Borromini & Baroque style

Baroque movement was inspired by Michelangelo's mannerism's inventive and expressive reformulation of rigid renaissance rule. Baroque as you know is an over decorative movement, it basically add what’s not needed, composing of a lot of ornaments. Its different from early renaissance in that it over exaggerates the elements, the movement was inspired by Michelangelo. Bernini and Borromini adopt Michelangelo's idea and push it further. I think it is like post modernism and modernism in a way.

Modernism to me is like an early renaissance, using elements such as columns, dome, and pendant. On the other hand, post modernism is somewhat the opposite, over exaggerate components. Michelangelo’s buildings use architecture elements that both support and not support buildings; originally each column is specifically calculated and measured to support the building. Michelangelo plays with the idea that not all elements are needed, columns in his buildings sometimes doesn't touch the ground. Later after Michelangelo died, Borromini and Bernini used this idea of misplacing decorative elements.

Borromini, unlike Bernini is a commoner- modest, receives no rich commission and do not have the luxury as Bernini has. San Carloalle Quarttro Fortane, 1634

Small chapel where Borromini achieved with only form, light and geometry

He use simple, common, cheap material to make complex geometry. Although the materials are cheap, he was able to create more expressive architecture than Bernini's design. His architecture is very modern AND (post modern) in a way that it is full of complexity and contradiction in it self. He used simple geometry and turned them into something really complicated…simply by arrangement.

THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY

History is the study of the past. Everything happening in the world today is a piece of a long line of events, decisions and lives that came before. From the course of architectural history, it focuses on the evolution of buildings, monuments, pediments and settlements in relation to art, history and philosophy. Architectural historians understand settlement patterns and regional growth. It is important for us to learn how to preserve from those historical pieces. The historical of architectural also help us understanding and conserving the cultural heritage that comes along with architecture. There is a deep appreciation for history and culture in architecture that historians try to preserve for future generations. The pieces of historical architectural, tell us the way of life and influenced that people of the past had during the time it was built.

In addition to all of these, history also helps us to learn from the mistakes from the historians, allowing us to skip pervious mistakes and forge forward.

There are many architectural styles that had affected from the historical, mostly these style involving the “neo-“ prefix, for example, the neo-classical architecture.

 

The opera house

At the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Willam Henry Playfair 

employs a Greek Doric octastyle portico

It is a style principally derived from the architecture of Classical Greece and the architecture of Italian Andrea Palladio. One of the reasons for the start of neo-classicism is the discovery of ancient artefacts at the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeil, which was a big inspiration to neo-classicism. As you can see, without the historical of the Greek and Roman architecture, they would not have the inspiration to create the neo-classism style, which is now becoming one of the world’s well-known historical architecture style.

A print exemplifying the contrast between neo-classical vs. romantic styles 

of landscape and architecture.

THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY

 History is the study of the past. Everything happening in the world today is a piece of a long line of events, decisions and lives that came before. From the course of architectural history, it focuses on the evolution of buildings, monuments, pediments and settlements in relation to art, history and philosophy. Architectural historians understand settlement patterns and regional growth. It is important for us to learn how to preserve from those historical pieces. The historical of architectural also help us understanding and conserving the cultural heritage that comes along with architecture. There is a deep appreciation for history and culture in architecture that historians try to preserve for future generations. The pieces of historical architectural, tell us the way of life and influenced that people of the past had during the time it was built.

In addition to all of these, history also helps us to learn from the mistakes from the historians, allowing us to skip pervious mistakes and forge forward.

There are many architectural styles that had affected from the historical, mostly these style involving the “neo-“ prefix, for example, the neo-classical architecture.

 

The opera house

At the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Willam Henry Playfair 

employs a Greek Doric octastyle portico

It is a style principally derived from the architecture of Classical Greece and the architecture of Italian Andrea Palladio. One of the reasons for the start of neo-classicism is the discovery of ancient artefacts at the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeil, which was a big inspiration to neo-classicism. As you can see, without the historical of the Greek and Roman architecture, they would not have the inspiration to create the neo-classism style, which is now becoming one of the world’s well-known historical architecture style.

A print exemplifying the contrast between neo-classical vs. romantic styles 

of landscape and architecture.