26 October
"...Re: Stirling's Muses" Part 1
1997.10.26
hello
2000.10.26 19:07
Baroque beginnings?
2000.10.26 15:20
self /5233
2001.10.26
Re: Monkeys and designers
2002.10.26 11:06
2002.10.26 12:01
2002.10.26 16:11
research assisance
2002.10.26 13:55
Disney
2004.10.26 11:41
Confessions of an Architect
2004.10.26 11:51
Re: Halloween costumes
2004.10.26 13:09
2004.10.26 15:42
Mercer House auction catalogue
artist books
Parkway Interpolation
The Driver's Seat
auction catalogue pages
TSOP
New Jersey Coast Architecture
Philadelphia model
Liberty Bell Pavilion
2004.10.26
5233
2006.10.26
Collage Architecture
2007.10.26 13:25
2007.10.26 16:26
2007.10.26 18:29
progress
2007.10.26
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Baroque beginnings?
2000.10.26 15:20
Alex asks:
To repeat a previous question: who designed the Baroque? OR How did the Baroque arise (emerge)? Any takers?
Steve offers:
I think Michelangelo's architecture (which was more or less a product of his late life) manifested tremendous 'new' inspiration for 16th -17th century architecture. The details of the Porta Pia and the wholly integrated articulation of the Sforza Chapel offer architectures completely unprecedented until that time, which in turn inspired new architectures. Likewise, the 'undulating' wall of St. Peter's no doubt became the new paradigm, especially considering that St. Peter's then (as now?) represented the ultimate place of worship. In simple terms, it is best to learn from the best.
To this day, I am intrigued by Michelangelo's fortification designs for Florence (some executed and otherwise recorded as plan drawings). They exhibit many proto-Baroque flourishes, and it is interesting to note the military connection (vis-à-vis 'war and architecture').
"This places Michelangelo's fortification projects among the incunabula of modern military architecture, just at the most fluid and inventive moment in its history, at a time when experience had established no proven formula of design. Unlike the situation in other arts, the lessons of antiquity and of preceding generations were of little account; this is one of those rare events in the history of architecture when technological advances altered the basic precepts of design."
James Ackerman, The Architecture of Michelangelo (Penguin, 1970), p. 127.
2001.10.26
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