Romanticism-- THE AGE OF ENLIGHTMENT

Romanticism is the first architectural movement that expresses architecture in a phenomenal and an emotional means. The age of Enlightenment is also referring to the age of reasons. It is actually the time where architects begin to find the real meaning of architecture and the original source of how European architecture had become. This had lead to “THE GRAND TOUR”--> The journey to find architectural ruins, paintings, and sculptures in order to understand and become reasonable of what had already exist! For this, they would bring back paintings and duplicate sculptures of what they had seen from the journey to create a sophisticated appearance.

This also led to the movement of “Phenomenology” in the age of Romanticism.  It is the architecture that played mostly with our consciousness, on how we make sense and perceived of the world.  The feeling of “SUBLIME”—Counter reaction to pure reason, was created. It is the biggest aspect of portraying architecture toward people. On how the architecture tries to evoke the feeling of overwhelm and greatness as visitor get in toward the architecture.  This Feeling can be described as “Vastness”, “Infinity”, and Magnitude in Building”.

I believe that the feeling of sublime has been used since the early architecture was created. Just like ancient Egyptian Architecture that they would focus on God’s scale to create the sense of sacredness toward to the visitor; with the use of Doric Columns, Sculptures and etc. The Acropolis is also tries to give the visitor the perfect angle in seeing the architecture in a sublime way!

Baroque Architecture

Baroque Architecture was the movement that tries to break the rules of Renaissance architecture in many ways. This movement was first lead by Michelangelo, where he takes the most classical figure of Christianity and distorts the reference.

“The reformulation of rigid Renaissance principle”

It was the movement that tries to deconstruct the exiting rules and proportion of classical elements in Renaissance architecture. It was portrayed to be the opposite of Renaissance architecture. Where there would be no perfect geometry and ornamentation would be very expressive and massive. The Pediments would also be broken down in to three layers, multi-dimension cornice, paired column and etc. This made the architecture become very expressive than ever before!

The Baroque movement is somehow similar to the Post-Modernism Movement, where both of them try to break the rule of the existing rules and movement! This significantly shows that through out history, Architecture has tried to be changing all the time in any matter. Where new architects would try to find new rules in order to overwhelm the old ones. And yet, architectural movement would still be on going in the future in parallel with the society! 

Renaissance

       Renaissance is the period of perfection! Perfect symmetry and proportion are portrayed on every piece of artwork and architecture. This ideal is what gave the Italian Renaissance uniqueness on their characteristics that specify its style. Donato Bramante is one of the earliest and greatest architects that create a legendary to this creation of perfection.

        Santa Marai Presso San Santiro was the project that Bramante tried to play with perspective paintings to create a perfect symmetry. The choir was supposed to be built in order to create a perfect symmetry, but it was not build because of the placement of the road. Therefore, Bramante painted the perspective view of the choir as an illusion to trick the viewer in thinking that it’s a perfect symmetry that continues.

        

     St. Maria Della Consolazione is simple but powerful work that Bramante had design to portrayed the meaning of proportion and symmetrical. The church is centrally planned surrounded by 4 symmetrical circular domes, and covered with a dome on top.