Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Art and architecture Historical events
1815 1815 Hundred Days; Napoleon escapes Irom
Elba but deleated by allies at Waterloo
1816 Elgin Marbles brought to British 1816 Peterloo Massacre, Manchester
Museum
Schinkel, Neue Wache, Unterden
Linden, Berlin (Guard House)
1817 Thomas Rickman, An Attemptto
Discriminate the Styles of English
Architecture
1818 Parliament approves one mili ion pounds
to lund 600 new churches
1819 Macadamized roads stimulate coach
travel
1820 1820 Taylor and Nodier begin publishing 1820 Abortive uprisings in Portugal, Sicily,
Voyagespittoresques et romantiques Germany, and Spain
dans I'ancienne France George IV (1820-30) King in Britain
1821 Greek War of Independence begins
1822 George IV's state visit to Edinburgh
1823 Smirke, British Museum, and Schinkel,
Altes Museum
Nash, Park Village East, London
1825 Schinkel, Charlottenhol, Sanssouci, 1825 Ludwig I ascends the throne in Bavaria,
Potsdam Nicholas I in Russia
1826 Wilkins selected to design London
University
1828 Henri Labrouste's study 01 Paestum 1828 Hegel, Lectures on Aesthetics at Berlin
rocks the French Academy 01 Art University
Heinrich Hübsch, In what style should Saint-Simonian Predications, Paris
we build?
1829 Charles Barry, Travellers Club, Pall Mall, 1829 Catholic emancipation in Britain
London, inaugurates neo-Renaissance Fourier, Le nouveau monde industriel et
sociétaire
1830 1830 Hittorff announces his theories 01 1830 Revolution in Paris issues in a period 01
polychromy on Greek temples in Sicily, liberal rule under Louis-Philippe
Leo von Klenze begins Walhalla, near (1830-48); Belgian independence
Regensburg Otto of Bavaria on the throne 01 Greece
First railway line, Liverpool-Manchester
1832 Schinkel, Bauakademie, Berlin (Iinished 1832 Great Reform Bill, England
1835)
1833 Félix Duban appointed to remodel tcole
des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Rohault de Fleury, glass and iron
greenhouses, Paris Jardin des Plantes
1834 Wilkins's National Gallery, London 1834 British Poor Law Amendment
Victor Considerant publishes his theory
01 the Phalanstery
1835 Pugin, St Marie's Grange, near Salisbury 1835 Municipal Corporations Act, Britain
1836 Pugin, Contrasts
Pugin and Barry selected as architects 01
Houses 01 Parliament, London
1837 Klenze, Hermitage Museum, St 1837 Victoria Queen 01 Great Britain and
Petersburg Ireland (1837-1901)
Creation by Guizot 01 Commission on
Historie Monuments, Paris
1838 Labrouste, Bibliothéque Ste-Geneviéve 1838 The People's Charter drawn up in
(1838-50) London by Chartists
1839 Pugin, St Giles, Cheadle; Wild, Christ 1839 Auguste Comte, Cours de Philosophie
Church Streatham Positiviste
Bindesbsll, Thorwaldsen Museum, Daguerre announces invention 01
Copenhagen(1839-48) photography
1840 1840 Viollet-Ie-Duc begins restoration 01 La
Madeleine, Vézelay
1841 Pugin, True Principies of Christian or 1841 Declaration that French rail system
Pointed Architecture should connect Paris to all borders
1842 Law lor compulsory expropriation 01
unhealthy dwell ings. England
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1882 Soria y Mata, The Linear City 1882 Ferry Law in France requiring universal
Competition lor Hungarian Parliament pri mary ed ucation
Building, Budapest Triple Alliance: Germany,
Competition lor Victor Emmanuel Austrian-Hungary,ltaly
Monument, Rome
1883 William Morris declares himsell a 1883 Social insurance in Germany
socialist
Competition lor the Palace 01 Justice,
Rome
1884 Third British Relorm Act
1885 Nénot, Sorbonne, Paris (1885-91) 1885 Motor car (Benz) and motorcycle
(Daimler)
1887 Hoffmann & Dybwad, National Courts, 1887 Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and
l.eipzig (1887-95) Tralalgar Square Riots (Bloody Sunday)
Automatic telephone
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Glossary
Note: This glossary contains technical and basílica refers to the long oblong buildings of
stylistic terms specifically referred to in the the ancient Romans used for public
texto References to other terms within the assembly, often surraunded by aisles and
glossary appear in boldo For a more complete galleries and featuring an apse opposite the
guide to architectural terminology, with entrance. Once adapted by the Early
helpful illustrations, readers should consult Christians forworship, the basilica's apse
either J ohn Fleming, Hugh Honour, and was now moved to one of the short ends to
Nikolaus Pevsner, A Dictionary of Architecture create the characteristic directional form of
(Penguin Books, '966) or Cyril Harris, the Christian church interior.
