THE MODERN WORLD

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

England Mid 18th Century

France 1830

United States Post Civil War

AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

• John Locke “Man born as Blank Sheet”– Medievil view “Man is cursed, fallen creature”– 18th C. view “Man starts fresh”

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORICISM

Recreation of Styles

More individualistic

More accurate

Rise of Architectural Scholarship

Discovery of Pompeii

True Greek Doric Order

18TH CENTURY ENGLAND

• Palladian Revival 1720 – 1760– Interaction of politics, ideas, and art

Whigs – Liberal, detested baroque, loved Palladio

Tories - Conservative, baroque, favored the monarchy

• Lord Burlington– Individual with position to promote Palladio– William Kent – Protégé of Burlington

• Invented English Garden

Chiswick House

ASSEMBLEY ROOMS AT YORK

ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEOCLASSICISMNot filtered through Renaissance

All ancient ruins studied – PompeiiSociety of Dilettanti formed

Ancient sites surveyed, Acropolis and China

• Giambattista Piranesi– Published views of

ancient Rome– Mood of decaying

grandeur

• J.J. Winkelmann– German archaeologist– “History of Ancient Art”– “Shocking Doric

Order”

ROBERT ADAM“POST-PALLADIAN ARCHITECT

SYON HOUSEAssembled geometric shapes for rooms

Screened apses and walls

Developed personalized Roman Style of Interior Decoration

Designed as Landscape Designer