Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by

the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century,

both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic
naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing
features of Late Baroque
neoclassicism in architecture is evocative and picturesque, a
recreation of a distant, it is framed within the Romantic sensibility
Intellectually Neoclassicism was symptomatic of a desire to return
to the perceived "purity" of the arts of Rome, Greek,and
renaissance classicism

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Background of emergence of neo classical architecture
Architecture of baroque and rococo
Two forces
Technological change
Social change
Architects were Compel to look for new and true style
Expedition to greek and roman cities
Books on ancient monuments
Le roy, piranesi and adams works
Hallucination of ancient forms in new work

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Royal Scottish academy Edinburgh by
William Henry playfair
Greek Doric style portico

Putteney bridge bath by

Robert Adam

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Elisabethkirche in Berlin

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Altes museum Berlin

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 Prado museum in Madrid by Juan de
Villanueva

Cathedral of Vilnius (1783), by

Laurynas Guceviius
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Building Should Immediately Communicate Its Functions to
Its Viewer

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Boulle
between 1778 and 1788 that Boulle made his biggest
impact on architecture.
He developed a distinctive abstract geometric style inspired
by Classical forms
Characteristic
removal of all unnecessary ornamentation,
inflating geometric forms to a huge scale
repeating elements such as columns in huge ranges.

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DOCTRINE
Architecture should express its purpose
Cnotaphe a Newton (1784)
sphere form of 150 m (500 ft) high embedded in a circular base

structure was never built

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his book Architecture, essai sur l'art ("Essay on the Art of
Architecture), arguing for an emotionally committed
Neoclassicism, was only published in 1953.
Consist of his work from 1778 to 1788, which mostly
comprised designs for public buildings on a wholly
impractical grand scale.
Fondness for grandoise design - megalomaniac and a
visionary
Innovative design ideas polarity offsetting opposite design
elements
Use of light to evoke divine feeling

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Claude Nicolas Ledoux

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The Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

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Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

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Project for the ideal city of Chaux: House of supervisors

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