URSI 110--The City

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Renaissance & Baroque

Key Ideas:

• Humanism (“Man is the measure of all things”) 1, 2
• Classical learning rediscovered
• Walls useless for defense (gunpowder)
• Age of Discovery—re-opening to the world
• Radial planning (space is not bound, but is continuous “ray”)
• Plaza/piazza/platz/place
• Revival of the dome & lantern
• Baroque (extreme ornamentation, “trempe l’oeil”)

City Form

• Ideal plans 1, 2,
• Sixtus VI plan for Rome
• “Allee” & “rond point”
• Dome on pendentive1, 2

Public Buildings

• Church design
• St Peter’s Basilica (Rome) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Campo dei Miracoli (Pisa)
• St. Mark’s (Venice)
• Duomo (Firenze/Florence)
• St. Paul’s (London)
• St. Stephen’s (Walbrook)
• German Baroque 1, 2
• Chateau/Palazzo
• Versailles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Chenonceau (Loire Valley)
• Syon House (London)
• Wilton House (Wilshire)

Commercial/Industrial

• Galleria (Milan) & arcade
• Cappadoglio (Rome)
• St. Peter’s Square 1, 2, 3
• Plazas & fountains 1, 2, 3, 4
• Obelisks 1, 2 as focal point
• Radcliffe camera

Residential/Daily Life

• Knot garden
• Palladian villas—Villa Pisani 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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© 2006 A.J.Filipovitch
Revised 7 November 06