Architecture Set In Motion
1. Bouffrand: Salon de la Princess, hotel de Soubise, Paris, France, begun 1730’s
Salon de la Princess, is a many sided cylindrical interior room and is part of the Rococo style that incorporates minimal architectural features and light airy decor, that develops into a profession of interior design. Rococo is the revolt against complicated Baroque that decorated the interior of Versailles, in revolt against the palace and after the death of Louis XIV, French women who had city houses in Paris inspired a new lightened airy style of decor and architecture. As seen in the Salon de la Princess, the structure of the room has virtually been covered up by white walls of wood and mirrors, and it ...
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garlands, and birds. Salon de la Princesse is the last major style before neoclassicism, but the free form of the style is a predominate feature in modern organic architecture, and redevelops in the late nineteenth century through the style of Art Nouveau, which is used by Victor Horta, in the Tassel House.
2.Hoare et al.: Stourhead, Wiltshire, England, redesign begun 1750s
The “English” garden is one of the greatest gifts that English designers have contributed to the world of architecture, and the gardens that surround the Stourhead estate in Wiltshire England are massed with many forms of natural origin, and as containers of natural descent they incorporate curving elements, as in the cylinder, cone and sphere, however among the natural creations are manmade structures that contradict natures’ verdant burgeoning display of the curve, with structures that include the cube, or squared forms that makes for a cornucopia of forms both natural and manmade. The
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style is the bases of 19th and 20th century American suburbs, including new ones being built around the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia today, while also emerging in 20th century architects as Wright, who in the Robbie House(1900s) combined inspirations from many different cultures past and present.
3. Pritchard and Darby: Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, England, 1770s
Iron Bridge is the first use of ferrous metal to provide a crossing between two land masses, and it makes use of a pure elegant curve that by “wrapping” with a surface material as modern day artist like the Clauds’ turn into an art form, it would make a rectilinear box that has been bowed by two opposing forces. Darby ...
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