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3. ROMANTICISM
CONTEMPORARY
ARCHITECTURE
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3. Romanticism

18th -19th century

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Primacy of Emotion

Reason of Science

Religious Orthodoxy

Reaction against I n d u s t r i a l R e vo l u t i o n

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3.2 Age of Enlightenment

Origin ??? 1687-1701

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Primacy of Reason
Political agenda
French Revolution
Questioning
What is Enlightenment? Religious
Dare to be wise Orthodoxy
Immanuel Kant
Mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation of
the human consciousness from an immature state of
ignorance and error.

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3.2 Age of Enlightenment

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Germany
Primacy of Reason
France

Anti- church, reached deep into the

Anti-government middle classes

England Russia

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3.2 Age of Enlightenment

Europe France,

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
John Locke (1632–1704)
Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)
Issac Newton (1643–1727)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Encyclopedia
by
Diderot (1713–1784);
Voltaire (1694–1778)
Rousseau (1712–1778)
Montesquieu (1689–1755)

To Colonies

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3.2 Age of Enlightenment

Salon University
Debate
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Coffee House
Socialize
Public
Sphere
Reason the rise of the modern nation
state and the rise of capitalism
Egalitarian

Common Concern

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3.2 Characteristics of
Romanticism

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Interest in
Strong Awe
common
Senses Horror
man and
Emotions Terror
childhood
Feelings

Celebration
Originality Importance
of
vs of
Individual
Derivative Imagination

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Romanticism embodied a new and restless spirit,

seeking violently to burst through old and cramping
forms, a nervous preoccupation with perpetually
changing inner states of consciousness, a longing
for the unbounded and the indefinable, for
perpetual movement and change, an effort to
return to the forgotten sources of life, a passionate
effort at self-assertion both individual and
collective, a search after means of expressing an
unappeasable yearning for unattainable goals

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3.2 Romanticism in Arts

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The Lady Of Shallot (1888)
John W illiam Waterhouse

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3.2 Romanticism in Arts

Wanderer
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above the

Sea of

Fog

Caspar

David

Friedrich

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3.2 Romanticism in Arts

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The Ninth Wave
Ivan Konstantinovitch Ajvazovsky

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

3. ROMANTICISM

Historicism

Eclecticism

Picturesque

B e a u x A r t s S t yl e

S h i n g l e S t yl e

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

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Memorial to Issac Newton, Etienne Louis Boullee

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

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Barriere de Villette, Paris, Charles N. Ledoux

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

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M o n t i c el l o C h a r l o t tevi l l e , Virgi na, T. J e f f e r s o n

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

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The Atles Museum, Berlin, Karl Friedrich

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

3. ROMANTICISM
Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole with W. Robinson and others

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

3. ROMANTICISM

The Royal Pavillion, Brighton, John Nash

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

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Baltimore Cathedral, Baltimore, Benjamin Latrobe

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

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The House of Parliament, London

Sir Charles Barry & A.N. Welby Pugin

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The Opera, Paris, Charles Garnier

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Ecole des Beaux Arts, France

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

Richardsonian

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Romanasque

Tr i n i t y C h u r c h , B o s t o n
H.H. Richardson

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Richardsonian
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Romanasque

Marshall Field’s Wholesale Store

H.H. Richardson

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• emphasizes clear, strong picturesque massing,

round-headed "Romanesque" arches, often
springing from clusters of short squat
columns, recessed entrances, richly
varied rustication, blank stretches of walling
contrasting with bands of windows, and
cylindrical towers with conical caps embedded
in the walling

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

Philip Spearman Webb

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Henry H. Richardson
Louis Henry Sullivan
Bernard Ralph Maybeck
Frank Lloyd Wright
Eliel Saarinen direct descendant - symbolism,
which intensified/ refined the
Eero Saarinen romantic characteristics of
subjectivity, imagination, and
strange/ dreamlike imagery.

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

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Red House,London, Philip Webb

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

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Helsinki Railway Station

Eliel Saarinen

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

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Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

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3.2 Romanticism in Architecture

3. ROMANTICISM

Madeliene, Paris Maison Carree, Nimes-

Roman Temple

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