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Timeless Forever:  Ancient Greek and Roman Architecture that inspires today

As Karl Friedrich Schinkel was designing the Altes Museum in Berlin in 1825, he had an ambition to redefine the typology of museum architecture from thereafter. In doing so, he sought to construct a building that married elements of the past with components of the present and future – in essence, to build something timeless. Schinkel turned to the Greek Stoa in Athens as a model for the Altes Museum. Subscribers to neoclassicism recognized that the Greek revival movement was established to create an importance to their individual structures, just as classical Greeks did with their prized designs, and thus the function of buildings were an important qualification for whether neoclassical design was appropriate. Classical Roman architecture was similar to that of the ancient Greeks, particularly when one
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June 25th, 2009 | Category: Neoclassical Architecture | Comments are closed

From Death Arises Life

A desire to return to more basic
Symmetry and order
“Traditional Architecture” - NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

There exists a popular cliché that is repeated to us – undoubtedly you have heard it- that goes: “From death arises new life.” Naturally, it is commonly associated with religious creed in the form of life after death; a message that death is not to be dreaded or feared for it produces something better and more perfect in its wake. Yet, the notion that the destruction of one entity will yield something better extends beyond theocracy. Many facets of life, politics, and idea are built on the foundations of previous or extinct entities. Nowhere is this more evident than in architecture. Neoclassical architecture represented a revolution in its truest sense. It was a reaction against the Baroque and Rococo, and an attempt to revive the essence of classical  Greco Roman forms from an epoch long past.
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June 21st, 2009 | Category: Neoclassical Architecture | One comment - (Comments are closed)