THEMATIC THEORIES

THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance He was considered the author
• Construction of the oldest research on
• Art Nouveau architecture, wrote an
• Modernism extensive summary of all the
theory on construction and his
• Post Modernism
works depicted a thorough
• Symbolic knowledge of earlier Greek
and Roman writings.
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Marcus Vitruvius
• Middle Ages Pollio
• Renaissance He was considered the author
• Construction of the oldest research on
• Art Nouveau architecture, wrote an
• Modernism extensive summary of all the
theory on construction and his
• Post Modernism
works depicted a thorough
• Symbolic knowledge of earlier Greek
and Roman writings.
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Marcus Vitruvius
• Middle Ages Pollio
• Renaissance What the title of his book that
• Construction consists mostly of Normative
Theory of Design?
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Marcus Vitruvius
• Middle Ages Pollio
• Renaissance What the title of his book that
• Construction consists mostly of Normative*
Theory of Design?
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism *Based on Practice
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Marcus Vitruvius
• Middle Ages Pollio
• Renaissance What the title of his book that
• Construction consists mostly of Normative*
Theory of Design?
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism De Architectura Libri Decem
• Symbolic (Ten Books of Architecture)
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Marcus Vitruvius
• Middle Ages Pollio
• Renaissance De Architectura Libri Decem
(Ten Books of Architecture)
• Construction
• Art Nouveau • the only contemporary source on
classical architecture to have survived in
• Modernism its entirety.
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Marcus Vitruvius
• Middle Ages Pollio
• Renaissance De Architectura Libri Decem
(Ten Books of Architecture)
• Construction
• Art Nouveau • the only contemporary source on
classical architecture to have survived in
• Modernism its entirety.
• Post Modernism • divided into ten sections or “books” and
• Symbolic covers almost every aspect of Roman
Architecture
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance No documents,
• Construction no person can be attributed
for theories
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MONASTERY
• Middle Ages INSTITUTIONS
• Renaissance • Where most documents
• Construction were retrieved
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MONASTERY
• Middle Ages INSTITUTIONS
• Renaissance • Where most documents
• Construction were retrieved
• Art Nouveau • But archives contain only
• Modernism few descriptions of buildings
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MONASTERY
• Middle Ages INSTITUTIONS
• Renaissance • Where most documents
• Construction were retrieved
• Art Nouveau • But archives contain only
• Modernism few descriptions of buildings
• Post Modernism • Buildings were described
• Symbolic only as “according to the
traditional model”
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction Rule of Thumb:
“There’s no accounting for
• Art Nouveau
tastes”
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
How did the building styles
• Middle Ages
develop?
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
How did the building
• Middle Ages
styles develop?
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau • Through the guidance of the
• Modernism “old masters”
• The tradition of the close
• Post Modernism
guilds of builders
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Leon Battista Alberti
• Middle Ages
Sebastino Serlio
• Renaissance
• Construction Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
• Art Nouveau Andrea Palladio
• Modernism
Philibert de L’orme
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
Leon Battista Alberti
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Leon Battista Alberti
• Renaissance De Re Aedifficatoria
• Construction Libri Decem
(“On the Art of Building”)
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Leon Battista Alberti
• Renaissance De Re Aedifficatoria
• Construction Libri Decem
(“On the Art of Building”)
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism VITRUVIUS
• Post Modernism De Architectura
• Symbolic (“On Archictecture”)
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Leon Battista Alberti