HistoricArchitecture Sourcebook (New York: bay a vertical division or module of a building,
McGraw- Hill, Inc., '977)' often marked either by fenestration, the
Classical orders (columns or pilasters), or a
amphitheatre the elliptical or circular space single arch of an arcade. In vaulted
of the ancient Greek and Roman theatre, architecture a bay refers to a unit of vaulting
generally formed of rising tiers of seats. By including the vertical elevations and the
extension, any semi circular open space. ceiling.
architecture parlante (French, 'speaking buildingtype refers to a specific purpose or
architecture') the notion that a building's function of a building and its related form or
forms, either component volumes or physiognomy. Temples, churches, palaces,
decorative embellishments, so closely and amphitheatres are building types that
portray aspects of the function that the date back to ancient times; while railway
building communicates its purpose, and stations, public museums, and department
thus meaning, with the clarity of spoken sto res are characteristic new building types
language. Although generallyused to refer of modern times.
to the search for symbolic forms in relation caryatid a column in the form of a sculpted
to new building types by the French female figure, of which the most famous
architects Boullée, Ledoux, and their ancient example is the Erechtheum on the
followers in the '780s and '790s, it seems the Athenian acrapolis. May also be used as an
term was only coined, and initially in engaged figure.
derision, in the ,840S. castellated refers to a building whose roof
art nouveau a loose cluster of movements in line bears the crenellations typically
the ,890S that sought to derive a vocabulary associated with medieval castles.
for the arts in the most inclusive sense, fram catenary an elliptically shaped arch which
graphic arts and ceramics to architecture, gains its strength fram its precise geometric
thraugh a turn to an abstract language of formo The catenary can be generated
form derived from the whiplash line of mathematically, but its form derives fram
nature first explored in the ,880s by the catenary curve, formed by a flexible cord
Mackmurdo in England and in the early hung between two points of a porch. This is
,890S by Obrist in Germany and Victor inverted, or flipped, to form the arch.
Harta in Brussels. In contrast to the cella the principal chamber of a Classical
curvilinear modes explored in France, temple housing the cult image. Generally
Belgium, and Germany, a rectilinear mode windowless, the cella was franted by the
of abstraction was explored by Mackintosh portico.
in Scotland and Hoffmann in Vienna which circus in Roman architecture a long oblong
shared the anti-academic, anti-historicist buildingwith rounded ends, and often tiered
philosophy of the earlier curvilinear seating, used for racing events. In the
decorative style even while exploring an eighteenth century the type was taken over
entirely different formal vocabulary. in ranges ofhousing and town planning.
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coffered refers to the interior decoration of a forum (pl. fora) in Roman town planning a
ceilingor a vaultwith a regular grid of precinct around a temple or group of
sunken square or polygonal ornamental temples, often bordered by open colonnades
panels. The classic example is to be found in or arcades. By the eighteenth century the
the Roman Pantheon, which served as a forum connoted not simply the physical
model for many Renaissance and eighteenth form of the Roman open space but the
and nineteenth-century adaptations. public life that took place there.
coliseum the arcaded, multi-storey, open-air frieze properly speaking, the middle of the
arena devised by the Romans for gladiatorial three component mouldings of a Classical
events; by extension any enclosed elliptical entablature. Often ornamented with a motif
building or urban space. of garlands or interlaced floral ornaments
colonette a diminutive column either in known as rinceaux, the term frieze is thus
height or in width, generally used to describe often also used for any running moulding
the columnar elements of medieval denoting the separation of floors on a facade
architectural design which depart entirely or crowning the ornamental treatment of
from the system of proportions which interior walls in room decoration.
governed the dimensions and dimensional Gallican of or related to France, used in
relations ofClassical columns. church history to refer to the theory whereby
colonnade a row of columns carrying an the French church was an autonomous
entablature, generally made up of equally authority, independent of papal or Roman
spaced units. authority because ofits own antiquity in
Corinthian one of the three orders of ancient Gaul.
