England
Single persons head of building project designers;
Consistent branding/style
Banqueting House — Inigo Jones under King James!
Palladian proportions
Uninterestedin Doric columns
Stacking lonic and Corinthian Vitruvius-tke
‘Alternatingroundedand pointed window pediments
‘Michelangelo-tike
Perfectgeometries squares)—newto England
Sheldonian Theatre — Christopher Ween under King Charles
Temple front, arcade
Lantern
Roman theatre precedentshape
Invents roof truss configuration; appearance of rope
hholding back (painted) open sky to align w/ precedent but,
respond to environment
St.Paul Christopher Wren under James I
No grand piazzas to set churches apart= creation of
spiresto set churches apartwith less space
St Peter’sis precedent: dome flanked by towers,
temple front
Classical language, concealed gothie behavior
Palladian proportions
Blenheim Palace —John Vanbrugh & Nicholas Hawksmoor
focJohn Churchill
Largescale
Use of multiplying a shape
Elements expanded, doubled, curved, more sculptural
Palladian proportions; perfect geometries; pulling inspiration
‘from anywhere useful and atering/inventing where needed
tofit environment
Both
Classical language
witha more
dramatic & poetic
‘expression
columns,
Pediments, temple
fronts, domes
‘taking parts from
what's dassic and
respectedand
‘manipulating/addi
nginto something
Italy
St Peter's Square — Gian Lorenzo Berniniunder Pope
‘oval, ellipse, trapezoid shapes
transitional space of great movement that reaches out
into the city
jt, Andre al Quirinale -Gian Lorenzo Bernini
underPope Alexander
“rippling” steps, oval pian ~ movement
Use of natural (heavenly) light rom hidden windows
‘San Cetlo~ Francesco Borrominiunder
Charles i
Oval pian
Odd shapes ~ hexagons, octagons, crosses in
dome
‘Moverentand wall shape “undulates”
Unusual shaped plan ~ wiangle with ccs on the
Similar movement and undulation to San Carlo
‘Trying “new” shapes (not perfect squaresand
‘drdles); movement; natural light