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Alberti

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	Leon Battista Alberti was born in Genoa in 1404. The first theorist of Humanist art, Alberti belonged to an important Florentine family that had been exiled from Florence since 1387. When the family returned to the city in 1429 Alberti gained access to the city's great architecture and art which he studied extensively. Well-versed in Latin and Greek, Alberti never received a formal architectural education. His architectural ideas were the product of his own studies and research.		Leon Battista Alberti was born in Genoa in 1404. The first theorist of Humanist art, Alberti belonged to an important Florentine family that had been exiled from Florence since 1387. When the family returned to the city in 1429 Alberti gained access to the city's great architecture and art which he studied extensively. Well-versed in Latin and Greek, Alberti never received a formal architectural education. His architectural ideas were the product of his own studies and research.

	Alberti's two main architectural writings are "De Pictura" (1435), in which he emphatically declares the importance of painting as a base for architecture and "De Re Aedificatoria" (1450) his theoretical masterpiece. Like Vitruvius's "Ten Books on Architecture", "De Re Aedificatoria" was subdivided into ten books. Unlike Vitruvius's book, Alberti's told architects how buildings should be built, not how they were built. "De Re Aedificatoria" remained the classic treatise on architecture from the sixteenth century until the eighteenth century.		Alberti's two main architectural writings are "De Pictura" (1435), in which he emphatically declares the importance of painting as a base for architecture and "De Re Aedificatoria" (1450) his theoretical masterpiece. Like [[roman::author::Vitruvius]]'s "Ten Books on Architecture", "De Re Aedificatoria" was subdivided into ten books. Unlike Vitruvius's book, Alberti's told architects how buildings should be built, not how they were built. "De Re Aedificatoria" remained the classic treatise on architecture from the sixteenth century until the eighteenth century.

	The unfinished Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini (1450) was the first building that Alberti designed and attempted to build based on his architectural principals. Up to that point Alberti's architectural experience was purely theoretic. The facade of Santa Maria Novella (1458-71) is considered his greatest achievement since it allows the pre-existing and newly added parts of the building to merge into a clear statement of his new principles.		The unfinished Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini (1450) was the first building that Alberti designed and attempted to build based on his architectural principals. Up to that point Alberti's architectural experience was purely theoretic. The facade of Santa Maria Novella (1458-71) is considered his greatest achievement since it allows the pre-existing and newly added parts of the building to merge into a clear statement of his new principles.

Paulreed: /* Bramante */

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Bramante

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	==Bramante==		==Bramante==
	Donato Bramante (1444 – March 11, 1514) was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St. Peter's Basilica.		Donato Bramante (1444 – March 11, 1514) was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St. Peter's Basilica.

			===Works===
			*[[Tempietto S Pietro]]

	==Burlington,Lord==		==Burlington,Lord==

Paulreed: /* Le Corbusier */

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Le Corbusier

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	Le Corbusier's early work was related to nature, but as his ideas matured, he developed the Maison Domino, a basic building prototype for mass production with free-standing pillars and rigid floors. In 1917 he settled in Paris where he issued his book Vers une architecture [Towards a New Architecture], based on his earlier articles in L'Esprit Nouveau.		Le Corbusier's early work was related to nature, but as his ideas matured, he developed the Maison Domino, a basic building prototype for mass production with free-standing pillars and rigid floors. In 1917 he settled in Paris where he issued his book Vers une architecture [Towards a New Architecture], based on his earlier articles in L'Esprit Nouveau.
	[[file:Maison-domino.jpg\|thumb\|Maison-Domino]}		[[file:Maison-domino.jpg\|thumb\|Maison-Domino]]
	From 1922 Le Corbusier worked with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. During this time, Le Corbusier's ideas began to take physical form, mainly as houses which he created as "a machine for living in" and which incorporated his trademark five points of architecture.		From 1922 Le Corbusier worked with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. During this time, Le Corbusier's ideas began to take physical form, mainly as houses which he created as "a machine for living in" and which incorporated his trademark five points of architecture.

Paulreed: /* Le Corbusier */

2012-08-30T16:00:09Z

Le Corbusier

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	Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he studied under Auguste Perret and absorbed the cultural and artistic life of the city. During this period he developed a keen interest in the synthesis of the various arts. Jeanneret-Gris adopted the name Le Corbusier in the early 1920s.		Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he studied under Auguste Perret and absorbed the cultural and artistic life of the city. During this period he developed a keen interest in the synthesis of the various arts. Jeanneret-Gris adopted the name Le Corbusier in the early 1920s.

