HISTORY French Rationalism and English Picturesque

French rayionalism and  the english picturesque

Apogy of baroque
Luquid space
Trapped on a decorativebsurface

Claude perrault E facade of Louvre Paris
Columns are beginjng to suggest that rhwy hold building up

Gothic cathedral - most imp arch for france
Reconcile gothic, antiquity, classical language - project of perault

Marc antoije laugier - essai sur l architecture
-aech is derived from an understandibg if nature
Soufflot - pantheon paris
Looks classical but has a grid, combo of columns and arches so a comb of gothic with classical
It is supposed to be an engineered solition to space
It doesnt stand up so it needs iron reinforcements

Rondelet develops response by creating hystory of arch based on HoW buildings are built

Violle le duc - brilliance on how things are done
Reconstructed notre dame
He likes glass iron prefb / open mind!!
Early 19th c, he vad visions of le corbusier.
Relational understanding if how to produce buildings
Recknstructed gothibg using new techniques


Durand
He looks at arch and reduces every style to a grid. all atch can be reduced to grid. - utopian projevts at the time that attwnpt to construct architecture that emcompas people and place at that time

They have a machine like quality and a symbol

Ledoux actually nuulds his utopian projects
Project for barriers. Arch as machine for extracting currency out of people whi entered paris
French revokution took them down
Negative utopia that wa realised but not liked by people

Choisy - histoire de l architecture
Constructed out of axonometrica that capture arch completely
Something that emerges grom plan and works up


The english picturesque

Reaction to purpose of garden and experience derived from establishment of an empire and derived from going away and stealing other people s stuff

Chiswick house lord blabla
Lieks palladio makes his house the same but GARDEN is interesting
Axial ordering of garden cut coincidental experience. You encounter pieces of arch if antiquity with no coherence. Ruined little elementa constructed to be looked at.
To catch our eye and acts as i cudent within the labdscape. Refers to roman architecture that englishman saw in apintings
Arch becomes elements isolated wothin natural nadscape highly constructed so ir t appeares incidental.
Creating endless series of shapes for lanscape garden

Clumping if trees - kent
Si that they become a point within the view and a way of framing the view.
It is YOu that cibstructes landscape upon your experience of the landscape. We are all kings in the landscape.

People new to money and independent. Construction a landscape for theor leisure and discourse.

Piranesi - artist attractive for english archutects because of how he depicts ruination of architevture in paintings. He captures a notion of time. Important fir chambers and soane
Piranesi - clue to how to conciwvw arch as narrative. Development of arch over time
Arch must submit to mature forces of time and erosion.

British empire recovers other cultures. Such as sharawadgi - from exotic lands if china

Outside paris - garden chamb

Book: wether architecture - best response for architecture would be to make arch respond to weather, decay, nature and we should reciver estethic pronciple of the picturesque