Chetana Self Financing Course

Sub: History

Assignment No-1

Topic- European Architecture

Group No.-Indhu Kotiyan 124-Hiten Solanki 141

European architecture

CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

The architecture and urbanism of the

Greeks and romans were very different

from those of the Egyptians or Persians in

that civic life gained importance…

Each place had its own nature, set within

a world refracted through myth, thus

temples were sited atop mountains all the

better to touch the heavens…

INFLUENCE OF ROMAN ARCHITECTURE

The Romans conquered the Greek cities in

Italy around three hundred years before Christ

and much of the Western world after that. The

Roman problem of ruler ship involved the unity

of disparity — from Spanish to Greek,

Macedonian to Carthaginian …

Where public participation is increasingly

removed from the concrete performance of

rituals and represented in the decor of the

architecture.

CHANGE IN THE WAY OF THINKING

None of which would have been possible

without the advances of Roman engineering

and construction or the newly found marble

quarries which were the spoils of war;

inventions like the arch and concrete gave a

whole new form to Roman architecture…

As the Romans chose representations of

sanctity over actual sacred spaces to

participate in society, so the communicative

nature of space was opened to human

manipulation…

NEW INFRASTRUCTURE’S

FOR DEVELOPED LIFESTYLE

The changing social climate which demanded

new buildings like the residential block, bigger

hospitals, etc…

General civil construction such as roads and

bridges began to be built….

Inventions like the arch and concrete gave a

whole new form to Roman architecture…

WESTERN AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

Western European architecture in the Early Middle

Ages may be divided into Early Christian and Pre-

Romanesque, including Merovingian, Carolingian,

Ottoman, and Austrian...

Surviving examples of medieval secular architecture

mainly served for defence…

Castles and fortified walls provide the most notable

remaining non-religious examples of medieval

architecture.

THE RISE OF VARIOUS EUROPEAN COLONIAL

EMPIRES

Empire started in 16th

century…

The stylish trend of European

were exported and adopted by

various countries…

BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE

The period of Mannerism and

Baroque had flavor of anxiety

over meaning and representation

After which even Science and

Philosophy had separated

Mathematics'…

REST OF CULTURE

Reality of culture changed

the way of thinking through

architecture…

It reached its most extreme

embellished…

THEORIES OF ANDREA PALLADIO

In Late 17th and 18th century the work

of Andrea Palladio were bring for the world

Later it was translated and interpreted

and was adopted by England

His book of one Quattro Libra dell

architecture and pattern book by Colen

Campbell

This Palladian architecture continued

classical in apery

ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNITED STATES

Their search for a new national architecture

commenced…

Mid-18th century tended to be more restrained

decorated and used in authentic classical forms…

To classical ruins as part of the Grand Tour, coupled

with the excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum…

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