ARC 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Classical Architecture, Robert Adam

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Architecture
• Course: ARC 111
• Professor: Andrew Manson

Document Summary

The ideological uses of neoclassicism: post-renaissance designers attempted to reproduce images from the past with the more accurate knowledge of documentary sources. Archaeology is what made neoclassicism unique: the french and industrial revolutions generated new motivations for the embrace of classical architecture. The emancipatory aims of the first favored a universal architecture accessible to all and the economic demands of the second required expedient assembly and standardization. From durand"s rationalism to nationalism: with napoleon, new french-inspired governments instituted rationalized bureaucracies, efficient tax systems, national programs of high education, national banks, and new infrastructure. Architecture became a topic of public interest concerned with the supply of schools, hospitals, museums, prisons, and cemeteries: the lessons of jean-nicholas-louis durand provided the theoretical foundation for the creation of buildings. He urged architects to avoid imitation, concentrating on rational production. He considered decoration and symbolism auxiliary to basic design. variety to his work.