
"O Newton! With the range of your intelligence and the sublime nature of your genius, you have defined the shape of the Earth; I have conceived the idea of enveloping you in your own discovery" -Cenotaph |
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Architecture Parlante |
architecture that expressed its meanings through structure and form rather than through symbols |
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Arc-et-Senans |
type of mine in which crystals are boiled to create salt |
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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux |
-primordial principles of design -building tells you its purpose -"Letters of his alphabet"= cube, cylinder, sphere |
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Ledoux " |
"Having lured the impetuous and fickle youth, the Oikima confronts them with the starkest depravation; but the feeling of degradation of man rekindles sleeping virtue, and leads man to the altar of virtuous Hymen, who embraces and crowns him" |
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Jean-Jacques Lequeu |
-sex obsessed advocate of architecture parlante who sought an architecture that touched all of the senses |