Colonnade by Perrault

Bath University

Dept. Of Architecture & Civil Engineering Mark Wilson Jones

History and Theory 3 - 2004/05, Semester 1

“Classicism and the foundations of Modern Design Theory”
Part B, Seminar series: Modern theory: functionalism, rationalism, nature and evolution.

Authors: Third Year of 2004/05
Edited by Howard Tee and Andrew Perkins
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Contents

Contents:
Claude Perrault ....................................5 Primitivism............................................8 Sir John Soane..................................... 10 Durand................................................ 13 Heinrich Hübsch ................................. 15 Schinkel .............................................. 18 Gottfried Semper................................ 20 Viollet-le-Duc: .................................... 24 Augustus Welby Pugin ....................... 26 John Ruskin ......................................... 29 William Morris.................................... 32 Louis H. Sullivan ................................. 35 Adolf Loos........................................... 38 Frank Lloyd Wright............................. 44 Bauhaus .............................................. 47 Robert Venturi .................................... 50 David Watkin ...................................... 54 Notes .................................................. 60 Bibliography....................................... 61

This document comprises of the hand-outs of the presentations given by the student seminar teams of 2004/5 Third Year Architects at the University of Bath. It is bound together here for future reference of the students concerned.

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Claude Perrault

Claude Perrault
1613-1688
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was one of the first to realise the implications of Galileo 's revolution in scientific method. In he denied the his Novum Organum authority of the ancients and proposed a new type of knowledge based on observation and recording of data. Knowledge was, he said, in constant

References: are detailed below exactly as written by the authors of the respective chapters. Primitivism Vogt, Adolf Max (1998) Herrmann, Wolfgang (1962) Vidler, Anthony (1987) Semper Schinkel Snodin, Michael: Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1991), Yale University Press Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Collection of Architectural Designs (1989), Butterworth Architecture Sullivan Conelly, W (1960) Louis Sullivan as he lived, Horizon Press Inc. 61 Manieri Elia, M (1996) Louis Henry Sullivan, Princeton Architectural Press Morrison, H (1962) Louis Sullivan, Prophet of modern architecture, W.W Watkin Watkin, David (2001) Morality & Architecture Revisited, The University of Chicago Press www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk www.lib.duke.edu/lilly/artlibry/dah/pevsnern.htm www.100megsfree4.com/dictionary/theology/tdich