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8/7/2019 Presentation_19th Century Architecture

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Contents

Contents

1. Victorian Architecture?

2. Italianate and Greek Revival3. Gothic Revival

4. New Technologies

5. An Example Nearby6. Sources


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Victorian Architecture?Victorian Architecture?- There is not THE Victorian style

- Like many Victorian novels (Vanity Fair) also

Victorian architecture is set in the past- This century takes what it likes from many

sources; mixes, matches, develops and distortsthem

- Featured styles: Egyptian, Byzantine,Romanesque, Venetian Gothic, Muslim Indian,Italianate, Industrial, Second Empire, Queen Anne


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Italianate and Greek RevivalItalianate and Greek Revival- Flourishing from the mid 1800s to 1885

- Inspired by Renaissance structures

- Is said to have been Queen Victorias favorite

style

- Principle of Palladian symmetry

- Americans adored Greek Revival because of itsassociations with democracy

- Used mostly for official (representative) buildings


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ExamplesExamples


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ExamplesExamples


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Gothic RevivalGothic Revival- Neo-Gothic from the mid-18th century on

- gingerbread house-style in distinction to

classical styles (Medievalism vs. Palladianism)

- Probably more Gothic architecture was built in the

19th and 20th century than originally ever built

- Also a movement in literature: Gothic fiction(Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto)

- Nationalism: Early English (tallest buildings)


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ExamplesExamples


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ExamplesExamples


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New TechnologiesNew Technologies- The entirely new use of cast iron (fireproof)

- Four feet long sheets of glass (dropping of tax)

- Joseph Paxtons Chatsworth Conservatory

and Crystal Palace


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- The new way of building takes only a week of

detailed planning

- And only six months of construction(prefabricated units)

- The late 20th century skyscraper has in these

buildings its most distinguished ancestor


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An Example NearbyAn Example Nearby- Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristols symbol

- In 1929, Brunels design won a competition (a

stone bridge was too expensive)- Brunel died in 1859, the bridge was

completed in 1864 only

- Long reputation as a suicide spot

(direct line to The Samaritans)

- The last Concorde flight ever flewover the bridge in 2003


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SourcesSourcesAnonymous. Architecture of the United Kingdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_the_United_Kingdom. 23.11.2006.

Anonymous. Joseph Paxton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paxton. 23.11.2006.

Anonymous. Victorian architecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_architecture. 23.11.2006.

Anonymous. Clifton Suspension Bridge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge.23.11.2006.

Anonymous. Architecture. http://www.victorianstation.com/vicarch.html. 23.11.2006.

Anonymous. Victorian Style. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 200104. www.bartleby.com/65/. http://www.bartleby.com/65/vi/Victorian.html. 23.11.2006

Donebauer, Peter et al. History of Architecture.http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=1549&HistoryID=ab27.23.11.2006.

Hunt, Lana J.. A century of Architecture. www.angelfire.com/ar3/townevictorian/arch.html.23.11.2006.

Landow, George P.. Victorian Doubt and Victorian Architecture.http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/victorian/art/architecture/arch1.html. 23.11.2006

Ross, David. Gothic Revival Architecture. http://www.britainexpress.com/architecture/gothic-revival.htm. 23.11.2006.

Wainwright, Clive. The Architect and the Decorative Arts.http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/victorian/art/architecture/cw.html. 23.11.2006.


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Questions?Questions?

Thanks for listening.


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