THEMATIC THEORIES

THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
• Renaissance
He was considered the author of
• Construction the oldest research on
• Art Nouveau architecture, wrote an extensive
• Modernism summary of all the theory on
• Post Modernism construction and his works
depicted a thorough knowledge of
• Symbolic
earlier Greek and Roman writings.
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
• Renaissance What the title of his book that
consists mostly of Normative
• Construction
Theory of Design?
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
• Renaissance What the title of his book that
consists mostly of Normative*
• Construction
Theory of Design?
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism *Based on Practice
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
• Renaissance What the title of his book that
consists mostly of Normative*
• Construction
Theory of Design?
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
De Architectura Libri Decem
• Post Modernism
(Ten Books of Architecture)
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance No documents,
no person can be attributed for
• Construction
theories
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
MONASTERY INSTITUTIONS
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance • Where most documents were
• Construction retrieved
• Art Nouveau • But archives contain only few
descriptions of buildings
• Modernism
• Post Modernism • Buildings were described only
• Symbolic as “according to the
traditional model”
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction Rule of Thumb:
• Art Nouveau “There’s no accounting for tastes”
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
How did the building styles
• Middle Ages
develop?
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau • Through the guidance of the
“old masters”
• Modernism
• The tradition of the close
• Post Modernism guilds of builders
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Leon Battista Alberti
• Middle Ages
Sebastino Serlio
• Renaissance
• Construction Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
• Art Nouveau Andrea Palladio
• Modernism Philibert de L’orme
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
Leon Battista Alberti
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance De Re Aedifficatoria
• Construction (“On Building”)
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
Leon Battista Alberti
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance De Re Aedifficatoria
• Construction (“On Building”)
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism Completed in 1452,
published in 1485
• Post Modernism
Emphasis is on the decoration of
• Symbolic building exteriors
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Sebastino Serlio
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance Regole Generall di Architectura
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
• Middle Ages Regola delle cinque Ordini
• Renaissance
Concise facts and easily
• Construction
applicable rules of the five
• Art Nouveau column system
• Modernism Design instructions on:
• Post Modernism (1) Idea of Phytagoras
• Symbolic (2) Proportions of small number
(3) Properties & other instruments
(4) Good taste
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Andrea Palladio
• Middle Ages
I Quattro Libri Dell’architrctura
• Renaissance
• Construction
Father of modern picture books
• Art Nouveau of architecture
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Philibert de L’orme
• Middle Ages
• Proved that pantheon’s
• Renaissance
Corinthian columns had three
• Construction different proportions
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Rejected the doctrine of
• Post Modernism absolute beauty of measures
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Before Written Construction Theory
• Middle Ages Architecture was created without the help
of architects or theory
• Renaissance
• Construction During Middle Ages
• Art Nouveau No written documents survived about
theories or models to describe the
• Modernism magnificent vaults of medieval cathedrals
• Post Modernism
During Renaissance
• Symbolic Architects began specializing
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees
• Renaissance
Special school founded in Paris
• Construction where new profession specializing
• Art Nouveau in construction was organized.
• Modernism Considered as the first engineering
• Post Modernism school in 1747.

• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical The first architectural style
independent of the tradition of
• Middle Ages
antiquity after the Gothic style.
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical “Product Styles” of the
• Middle Ages Industrial Revolution
• Renaissance
(1) Arts & Crafts Movement
• Construction (2) Eclecticism
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical “Product Styles” of the
• Middle Ages Industrial Revolution
• Renaissance (1) Arts & Crafts Movement
• Construction Proponents:
• Art Nouveau William Morris & John Ruskin
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical “Product Styles” of the
• Middle Ages Industrial Revolution
• Renaissance (2) Eclecticism
• Construction The architecture of borrowing
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages Industrial Revolution
• Renaissance
Crystal Palace (1851)
• Construction Joseph Paxton
• Art Nouveau
Elisha Graves Otis (1857)
• Modernism Elevator
• Post Modernism
Manufacturing of “Rolled Steel”
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical 1870s
• Middle Ages The Great Fire of Chicago (1871)
• Renaissance Downtown in Chicago was
burned and needs of
• Construction construction of new buildings
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism Chicago
Place where the first tallest
• Post Modernism building was constructed
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical 1890s
The World Columbian Exposition
• Middle Ages (1863)
• Renaissance
Chief Architect:
• Construction Daniel Burnham & Frederick Law
• Art Nouveau Olmstead
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Popular Modernist Architects
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance • Otto Wagner
• Adolf Loos
• Construction • Peter Behrens
• Art Nouveau • Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
• Modernism • Walter Gropius
• Le Corbusier
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Art Movements
• Middle Ages Influenced by Modernism
• Renaissance
(1) Futurism
• Construction
(2) Cubism
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Art Movements
• Middle Ages Influenced by Modernism
• Renaissance
FUTURISM
• Construction
Simultaneity of movement
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Art Movements
• Middle Ages Influenced by Modernism
• Renaissance
CUBISM
• Construction
Interpretation of Space
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
1920s
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
BAUHAUS
• Construction
“Art & Technology, the new unity”
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
1930s
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
INTERNATIONAL STYLE
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Robert Venturi
• Middle Ages “Less is A Bore”
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Mathematical
• Renaissance
Biological
• Construction Romantic
• Art Nouveau Linguistic
• Modernism Mechanical
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MATHEMATICAL
• Middle Ages Pure forms
• Renaissance Golden Section
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical BIOLOGICAL
• Middle Ages ORGANIC: relationship
• Renaissance between parts of building or
• Construction between the building and its
settings
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism BIOMORPHIC: focuses on
growth processes and
• Post Modernism
movement capabilities
• Symbolic associated with organisms
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical ROMANTIC
• Middle Ages
BY ASSOCIATION:
• Renaissance making references
• Construction
• Art Nouveau BY EXAGGERATION:
• Modernism use of contrast, excessive
stimulation, unfamiliar
• Post Modernism
scale, and unfamiliar
• Symbolic forms
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical LINGUISTIC
• Middle Ages GRAMMATICAL MODEL:
• Renaissance elements (words) & rules
(grammar)
• Construction
• Art Nouveau EXPRESSIONIST MODEL:
buildings as vehicles for expressing
• Modernism
an attitude towards a project
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic SEMIOTIC MODEL:
using symbols literally
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MECHANICAL
• Middle Ages
A machine is a house for living
• Renaissance Beauty assumes the promise of
• Construction function
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic