Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

@Praxiteles wrote:

Praxiteles does not share Appelles’ view on this one . . . . This may as well be the Sydney opera house.

A lot of people think that Meier should have stuck with rectangles.

@Praxiteles wrote:

Diachronicastically, my reading of Leon Battista Alberti, Sebastiano Serlio and Andrea Palladio is that all three understood what they were doing in terms of “reviving” the architecture of the ancients.

I think we have to be careful with the use of the term ‘reviving’.

Certainly, the drive to re-descover classicism defines the renaissance, but in terms of architecture, it was the rules of classicism that preoccupied these 16th century Italian architects and architectural theorists.

They were not trying to replicate individual classical buildings, they set out to learn, understand and propagate the rules and the language of classical architecture and with that knowledge under their belts, they moved on from ‘mannerism’ and ushered in the high renaissance. The next generation, people like Bernini and Longhena [as discussed above], took it to the next level with Baroque.