	Le Corbusier's early work was related to nature, but as his ideas matured, he developed the ~~[[file:Maison-domino.jpg\|~~Maison-Domino]], a basic building prototype for mass production with free-standing pillars and rigid floors. In 1917 he settled in Paris where he issued his book Vers une architecture [Towards a New Architecture], based on his earlier articles in L'Esprit Nouveau.		Le Corbusier's early work was related to nature, but as his ideas matured, he developed the Maison Domino, a basic building prototype for mass production with free-standing pillars and rigid floors. In 1917 he settled in Paris where he issued his book Vers une architecture [Towards a New Architecture], based on his earlier articles in L'Esprit Nouveau.
			[[file:Maison-domino.jpg\|thumb\|Maison-Domino]}
	From 1922 Le Corbusier worked with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. During this time, Le Corbusier's ideas began to take physical form, mainly as houses which he created as "a machine for living in" and which incorporated his trademark five points of architecture.		From 1922 Le Corbusier worked with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. During this time, Le Corbusier's ideas began to take physical form, mainly as houses which he created as "a machine for living in" and which incorporated his trademark five points of architecture.

Paulreed: /* Le Corbusier */

2012-08-30T15:58:13Z

Le Corbusier

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	Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he studied under Auguste Perret and absorbed the cultural and artistic life of the city. During this period he developed a keen interest in the synthesis of the various arts. Jeanneret-Gris adopted the name Le Corbusier in the early 1920s.		Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he studied under Auguste Perret and absorbed the cultural and artistic life of the city. During this period he developed a keen interest in the synthesis of the various arts. Jeanneret-Gris adopted the name Le Corbusier in the early 1920s.

	Le Corbusier's early work was related to nature, but as his ideas matured, he developed the Maison-Domino, a basic building prototype for mass production with free-standing pillars and rigid floors. In 1917 he settled in Paris where he issued his book Vers une architecture [Towards a New Architecture], based on his earlier articles in L'Esprit Nouveau.		Le Corbusier's early work was related to nature, but as his ideas matured, he developed the [[file:Maison-domino.jpg\|Maison-Domino]], a basic building prototype for mass production with free-standing pillars and rigid floors. In 1917 he settled in Paris where he issued his book Vers une architecture [Towards a New Architecture], based on his earlier articles in L'Esprit Nouveau.

	From 1922 Le Corbusier worked with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. During this time, Le Corbusier's ideas began to take physical form, mainly as houses which he created as "a machine for living in" and which incorporated his trademark five points of architecture.		From 1922 Le Corbusier worked with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. During this time, Le Corbusier's ideas began to take physical form, mainly as houses which he created as "a machine for living in" and which incorporated his trademark five points of architecture.

Paulreed: /* Le Corbusier */

2012-08-30T15:53:03Z

Le Corbusier

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	Although a proponent of high Modernism, however pared-down, unadorned and 'functional' they may appear, Le Corbusier's buildings do still exhibit powerfully stylised and aesthetic qualities. Thus Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye exhibits the same sumptuous 'rhetoric of whiteness' as does [[Famous_Architects (H-P)#Inigo_Jones\|Inigo Jones]]' Queens House; Indeed one might arguably say that high Modernism makes the very lack of 'ornament' itself into a positive aesthetic quality - a sort of minimalist chic.		Although a proponent of high Modernism, however pared-down, unadorned and 'functional' they may appear, Le Corbusier's buildings do still exhibit powerfully stylised and aesthetic qualities. Thus Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye exhibits the same sumptuous 'rhetoric of whiteness' as does [[Famous_Architects (H-P)#Inigo_Jones\|Inigo Jones]]' Queens House; Indeed one might arguably say that high Modernism makes the very lack of 'ornament' itself into a positive aesthetic quality - a sort of minimalist chic.

			hOWEVER, what looked so splendid on the drawing-board (such as Le Corbusier’s vast city-scapes, with their gleaming towers set amid open expanses of grassland and gardens) all too often turned out in practice to be socially disastrous – precisely because the crucial element in the social-architectural equation (the communities who were expected to live in these gleaming towers) had been omitted from the planning process. It is surely significant that the one feature inevitably absent from the drawing-board visions of Le Corbusier and his allies, was the people who were to inhabit these utopian visions: they appear either as minute dots in the distance, or not at all.

