european architecture and its origin
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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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