Arch History 2 Final

Question 1

Jacques-Francois Blondel

Answer 1

“radical style”

disposition vs distribution

Question 2

Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières

Answer 2

“The Genius Architecture”: character of architecture/ art of pleasing/ the primacy of feeling

Question 3

Charles Le Brun

Answer 3

physiognomy

Question 4

physiognomy

and who

Answer 4

expression of passions (studying human face) (Brun)

Question 5

“the little house”

Answer 5

shows architecture can be seductive (Bastide)

Question 6

radical style

Answer 6

style should fit the purpose of the building (Blondel)

Question 7

“The Genius Architecture”

Answer 7

the “character” of architecture and art of pleasing (Mezieres)

Question 8

Bastide

Answer 8

“The Little House”: novel shows architectural seduction

Question 9

three french visionary architects

Answer 9

imagination

• Boullee
• Ledoux
• Lequeu

Question 10

Marc-Antoine Laugier

Answer 10

“essays on architecture”

rational approach in a chaotic and principle-less age

Question 11

“essays on architecture”

Answer 11

defined the ‘primitive hut’ (Laugier)

Question 12

Soufflot

Answer 12

Saint Genevieve (french pantheon)
debated with piers over the pantheons dimensions
Leader of rational design while traditional renaissance arch follows human life

Question 13

Saint Geneive

Answer 13

french pantheon (soufflot)
most important french 18th cen. building

Question 14

Soufflot focused on ______ while the renaissance traditionally focused on ______

Answer 14

rationality

human life

Question 15

Edmund Burke

Answer 15

book on “sublime”

Question 16

Boullee

Answer 16

drawings:
“magnificent scale”
simple geometrical bodies
sublime

Question 17

magnificent scale

Answer 17

humans look very small

Question 18

sublime

Answer 18

more related to darkness than light
nothing can be sublime
related to boullee’s drawings

Question 19

Ledoux’s most important design

Answer 19

Ideal city of Chaux: individual buildings focus on individual needs

Question 20

Lequeu

Answer 20

self portraits
bedchambers in dream
temples for nature (hunting gateway)

Question 21

Giambattista Vico

Answer 21

“Principles of New Science”

recycling history

Question 22

“Principles of New Science”

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(vico) uses references to the past over progressive scientific models

Question 23

Carlo Lodoli

Answer 23

teaches proper use and nature of materials

pragmatic ideas–> reductive modernist motto

Question 24

the “reductive modernist motto”

Answer 24

form follows function

Question 25

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Answer 25

two engravings: - views of rome - prisons (drawn twice)

Question 26

Piranesi's two engravings compared to each other:

Answer 26

prisons (the second set) is much darker/twisted

Question 27

Piranesi's Prisons engraving was...

Answer 27

very ahead of his time

Question 28

Chinoiserie

Answer 28

(imitating Chinese techniques in western art/architecture) fantasy toward other cultures and the folies transplanted from exotic architecture and gardens .... Anglo-Chinese gardens

Question 29

Anglo-Chinese gardens from what perspective:

Answer 29

french ironic perspective

Question 30

Giuseppe Castiglione

Answer 30

Jesuit painter lead design team of European baroque gardens for Chinese emperor in Beijing integrated western metaphysical perspectival view and Chinese cosmological meandering view

Question 31

Viollet-le-Duc

Answer 31

RATIONAL FRENCH GOTHIC REVIVALIST french leader of classical revivalism gothic revival rationalist despite reviving romantic gothic churches

Question 32

Charles Barry

Answer 32

houses of parliament in London | nationalistic impulse

Question 33

nationalistic impulse

Answer 33

gothic revivalism in england

Question 34

houses of parliament

Answer 34

(barry) looks like classic gothic due to nationalistic intention

Question 35

arts and crafts movement | which/where movement

Answer 35

english gothic revivalism | traditional craftsmanship during the age of mass production and machinery

Question 36

leader of arts and crafts movement:

Answer 36

William Morris | Red House

Question 37

red house (which movement)

Answer 37

apart of the arts and crafts movement

Question 38

neo-palladianism

Answer 38

cross Atlantic movement (USA and England) thomas jefferson follows Palladio's four books

Question 39

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 39

brought neo-palladianism through univ of virginia and his monticello house

Question 40

Utopianism in USA

Answer 40

french concept used in early settlements

Question 41

Charles Fourier

Answer 41

french philosopher leader in concept of Utopia designs were influential to USA settlements

Question 42

Ecole des Beaux Arts

Answer 42

Paris school. watercolor drawings education of classicism overthrew tradition

Question 43

Ecole Polytechnique

Answer 43

engineering school that includes architecture teaching

Question 44

Jean Durand

Answer 44

taught the utilitarian art of composition at Paris schools. | rejected Vitruvian classic orders

Question 45

Crystal Palace

Answer 45

London Joseph Paxton vision of modern transparency

Question 46

Joseph Paxton designed _______ in London

Answer 46

Crystal Palace

Question 47

Jeremy Bentham's study

Answer 47

Panopticon

Question 48

Panopticon

Answer 48

designed prisons that shows the power of vision (Bentham)

Question 49

neoclassicism emphasizes

Answer 49

romantic sensations

Question 50

John Soane

Answer 50

England house of memory design of bank of England theory of architecture as a costume

Question 51

Gottfried Semper

Answer 51

Germany | "The Four Elements of Architecture"

Question 52

Semper's the 4 elements of architecture:

Answer 52

hearth roof enclosure mound

Question 53

Semper and Soane both compare architecture to....

Answer 53

costumes/dressing

Question 54

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Answer 54

most important german neoclassic archi | atlas museum

Question 55

Atlas Museum (who and importance)

Answer 55

(schinkel) | shows some romanticism in drawings

Question 56

Soufflot mixed...

Answer 56

gothic and renaissance

Question 57

the french pantheon argument was about

Answer 57

dimensions/cost/rationality

Question 58

bed chambers in dream by

Answer 58

lequeu

Question 59

temples for nature

Answer 59

lequeu

Question 60

house of memory (who)

Answer 60

Soane

Question 61

bank of England (who)

Answer 61

Soane