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!