• Renaissance De Re Aedifficatoria
• Construction Libri Decem
(“On the Art of Building”)
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism VITRUVIUS
• Post Modernism De Architectura
• Symbolic (“On Archictecture”)
• Ecological *Alberti’s work was largely dependent
on Vitruvius’
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Leon Battista Alberti
• Renaissance De Re Aedifficatoria
• Construction Libri Decem
(“On the Art of Building”)
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism • The first theoretical book on the
• Post Modernism subject written in the Italian
Renaissance.
• Symbolic
• Ecological
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Leon Battista Alberti
• Renaissance De Re Aedifficatoria
• Construction Libri Decem
(“On the Art of Building”)
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism • The first theoretical book on the
• Post Modernism subject written in the Italian
Renaissance.
• Symbolic Emphasis is on the
• Ecological decoration of building
exteriors
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
Leon Battista Alberti
• Renaissance De Re Aedifficatoria
• Construction Libri Decem
(“On the Art of Building”)
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism Unlike Vitruvius’s book, Alberti tells
architects how buildings should be
• Post Modernism built, not how they were built.
• Symbolic Emphasis is on the
• Ecological decoration of building
exteriors
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Sebastiano Serlio
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Sebastiano Serlio
• Middle Ages
• pioneered the use of high
• Renaissance quality illustrations to
• Construction supplement the text.
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Sebastiano Serlio
• Middle Ages
• pioneered the use of high
• Renaissance quality illustrations to
• Construction supplement the text.
• Art Nouveau • I sette libri dell'architettura
("Seven Books of Architecture")
• Modernism or
• Post Modernism
• Tutte l'opere d'architettura et
• Symbolic prospetiva
("All the works on architecture
& perspective").
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Sebastiano Serlio
• Middle Ages
Credits his content to
• Renaissance Baldassare Peruzzi
• Construction
• Art Nouveau • I sette libri dell'architettura
("Seven Books of Architecture")
• Modernism or
• Post Modernism
• Tutte l'opere d'architettura et
• Symbolic prospetiva
("All the works on architecture
& perspective").
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
• Middle Ages
Regola delle cinque Ordini
• Renaissance
• Construction Concise facts and easily
applicable rules of the five
• Art Nouveau
column system
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
• Middle Ages
Regola delle cinque Ordini
• Renaissance
• Construction Concise facts and easily
applicable rules of the five
• Art Nouveau
column system
• Modernism
• Post Modernism Design instructions on:
• Symbolic (1) Idea of Phytagoras
(2) Proportions of small number
(3) Properties & other instruments
(4) Good taste
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Andrea Palladio
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Andrea Palladio
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance I Quattro Libri Dell’architrctura
• Construction
Father of modern picture
• Art Nouveau
books of architecture
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Philibert de L’orme
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Philibert de L’orme
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance • Proved that pantheon’s
Corinthian columns had
• Construction
three different proportions
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Philibert de L’orme
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance • Proved that pantheon’s
Corinthian columns had
• Construction
three different proportions
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism • Rejected the doctrine of
• Post Modernism absolute beauty of
• Symbolic measures
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Before Written Construction Theory
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction During Middle Ages
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic During Renaissance
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Before Written Construction Theory
• Middle Ages Architecture was created without the
• Renaissance help of architects or theory

