I really like the idea of architectural AH but I never feel I know enough about it to do it justice, I just have brief glimpses in LTTW and so on.
I too would like to know some good 'starter' resources on architecture and the history of.I really like the idea of architectural AH but I never feel I know enough about it to do it justice, I just have brief glimpses in LTTW and so on.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/30-Second-...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FD0Y1SJYCWTTM0MHK126I too would like to know some good 'starter' resources on architecture and the history of.
Is the Architecture for Dummies guide any good?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/30-Second-...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FD0Y1SJYCWTTM0MHK126
Maybe this?
Tbh i don't really know. A three year undergrad is an ok starter, but a read through a few books would probably end up with you knowing more than me about pre-1900 architecture.
The thing it that we cover the history of architecture in a tiny amount. Pretty much all I ever learnt was a unit in first year and a unit in second year. Which was a 2 hour lecture once a week.Yeah I was hoping not to have to do a three year undergrad course. Will research.
I can collect up my architectural history lecture PowerPoints (they run from the mid-1700s to the present, so not absolutely everything in architectural history) and put them here as a resource, if anyone would like that?
What course did you do out of interest?I can collect up my architectural history lecture PowerPoints (they run from the mid-1700s to the present, so not absolutely everything in architectural history) and put them here as a resource, if anyone would like that?
Charles Hind saying it is “un-English” to masterplan a cityscape on that scale makes me laugh. The only “un-English” thing here is believing there are limitations on this country’s capacity to subsume and integrate styles we are not yet accustomed to.
Erm has he never heard of the garden city?Charles Hind saying it is “un-English” to masterplan a cityscape on that scale makes me laugh. The only “un-English” thing here is believing there are limitations on this country’s capacity to subsume and integrate styles we are not yet accustomed to.
AEG turbine hall 1909 by peter behrens is who we are taught is the point where modern architecture starts, though tbh before looking it up i had it as a 1890s building rather than 1900sI think an interesting WI from a Americentric perspective would actually derive from the Wren plan-what if instead of hte tendency towards grid plans that originated in Savannah and Philadelphia and came to the forefront with the Comissioner's Plan for NYC, plans more in the Baroque mode with blocks interspersed with grand avenues became the main kind of urban layout? So more cities would be like Annapolis and DC with those layouts?
Another interesting architecture AH would be for neogothic to come to the fore in the 18th century-IIRC there were antecedents of that in the 1720s and various Gothic continuations of existing buildings earlier, so it would be interesting ot change how cityscapes develop.
One last point, @Guernsey Donkey -I thought modernist architecture starts in the first decade of the 20th century? the Fagus Shoe Last Factory was built in 1910 or at least started then, FLW was working by 1900 and his first buildings in a distinctive style are 1910s or so, and Louis Sullivan was working by 1900 and his most iconic buildings are from teh first decade of the 20th century.
Tbh when i was saying modernist architecture i was more referring to the international style and its derivatives into contemporary architecture. Its a major problem when modernism refers to a style 100 years old.Ok. thanks-in the US it's always Sullivan/HH Richardson/Wright and then Fagus Shoe Last. But I am mostly going off reading and not coursework. Point is, it's not a direct invention of Bahaus or Caused by WWI or htat claptrap.