	==Pietro da Cortona==		==Pietro da Cortona==

Paulreed: /* Le Corbusier */

2012-08-30T15:50:44Z

Le Corbusier

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	Le Corbusier's post-war buildings rejected his earlier industrial forms and utilized vernacular materials, brute concrete and articulated structure. Near the end of his career he worked on several projects in India, which utilized brutal materials and sculptural forms. In these buildings he readopted the recessed structural column, the expressive staircase, and the flat undecorated plane of his celebrated five points of architecture.		Le Corbusier's post-war buildings rejected his earlier industrial forms and utilized vernacular materials, brute concrete and articulated structure. Near the end of his career he worked on several projects in India, which utilized brutal materials and sculptural forms. In these buildings he readopted the recessed structural column, the expressive staircase, and the flat undecorated plane of his celebrated five points of architecture.

	Although a proponent of high Modernism, however pared-down, unadorned and 'functional' they may appear, Le Corbusier's buildings do still exhibit powerfully stylised and aesthetic qualities. Thus Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye exhibits the same sumptuous 'rhetoric of whiteness' as does [[Inigo Jones]]' Queens House; Indeed one might arguably say that high Modernism makes the very lack of 'ornament' itself into a positive aesthetic quality - a sort of minimalist chic.		Although a proponent of high Modernism, however pared-down, unadorned and 'functional' they may appear, Le Corbusier's buildings do still exhibit powerfully stylised and aesthetic qualities. Thus Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye exhibits the same sumptuous 'rhetoric of whiteness' as does [[Famous_Architects (H-P)#Inigo_Jones\|Inigo Jones]]' Queens House; Indeed one might arguably say that high Modernism makes the very lack of 'ornament' itself into a positive aesthetic quality - a sort of minimalist chic.

	==Pietro da Cortona==		==Pietro da Cortona==

Paulreed: /* Le Corbusier */

2012-08-30T15:48:07Z

Le Corbusier

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	Le Corbusier's post-war buildings rejected his earlier industrial forms and utilized vernacular materials, brute concrete and articulated structure. Near the end of his career he worked on several projects in India, which utilized brutal materials and sculptural forms. In these buildings he readopted the recessed structural column, the expressive staircase, and the flat undecorated plane of his celebrated five points of architecture.		Le Corbusier's post-war buildings rejected his earlier industrial forms and utilized vernacular materials, brute concrete and articulated structure. Near the end of his career he worked on several projects in India, which utilized brutal materials and sculptural forms. In these buildings he readopted the recessed structural column, the expressive staircase, and the flat undecorated plane of his celebrated five points of architecture.

	~~Le Corbusier did not fare well in international competition~~, ~~but he produced town~~-~~planning schemes for many parts of the world~~, ~~often as an adjunct to a lecture tour. In these schemes the vehicular~~ and ~~pedestrian zones~~ and the ~~functional zones~~ of the ~~settlements were always emphasized~~.		Although a proponent of high Modernism, however pared-down, unadorned and 'functional' they may appear, Le Corbusier's buildings do still exhibit powerfully stylised and aesthetic qualities. Thus Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye exhibits the same sumptuous 'rhetoric of whiteness' as does [[Inigo Jones]]' Queens House; Indeed one might arguably say that high Modernism makes the very lack of 'ornament' itself into a positive aesthetic quality - a sort of minimalist chic.

	==Pietro da Cortona==		==Pietro da Cortona==

Paulreed: /* Colen Campbell */

2012-07-11T12:34:17Z

Colen Campbell

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	==Colen Campbell==		==Colen Campbell==
	===Works===		===Works===
			[[The dawning of Whiggish philosophy and Architecture#Mereworth Castle\|Mereworth Castle]]

	==William Cecil==		==William Cecil==

Paulreed: /* James Gibbs */

2012-07-11T12:31:32Z

James Gibbs

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	===Works===		===Works===
	[[Radcliffe Camera]]		[[The dawning of Whiggish philosophy and Architecture#Radcliffe Camera\|Radcliffe Camera]]

	==Guarino Guarini==		==Guarino Guarini==