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NEO CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE NEO CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid- 18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque neoclassicism in architecture is evocative and picturesque, a recreation of a distant, it is framed within the Romantic sensibility Intellectually Neoclassicism was symptomatic of a desire to return to the perceived "purity" of the arts of Rome, Greek,and renaissance classicism
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NEO CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURENEO CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque
neoclassicism in architecture is evocative and picturesque, a recreation of a distant, it is framed within the Romantic sensibility
Intellectually Neoclassicism was symptomatic of a desire to return to the perceived "purity" of the arts of Rome, Greek,and renaissance classicism
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ROCOCO
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Background of emergence of neo classical architecture
Architecture of baroque and rococo
Two forces
Technological change
Social change
Architects were Compel to look for new and true style
Expedition to greek and roman cities
Books on ancient monuments
Le roy, piranesi and adams works
Hallucination of ancient forms in new work
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Putteney bridge bath by Robert Adam
Royal Scottish academy Edinburgh by William Henry playfair
Greek Doric style portico
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Elisabethkirche in Berlin
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Altes museum Berlin
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Cathedral of Vilnius (1783), by Laurynas Gucevičius
Prado museum in Madrid by Juan de Villanueva
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LedouxBuilding Should Immediately Communicate Its Functions to Its Viewer
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Boullée
between 1778 and 1788 that Boullée made his biggest impact on architecture.
He developed a distinctive abstract geometric style inspired by Classical forms
Characteristic
removal of all unnecessary ornamentation,
inflating geometric forms to a huge scale
repeating elements such as columns in huge ranges.
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DOCTRINE
Architecture should express its purpose
Cénotaphe a Newton (1784)sphere form of 150 m (500 ft) high embedded in a circular base
structure was never built
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Cénotaphe a Newton (1784)
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his book Architecture, essai sur l'art ("Essay on the Art of Architecture), arguing for an emotionally committed Neoclassicism, was only published in 1953.
Consist of his work from 1778 to 1788, which mostly comprised designs for public buildings on a wholly impractical grand scale.
Fondness for grandoise design - megalomaniac and a visionary
Innovative design ideas – polarity – offsetting opposite design elements
Use of light to evoke divine feeling
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux
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The Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans
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Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans
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French neo classical architect
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Project for the ideal city of Chaux: House of supervisors