columns devised by the Greeks, the Gothick a deliberately antiquarian spelling to
Corinthian is characterized by its elegant, refer to the eighteenth century's
elaborate capital of acanthus leaves and its romanticized, even picturesque freedom in
tall proportions in comparison with the reviving the forms ofGothic architecture for
squatter Doric or Ionic orders. modern buildings. Often Gothick also
cornice the crowning element of a Classical connotes the associations of the Gothic in
entablature or the crowning projecting set of eighteenth-century literature with gloom,
mouldings along the top of a building or wall. mystery, and the obscure.
crypt a chamber orvault beneath the main Graeco-Gothic the search for a synthesis of
floor of a church, often, but not always, the essence of the two great systems of
subterranean. In the Christian tradition western architecture, the Greek and the
crypts are particularly associated with the Gothic, in which Classical columns carry
cult of relics. vaults of medievallightness and technical
cryptoporticus in Roman architecture, an achievement. The Graeco-Gothicwas a
enclosed gallery formed of walls punctured particularly progressive elemen t of
with openings rather than colon nades. In Neoclassical aesthetics, especially in France.
the eighteenth century the term was applied ha-ha a ditch with a wall on its inner side
to any covered subterranean passage, as in below ground level, separating the
Kent's design of the gardens at Rousham. ornamental part of a house's garden from its
dégagement French term for a free-standing adjacent agricultural fields, which prevented
element, either a componenr of a building livestock from approaching the house but,
which stands free of a larger structure (i.e. a unlike a fence or garden wall, remained
column as opposed to a pilas ter ), or a invisible from a distance, thus creating the
building as a free-standing object in a city. illusion of a seamless unity of garden and
Doric the first of the orders in both Greek prospecto The origins of the term have long
and Roman architecture, the Doric order is been disputed and subject to numerous
characterized by the simplicity ofits forms, theories.
its simple 'pillow-like' capital, and its sturdy hallchurch a church in which the side aisles
proportions. The Greek Doric order was are of the same height as the central vessel or
baseless and generally fluted and generally of nave.
squatter proportions, height to width, than intrados the inner curve or underside of an
theRoman. arch, also called soffit.
engaged an element that is physically part of Ionic an order of columns in both Greek and
the wall, from which it might project in Roman architecture characterized by its
relief, as in an engaged column which is voluted capital and its elegant proportions.
locked into the masonry structure of the wall Mannerist used to describe principally
behind. Italian architecture of the sixteenth century
entablature .the spanning element of a in which Classical motifs were used often in
Classical order, consisting generally of three contradiction or exaggeration of their
principal parts+-the architrave, frieze, and original meaning; by extension applied to
cornice. any style in which a self-conscious,
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sometimes even ironic attitude towards the Classical or Neoelassical architecture. The
decorative elements and component parts term is also applied to the use of a similar
can be detected. In Italian architecture motif above windows or doors, where it may
Mannerism is generally associated with the take on any of a variety offorms, from the
work ofMichelangelo, Giulio Romano, and triangular to the semicircular.
their followers. Perpendicular a term used to refer to a late
Neoclassicism the revival ofinterest in the phase ofEnglish Gothic architecture,
architecture ofGreece and Rome in the e.1330-50, characterized by emphasis 00
decades after '750 led only rarely to literal straight horizontals and verticals, slender
copying of ancient buildings; rather, the dividing piers, and regular patterns of
movement began as a reaction againstwhat fenestration. Fao vaults were much favoured,
were seen as the excesses oflate Baroque and as in King's College Chapel, Cambridge and
Rococo architecture. Theorists and the chapel ofHenry VII at Westmioster
designers argued that in returning to a strict Abbey.
adherence to Greek principIes theywere pier a solid masonry support, either free-
instilling a respect for nature and reason in standing or clustered as in medieval design,
architecture, in parallel with the reform of all i.e. compound pier.
human institutions. pilaster a shallow relief pier generally treated
orderís) in Classical architecture an order is a as a fiat column in relief 00 a wall surface.
