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Charles de Wailly Charles de Wailly was a french architect and urbanist. Born in November 1730, he was one of the key players in Neoclassical revival. He proposed "Gout grec" which was the earliest version of neoclassicism. A "..very noble style, far removed from the frippery manner which has reigned so long in our furnishings." was his explanation. He was accepted as first member of the Royal Academy of Architecture in 1771 and continued his focus on his engravings. His work then spread interest throughout Russia but he kept his loyalty to France. In 1772, he was the architect on site for the Chateau de Fontainebleau and worked on the Chateau de Menars. His works continued to be characterized by his growing passion for gout grec and later became the fabric that was Neoclassicism. The Chateau de Montsumard was a fusion of Greek and French style. It was a divided estate located in Dijon, Cote-d'Or. On a plot size of 3 hectares, it was a privately owned es...

Stuart Jacome Arch 211- M11 Prof. Khorsandi Blog Post Palace of Versailles The palace of versailles is the most famous chateau in France. The palace was built in 1631 in the order of Louis XIII. Since the palace was so large there were a few architects that have worked on this structure over time. These include Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin Mansart, Ange- Jacques Gabriel, Claude Perrault, Frederic Nepveu, Robert De Cott, Philibert Le Roy, and Jacques Gabriel. Not only was a palace a place for the royals to reside but it has held numerous other purposes it was originally used as hunting grounds and a private retreat for   Louis XIII which was constructed by Nicolas Huaut . Currently the palace is being used as Museum of French History. When the Chateau was first constructed it was a hunting lodge made up of brick stone and slate.It was then reconstructed in 1631 Louis did not was to be restraint to just a classical design, instead he chose to have classical large stru...

A CITY ON LEGS . Unite D’ Habitation is a apartment building located in France and built by Le Corbusier in 1952. After world war two europe was still feeling the effects of the war. Many families lost their homes during the war. Corb was commissioned to design a multifamily  apartment building. He was a famous architect, however he had never worked on such a large scale before. Corb would have to design the building to accommodate approximately sixteen hundred people. Most people when given a large space would designed a stretched building, however Corb built a taller more compact building. He had already developed his five points which he used as a outline for all his work. Any observer can notice some of the five points corb uses in all his buildings. The building is lifted onto pilates freeing up the ground floor. There is an open ground floor plan, and a green roof. The building had to have public and private spaces. Th...

Eastern façade Le Petit Trianon Western Façade In 1768 the building of Le Petit Trianon was completed on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles. Designed by architect Agne-Jaques Gabriel, it has been referred to as “the perfect home”.   Originally meant to be an escape for the King and his mistress Madame de Pompador, she passed away four years before it’s completion. The layout was exactly as described, a “petit” or miniature version of a palace. With a richly decorated interior thanks to Robert Couturier, perhaps the most notable inhabitant was Marie-Antionette, wife of Louis XVI. The location is set near the edge of the woods, where it was meant to feel like a true escape, even if only yards away from the Palace.         The structure is said to be a perfect balance of Baroque and Rococo styles, in Neoclassical fashion. The entrance is at the eastern façade. The western façade features rounded c...

VILLA SAVOYE       Designed by Le Corbusier and constructed in 1931, Villa Savoye combined all of his “5 points”. The house has a structural system based on pilotis,   free façade, ribbon windows, a flat roof terrace, and open plan. The opportunity for him to materialize his manifesto in this building transformed Corbusier’s career, and the principles of international style. He describes his view on the function of the home with the phrase “The house is a Machine for Living”. The inspiration for the home was based on the motor car, which he deemed to be technological magic. The movement of the car is interpreted radically for the time, where it arrives under the house, as oppose to an outdoor space. The façade of Villa Savoye is comprised of reinforced concrete and exposed structural supporting pilotis. This combination of materials enabled Corbusier to design the home with a sense of freedom of form, additionally allowing him ...

Unite D’Habitation by Le Corbusier was located on Boulevard Michelet, Marseille, France. It was the first large scale project he had ever taken part of as the housing became a necessity after World War II. Due to the bombings on France during the second World War, hundreds of families were left homeless. Le Corbusier was tasked with designing a multi-family residential building, and it would be the first of a series that focused on the ideas of community that would come together in a “vertical garden city”. When completed in 1952, the project would house nearly 1,600 residents. At the time, if one was to design for so many people they would stretch the building out but the site was located on a mixed use, modernist, residential high rise neighborhood. Le Corbusier places the communal areas of the project on the roof, these included places to shop and play. The finished roof was a large garden terrace that included a running track, a club, a kindergarten, a gym, and a shallow pool. The...

