RENAISSANCE

LENOTRES AND VERSAILLES

 LOUIS XIV THE SUN KING
The reign of Frances Louis XIV (1638-1718), known
as the Sun King, lasted for 72 years, longer than that
of any other known European sovereign.
In that time, he transformed the monarchy, ushered
in a golden age of art and literature, presided over a
dazzling royal court at Versailles, annexed key
territories and established his country as the
dominant European power.
 VERSAILLES
La Ntre was highly original in his design. His
invention is one of recombination and
transformation, frequently accomplished
through a jump in scale with the simplest of
elements .
The gardens at versailles exhibit the
quintessential traits of the french formal
garden:symmetry , grandeur and grand
expanse.
 VERSAILLES
These garden is rectilinear , architectural ,
unified by recurrent geometry and relentless
axial symmetry.
The broad alleys crossing at right angles or
radiating outwards in a patte doie pattern
mark the gardens structure.
Le Ntre swept the alleys to the very horizon,
appropriating and controlling all the visible
landscape.
VERSAILLES
 PIAZZA DEL POPOLO
It is large urban square in rome.
The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the
aurelian walls.
This was the starting point of the via flaminia
and the important route to north .
Before the age of railroads , it was the first
view of rome upon arrival.
It was a place for public execution .
 PIAZZA DEL POPOLO
The layout of the piazza was designed in neo
classical style.
It is incorporated the vendure of trees as an
essential element.
Looking from the north three streets branch
out from the piazza into the city, forming the
so-called trident.
 PIAZZA DEL POPOLO
Close scrutiny of the twin
churches reveals that
they are not mere copies
of one another, as they
would have been in
a Neoclassicalproject, but
vary in their details,
offering variety within
their symmetrical balance
in Baroque fashion.
 PIAZZA DEL POPOLO
The central street, now
known as the Via del
Corso, was the ancient
Via Lata, and to the north
it links with the ancient
Roman road, the Via
Flaminia, beyond the city
gate and southwards, to
the Piazza Venezia
the Capitol and
the forum.
 PIAZZA DEL POPOLO
In his urbanistic project, Valadier constructed the
matching palazzi that provide a frame for the
scenography of the twin churches and hold down
two corners of his composition.
He positioned a third palazzo to face these and
matched a low structure screening the flank of Santa
Maria del Popolo, with its fine Early Renaissance
faade, together holding down the two northern
corners.
PIAZZA DEL POPOLO
 RENAISSANCE

REBUILDING LONDON
 GREAT PLAGUE 1665-1666

The earliest cases of disease occurred in the spring of

1665 in a parish outside the city walls called St Giles-
in-the-Fields. The death rate began to rise during the
hot summer months and peaked in September when
7,165 Londoners died in one week.
Rats carried the fleas that caused the plague. They
were attracted by city streets filled with rubbish and
waste, especially in the poorest areas.
 GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
From the 2nd to 5th September 1666 London
city was burned down by the Great Fire of
London. Four fifths of London city were
destroyed.
The Great Fire destroyed 400 streets with
13.200 houses over an area of 1,3 square
kilometres.
 GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
In the year 1667 the citizens of London
cleared rubble from the burnt area of London
and decided on new building regulations. But
at the end of the year only 150 houses were
built.
The new houses were built with bricks instead
of wood. Some streets like the Fleet Street
were widened and some new streets were
built.
 GREAT FIRE OF LONDON

Beside the streets pavements were built. The

overhangs of floors to the floor below were
avoided.
The Londoners of this time said that London
was not only the finest, but also the healthiest
city in the world.
CHRISTOPHER WREN
Others dreamed of a
rational,navigable city
London nailed down to
a precise,uniform grid .
The vision he lay out
saw a number of large
pizzas linked in
geometric manner by
wide,long boulevards.
 CHRISTOPHER WREN
The north of the river thames would have
become a large open quay and the river fleet
would have been transformed into a canal.