system of design which comprises the U nlike columns, these often serve no
elements of a column and its related structural purpose but are used for rhythm or
entablature as well as a range of acceptable to articulate a space and/or frame elements,
proportions. The three principal orders of particularly openings. An essential elemeot
the Greeks were the Doric ,lonie, and of Classical Roman and Renaissance
Corinthian, towhich the Romans added architectural design, the pilaster was widely
the Tuscan and the Composite. In the questioned in rigorist Neoclassical theory,
Renaissance and later the possibility of a notably by Laugier and Lodoli, but still used
sixth order, often a national order, was often widely in Neoelassical designo
discussed. At least from the time of polychromy literally multi-coloured, refers to
Vitruvius the different orders were also the use of coloured surfaces in buildings,
associated with different characters of either through the appliqué of differeot
buildings and often even supposed to be materials or through applied paint 00 stucco.
gendered-the Doric connoting portico a porch generally formed by a
masculinity, the Ionic held to be feminine. In colonnade ofClassical columns supporting
addition theywere arranged in a hierarchical an entablature and pedimento
sequence of elegance and majesty from the propylaeum in Greek architecture an
Doric ro the Corinthian. entrance gate formed by ao opeo coloooade,
Palladian, Palladianism a style derived from generally giving entrance to a precioct, such
the work of the sixteenth-century Italian as the Acropolis at Athens.
architect Andrea Palladio, whose Four Books proscenium in modern theatre desigo the
onArehiteeturewas one of the mostwidely space between the curtain and the orchestra
emulated source-books for architecture in defined by a monumental frame or arch
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. which marks the separation betweeo
Palladianism was firsr programmatically put audience and spectacle.
forth as an architectural reform in Britain Residenz German term referring to the
after '730 in the cirele ofLord Burlington principal palace of a ruler; by extension, to
and Colin Campbell, who looked back as the capital city or principal seat.
much to theltalian master as they did to his Romanticism the term had its origins in
firsr English disciple, lnigo Jones. For many literature in the seventeenth centuryand
art historians the English Palladian Revival, referred to a revival ofinterest io medieval
or Neo-Palladianism, is the firstphase of romances, but by the end of the eighteeoth
eighteenth-century Neoclassicism. century it had emerged in various guises in
parterre in a theatre the area of the audience the visual arts aswell as in literature with
immediately in front of the stage, often on a diverse and even contradictory teoets. As
gradient, as opposed to seats arranged in earlyas '924 Arthur Lovejoywarned that ooe
tiers or balconies above the stage. While in could only speakof'romanticisms' io the
the Elizabethan tradition the parterre area plural. In any case, the movement that knew
was given over to standing, in the French its heyday from e.'780 to e.1830had at its heart
theatre of the eighteenth century the a reaction to Enlightenment reason and thus
parterre was seated and quickly took on an appeal to emotion, sentimeot, aod
higher elass distinctions. subjectivity.It broughtwith it an embrace of
pediment the triangular gable end of a roof, relative truths, national specificities, and ao
generally above a portico of columns in interest io a variety of styles, both fortheir
GLOSSARY 295
national and exotic appeal. Tuscan an order of columns introduced by
scagliola a material composed of plaster and the Romans and thought to be derived
marble chips or other coloured matter to ultimately from the Etruscans. The simplest
irnitate marble. of the Roman orders, it was unfluted, carried
spandrel the area of solid material adjacent to a simple capital closely related to the Doric,
an arch, or the area between two arches or and was governed by a sturdy aesthetic of
twovaults. proportional relations.
stoa in Greek architecture a free-standing undercroft a vaulted room, sometimes
colonnade, generaliy composed of an underground, below the main space of a
unbroken rearwall and an open colon nade church, chapel, or palace hall (cf crypt).
facing a public area such as the agora.
trabeation the use of a system of post-and-
lintel construction, or more specifically in
Greek architecture of the rectilinear
structural and visual principle of columnar
architecture.