 Café l'Aubette, Theo van Doesburg, (Strasbourg, France); 1927; De Stijil, the Avant-Garde in Modern Europe and the Emergence of the Modern Movement Concealed behind an 18th century Baroque façade in Strasbourg’s Place Kléber, the Café L’Aubette is a dazzlingly incongruous expression of the 1920s De Stijl movement.  Designed by Theo van Doesburg, one of the movement’s founders and leading lights, the Aubette’s minimalist, geometric aesthetic was heavily influenced by the work of contemporary artists such as Piet Mondrian. In designing the café’s interiors, Van Doesburg sought to do more than simply place viewers before a painting; he wanted to envelop them in it. Van Doesburg saw in the cafe the opportunity to implement his own theories of Elementarism. Much like Mondrian, he designed in a purely rectilinear, orthogonal manner; the walls were covered in large grids of brightly colored rectangles. However, Van Doesburg did not rigorously bin...

Maison Carrée is a building in Nimes, France. Its name is French for “square house”. The construction of Maison Carrée was completed in 2 AD and it is one of the best preserved Roman temples. Originally, the Maison Carrée was dedicated to the grandsons of Augustus, a Roman statesman and military leader. The Maison Carrée is raised on a 2.85 m high podium and the temple itself forms a rectangle that is 26.42 m by 13.54 m. On the front of the temple, there are six Corinthian temples holding up the building. Along the sides, there are twenty columns that hold it up. The door is very large and measures 6.87 m high by 3.27 m wide but it leads to a small interior space with no windows. Over the years, the Maison Carrée went through many restorations. It used to be part of a large complex that joined with other buildings. They ended up being demolished because the Romans would have enjoyed the isolation that this temple ended up being in. The Maison Carrée ended up being inspiration for ...

Center reading space of the Bibliotheque Nationale The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France, is known for its grand collection of international printed material. Founded by Charles V (1368), the building underwent multiple revisions and renovations throughout history. With over ten million titles, the collection contains a variety of prints from arts, law, economics, language, literature, science, technology, humanities, philosophy and more. The library also contains over 5,000 Greek manuscripts. The 19,000 square-foot library is constructed with several materials. Masonry, iron, terra-cotta and steel create the composition of the building. Its neoclassical exterior impression emphasizes order, and a sense of government power. The heavy horizontal cladding axes are complimented by the vertical nature of the arcade. With a play of depth on the facade, the skin is further defined by the writing on the walls. All these elements contribute to the envelope system which ...

Located in Paris, France, the Arc du Carrousel is often confused with the Arc de Triomhpe, however the two are not to be confused with one another. The Arc de Carrousel was design and built in order to salute and celebrate Napoleon's victories during the time period. It was built in 1806 to 1808 and specifically located between the Louvre and Palais de Tuileries. It was designed by Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, yet inspired by other Roman architects as well. The design was derived from the Arch of Constantine in Rome. It consists of three archways, with the largest reaching 21 feet high. The center arch is neighbored by two smaller arches on each side. The Arc du Carrousel decorated with eight Corinthian style marble columns. At the top of the arch there is a quadriga. This is a statue that consists of the Horses of St. Mark but later replaced by another quadriga that was made by the sculptor Baron Francois Joseph Bosio. There are also eight statues of ...

The Saint-Michel Fountain was part of the urban planning project planned by Baron Haussmann, who commissioned architect Gabriel Davioud to create a new monumental fountain to mask a blind wall. St Michel Fountain is located on Place Saint-Michel by the River Seine, in the Latin Quarter. Gabriel based the centerpiece of a bronze Saint Michael, with a bronze statue. The square is a traditional meeting spot for students from the nearby Sorbonne University and other colleges. It is indeed associated with the riots of May 1968 when the students gathered there and declared it an “independent state” in the face of tear gas and police. St Michel Fountain was built against the gable wall of a building that overlooks the square and Pont St-Michel, It was unveiled in August 15, 1860. The architects Davioud, Flament, Simonet and Halo contributed to the fountain's design. Nine sculptors created its lavish architectural and sculptural features that turn it into a perfect illustration of n...

Industrial Revolution and Eiffel Tower Industrial Revolution was a transition from old manufacturing processes to new manufacturing processes from 1760 to around 1840. Industrial revolution started in Britain but it than it slowly spread to all over the world. Culture and technology played main part during the industrial revolution. People start to use and experiment new materials like iron, steel, petroleum, electricity, steam engine. There are also mass production of materials and goods. Architecture also changed in response to the industrial revolution. Before the industrial revolution the weight of the multistory building had to be supported by the strength of the walls and columns and the taller the building gets the more works goes into the foundation and lower sections. But when the industrial revolution started wood, brick, and stones are replaced with iron and steel. Eiffel tower was also built based on the idea of the industrial revolution, 1889. Eiffel Tower is an...