• Construction During Middle Ages

• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic During Renaissance
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Before Written Construction Theory
• Middle Ages Architecture was created without the
• Renaissance help of architects or theory

• Construction During Middle Ages

No written documents survived about
• Art Nouveau theories or models to describe the
• Modernism magnificent vaults of medieval
cathedrals
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic During Renaissance
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Before Written Construction Theory
• Middle Ages Architecture was created without the
• Renaissance help of architects or theory

• Construction During Middle Ages

No written documents survived about
• Art Nouveau theories or models to describe the
• Modernism magnificent vaults of medieval
cathedrals
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic During Renaissance
Architects began specializing
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance Special school founded in Paris
• Construction where new profession
• Art Nouveau specializing in construction was
• Modernism organized.
Considered as the first
• Post Modernism engineering school in 1747.
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
Ecole des Ponts et
• Middle Ages
Chaussees
• Renaissance Special school founded in Paris
• Construction where new profession
• Art Nouveau specializing in construction was
• Modernism organized.
Considered as the first
• Post Modernism engineering school in 1747.
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical The first architectural style
independent of the tradition of
• Middle Ages
antiquity after the Gothic style.
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical The first architectural style
independent of the tradition of
• Middle Ages
antiquity after the Gothic style.
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical “Product Styles” of the
• Middle Ages Industrial Revolution
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical “Product Styles” of the
• Middle Ages Industrial Revolution
• Renaissance
(1)Arts & Crafts Movement
• Construction (2)Eclecticism
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
“Product Styles” of the
• Middle Ages Industrial Revolution
• Renaissance (1)Arts & Crafts Movement
• Construction
Proponents:
• Art Nouveau William Morris & John Ruskin
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical “Product Styles” of the
• Middle Ages Industrial Revolution
• Renaissance (2)
• Construction Eclecticism
The architecture of borrowing
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages Industrial
Revolution
• Renaissance
Crystal Palace (1851)
• Construction Joseph Paxton
• Art Nouveau Elisha Graves Otis
• Modernism (1857)
• Post Modernism Elevator
Manufacturing of “Rolled
• Symbolic Steel”
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical 1870s
The Great Fire of Chicago
• Middle Ages (1871)
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical 1870s
The Great Fire of Chicago
• Middle Ages (1871)
• Renaissance Downtown in Chicago was
• Construction burned and needs of
construction of new buildings
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical 1870s
The Great Fire of Chicago
• Middle Ages (1871)
• Renaissance Downtown in Chicago was
• Construction burned and needs of
construction of new buildings
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism Chicago
• Post Modernism Place where the first tallest
building was constructed
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical 1890s
The World Columbian
• Middle Ages Exposition (1863)
• Renaissance
• Construction Chief Architect:
Daniel Burnham & Frederick Law
• Art Nouveau Olmstead
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
Popular Modernist Architects
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance • Otto Wagner
• Construction • Adolf Loos
• Peter Behrens
• Art Nouveau • Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
• Modernism • Walter Gropius
• Le Corbusier
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Art Movements
• Middle Ages Influenced by Modernism
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Art Movements
• Middle Ages Influenced by Modernism
• Renaissance
• Construction (1)Futurism
(2)Cubism
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Art Movements
• Middle Ages Influenced by Modernism
• Renaissance
FUTURISM
• Construction
• Art Nouveau Simultaneity of movement
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Art Movements
• Middle Ages Influenced by Modernism
• Renaissance
CUBISM
• Construction
• Art Nouveau Interpretation of Space
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
1920s
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
BAUHAUS
• Construction “Art & Technology, the new
• Art Nouveau unity”
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
1930s
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
INTERNATIONAL STYLE
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical Robert Venturi
• Middle Ages “Less is A Bore”
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical
• Middle Ages Mathematical
• Renaissance Biological
• Construction
Romantic
• Art Nouveau
Linguistic
• Modernism
Mechanical
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MATHEMATICAL
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MATHEMATICAL
• Middle Ages Pure forms
• Renaissance Golden Section
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical BIOLOGICAL
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical BIOLOGICAL
• Middle Ages
ORGANIC: relationship
• Renaissance between parts of building
• Construction or between the building
and its settings
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical BIOLOGICAL
• Middle Ages
ORGANIC: relationship
• Renaissance between parts of building
• Construction or between the building
and its settings
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism BIOMORPHIC: focuses on
• Post Modernism growth processes and
movement capabilities
• Symbolic associated with organisms
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical ROMANTIC
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical ROMANTIC
• Middle Ages
BY ASSOCIATION:
• Renaissance making references
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical ROMANTIC
• Middle Ages
BY ASSOCIATION:
• Renaissance making references
• Construction
• Art Nouveau BY EXAGGERATION:
• Modernism use of contrast,
• Post Modernism excessive stimulation,
unfamiliar scale, and
• Symbolic
unfamiliar forms
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical LINGUISTIC
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical LINGUISTIC
• Middle Ages GRAMMATICAL MODEL:
• Renaissance elements (words) & rules
(grammar)
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical LINGUISTIC
• Middle Ages GRAMMATICAL MODEL:
• Renaissance elements (words) & rules
(grammar)
• Construction
• Art Nouveau EXPRESSIONIST MODEL:
buildings as vehicles for
• Modernism
expressing an attitude towards
• Post Modernism a project
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical LINGUISTIC
• Middle Ages GRAMMATICAL MODEL:
• Renaissance elements (words) & rules
(grammar)
• Construction
• Art Nouveau EXPRESSIONIST MODEL:
buildings as vehicles for
• Modernism
expressing an attitude towards
• Post Modernism a project
• Symbolic
SEMIOTIC MODEL:
using symbols literally
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MECHANICAL
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MECHANICAL
• Middle Ages
A house is a machine for
• Renaissance living
• Construction
• Art Nouveau
• Modernism
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic
 THEMATIC THEORIES
• Classical MECHANICAL
• Middle Ages
A house is a machine for
• Renaissance living
• Construction
• Art Nouveau Beauty assumes the promise
• Modernism of function
• Post Modernism
• Symbolic