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.