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Translated from French to English - www.onlinedoctranslator.

com

ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT

Historyof architecture 2yerd

Presentedby:
Fatima Zahra DJOUAD

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Synonymous with art by Vitruvius, architecture is
defined as"an art of building"(BattistaAlberti L.,1553),
which raises the fundamental question of whether/
architecture is an art or a science?, .

2
Of Architectura is not just artistic,Vitruvius addresses the
questions constructive with a luxury of details that
cannot leave indifferent all those who admire ancient
monuments for their solidity that seems to defy the
centuries.

.JD Leroy .GBPiranesi

Only Greek The Etruscans, their Roman


architecture was the successors, had outstripped
origin of the true the Greeks in raising
style. architecture to a high level
of refinement.
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ARISTOTE
thought that beauty obeyed the laws of reason, the basis of
the form of objects.
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274),
"To reason is to go from one object of intelligence to another,
with a view to grasping the intelligible truth."

With Descartes (1596-1650)the reign of reason truly began. The


geometry of the ancients seemed to him the model and the
instrument of all knowledge of all demonstrative knowledge.
View of the city of Nancy
Abbé Cordemoy: the questioning of ornament

a doctrine that prefigures anti-decorative functionalism


Marc Antoine Laugier: a universal and natural
architecture inspired by the primitive hut

This primary form is the basis of Gothic structures where


there is no arch or formal articulation and where the
intervals between the columns allow for as much
transparency as possible.
Claude Perrault: positive and arbitrary
beauty.
It was Claude Perrault who first questioned the
validity of Vitruvian proportions. He developed his
own theory on:
Neoclassicism arose from the belief that
movements such as Baroque and Rococo were
moving architecture too far away from its original
sources. Rational thinking, dominant from the
Enlightenment, and archaeological discoveries,
favored this quest for origins.

If the neoclassical current was formed from the


knowledge on ancient architecture acquired
through archaeological discoveries made on sites
of classical antiquity, it also had a significant
theoretical dimension.
Architecture
Neo classic
Expression of the sublime During the 18th
century, with thisdisciplinenascent that is a
esthetics, we begin to wonder about the
impact that associations of forms and styles
havearchitecturaltraditional. In seeking to
understand how art elicits emotionssensoryand
intellectual, aesthetics also expands the
expressive potentials ofarchitecture
RATIONALISM; LOGIC; REASON
ThereThe rationality and scientificity
introduced into the design of architectural
structures perfectly responded to the effort of
clarity advocated by the Enlightenment.

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