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Further Reading
NB: This bibliography comprises principally architecture in the second half of the
English language titles, Foreign language titles nineteenth century, and from Sigfried
have been included only when they can be used Giedion's Space, Time andArchitecture
by the beginning student to great advantage for (Cambridge, Mass., originally published '94';
their illustrations or documentary material or 5th rey. and enlarged edn, 1967), still usefulfor
when they are of such seminal importance that its summary of technological developments, a
they cannot be ignored. theme expanded with great originality in his
There are few surveys of architectural Mechanization Takes Gommand, (New York,
production that span the period and the 1948), which addresses an issue that the scope
continental scope of this volume. For, as of the present volume could not encompass.
evoked in the Introduction, most Technological determinants are combined
considerations of the late eighteenth and with a distinctly Marxist reading of
nineteenth centurywere, until quite recently, developments in town planning in the first
preoccupied with revealing the roots of volume ofLeonardo Benevolo's History of
twentieth-century modernismo The most ModernArchitecture (London, '97')' No less
prominent exception is Robin Middleton and polemical is Alberto Perez-Gomez's
David Watkin, Neoclassicaland Nineteenth Architecture and the Crisis ofModern Society
GenturyArchitecture(New York, '98,), which (Cambridge, Mass., 1983),whose central
should be used in the original hardback edition thesis of rationalization in architecture as a
that alone contains the excellent biographical progressive erosion ofits metaphysical and
dictionary of major architects discussed and a expressive capacities remains a stimulating and
rich bibliographical guide to monographic challenging argumento
literature before '977. Francois Loyer's Otherwise the best accounts of the
Architecture ofthe Industria/Age, q89-I9I4 period are more in-depth surveys of either a
(New York, 1983)is a highly personal and particular country or movement. For Britain
episodic account rich in unusual pictorial one should consultJohn Summerson,
material and brisdingwith insights, while Architecture in Britain, I530-I830
Claude Mignot'sArchitecture ofthe Nineteenth (Harmondsworth, 6th edn, I977) and the
Gentury in Europe (New York, 1984) is a excellent survey on VictorianArchitecture by
reliable and comprehensive survey- its Roger Dixon and Stefan Muthesius
organization of much ofits material according (London, I978). In addition to the three-
to building types is afine complement to Sir volume Histoire de l'architecturefranfaise (vol.
Nikolaus Pevsner's dry but useful History of 2-From the Renaissance to the Revolution,
Building Types (Princeton, I976) and to the byjean -Marie Pero use de Montclos, Paris,
nineteenth-century chapters ofHenry- 1989, vol. 3-From the Revolution to the
Russell Hitchcock's Architecture: Nineteenth Present, by Francois Loyer, Paris, 1999), one
and Twentieth Genturies in the Pelican History should consult Allan Braham, TheArchitecture
of Art (Harmondsworth, '958, most recently ofthe Frencb En/ightenment (London, 1980)
updated 1977).Their overt polemical agendas and Wend von Kalnein, Architecture in France
notwithstanding, there is still much to be in the Eighteenth Gentury (New Haven, 1995).
obtained from the accounts ofPevsner in There is no adequate account ofFrench
Pioneers ofModern Design (London, 1936), nineteenth-century architecture in English,
particularly useful for its account of decorative although histories of the Academy and several
arts reform and ofinternational recognition of key buildings are considered in Arthur
British accomplishments in domestic Drexler (ed.), TheArchitecture ofthe Eco/e des
Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, Naissance de la clinique, New York, 1973).
Enlightenment and European Socialism Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punisb: tbe
(Cambridge, Mass., 1989). birth oftbe prison (trans. of Suruetller et punir,
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Chapter 3: Experimental Architecture Hipple, WalterJohn, The Beautifut, tbe
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Boullée, Etienne-Louis,An Essay onArt Century BritishAesthetic Theory (Carbondale,
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Visionary Architecture (London, 1976). Hunt,John Dixon, Cardens and tbe
Burke, Sir Edmund, A Philosophical Enquiry Picturesque: studtes in the history oflandscape
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(London.xojo). in a point of a view (London, '927, revised
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Abramson, Daniel, 'Money's Architecture: Morachiello, Paolo and Georges Teyssot,
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following individuals and institutions who Photo A.F. Kersting, London.
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illustrations listed below. for the church of'Ste-Genevieve, Paris.
Archives ationales, Paris (N.IV Seine/rocj,
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Temple ofNeptune, Paestum, 'l64. church, Paris, '764. From Histoire de la
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. disposition et desformes dijJérentes que
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from Les ruines des plus beaux London. (b) Plan. Courtesy the National
monuments de la Grece. (Paris, 'lS8). British Trust.
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(In8). Photo Conway Library, Courtauld Louis xv (roday de la Concorde) as inaugu-
Institute of Art, London. rated in 'l63 to the designs of the royal
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projected church of Ste-Geneviéve, Paris, Carnavalet, Paris/Phototheque des Musées de
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