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The architecture produced between 1700 and 1800 represents a classic perfection which no later age has equaled. The first half of the eighteenth century was pervaded by the spirit of the Baroque, epitomized most completely in palaces and churches: Schonbrunn in Vienna, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the dazzling theatrical churches and Residenzes of Germany and Central Europe. After 1750 architecture turned away from Baroque toward Neo-classicism, whose most characteristic types included private houses, institutional buildings and planned towns--Bath, Philadelphia and Washington, with their theaters, museums, hospitals and banks. Summerson provides a succinct and elegant summary of the entire period, bringing into focus not only the stunning beauty of these buildings, but also the background of ideas from which they sprang.
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reviewed The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century (World of Art) on November 01, 2020 The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century (World of Art)
To my understanding, there are two major theoretical undertakings Eisenman has undertaken as a thinking architect. The first is an attempt to deprive buildings of any kind of symbolic meaning and instead substitute a formal poetry. The second, represented in this work, is his development and application of a method for systematically analyzing modern architecture.
The ten buildings, it should be mentioned, are not his own. There is a relatively short theoretical passage at the beginning, followed by a series of meticulously drawn diagrams. The diagrams actually do serve to justify many of the exciting and abstruse points he makes in the passage. Furthermore, one becomes well-acquainted with his basis for architectural analysis, which I am convinced is a powerful tool to have handy.
Some of the issues addressed did not seem powerful or pertinent. For example, while structure seems an obvious candidate for an important design element that can be systematically analyzed, some of the distinctions he makes in this category seem minute and hairsplitting. I am tempted to believe that such abstract perfection is indeed worthwhile, even if no one really notices. Nonetheless, my design conscious tells me that it would best off to restrict attention to the differences that make an impact.
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