French Architectural Thought and the Idea of Greece

Armstrong, Christopher Drew

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“…never informed by encounters with actual Greeks (Winckelmann never visited Greece)" [29]. Christopher Drew Armstrong, in "French Architectural Thought and the Idea of Greece", remarks that "[f]or Quatremère de Quincy, 'Greek' was synonymous with 'Classical,' signifying an architecture based on the orders and governed by a regular system of proportions" [30]. As Drew Armstrong highlights, Hittorff presented the outcomes of his investigations on polychromy at the Académie des Beaux-arts and the Académie des Inscriptions, in 1830.…”

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“…As Drew Armstrong highlights, Hittorff presented the outcomes of his investigations on polychromy at the Académie des Beaux-arts and the Académie des Inscriptions, in 1830. Moreover, he displayed his drawings at the Salon of 1831 [30].…”

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“…. ] reconciled the different factions in the debate over polychromy by suggesting that the more or less extreme use of paint on ancient Greek temples could be ascribed to different historical periods in the development of Greek architecture" [30]. Beulé was supported by Labouteux, Louvet, and Garnier during his excavations of the Propylaea.…”

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Travel to Greece and Polychromy in the 19th Century: Mutations of Ideals of Beauty and Greek Antiquities

Charitonidou

2022

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The article examines the collaborations between the pensionnaires of the Villa Medici in Rome and the members of the French School of Athens, shedding light on the complex relationships between architecture, art, and archeology. The second half of the 19th century was a period during which the exchanges and collaborations between archaeologists, artists, and architects acquired a reinvented role and a dominant place. Within such a context, Athens was the place par excellence, where the encounter between these three disciplines took place. The main objective of the article is to render explicit how the revelations of archeology, actively disseminated by the members of the French School of Athens—the “Athéniens”—had an important impact on the approach of certain pensionnaires of the Villa Medici in Rome. Particular emphasis is placed on certain pensionnaires, who decided to devote their envois to ancient monuments of Greece. In parallel, the article intends to shed light on the methods that helped the pensionnaires-architects of the Villa Medici in Rome appropriate archaeological discoveries concerning Greek antiquities. The article takes, as a starting point, the following hypothesis: to better understand the figure of the architect-archaeologist, of whom Jacques Ignace Hittorff is an emblematic example, it is pivotal to bear in mind that before the second half of the 19th century neither the figure of Hellenic archeology nor the figure of the architect had yet acquired their autonomy. Taking into account that Johann Joachim Winckelmann, in the middle of the 18th century, forged an ideal Greek model, which was criticized during the second half of the 19th century, the article also sheds light on the fact that the revelations of archaeologists have called into question the Winckelmannian image of Greece. Another aspect that is explored in the article is Jacques Ignace Hittorff’s studies concerning the polychromy of ancient Greek monuments, paying special attention to his Restitution du temple d’Empédocle à Sélinonte ou l’Architecture polychrome chez les Grecs. The article also explores how the shifts of the status of philhellenism are related to the mutations of the meaning of travel to Greece. In parallel, it investigates the impact of Greek independence on the ideals of beauty and nature in arts, as well as how Greek independence is related to the intensification of the interest in the excavations of Greek antiquities.

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2022

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“…Therefore, the motivation of this paper is to bring to the attention of architects, architecture instructors, and students to understand the activities we do in design studios in relation to Hegelian thoughts even if they are celebrated or rejected, regenerated or outdated, and transformed or criticized (Borchert, 2005). However, this style of teaching in architecture design studios was spread out mainly through the tradition of Beaux Art with both positive (Craven, 2019;Armstrong, 2016) and negative effects (Littmann, 2000;. It is significant to know that Hegel's philosophy and thoughts were a great foundation for successor philosophies, such as phenomenology and hermeneutics, existentialism, Marxism, critical theory, and deconstructionism (Sinnerbrink, 2007).…”

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Tracing Hegel’s Philosophy and Thoughts in Educational Styles of Architecture Design Studios

Tafahomi

2023

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This paper aims to trace the influences of Hegel’s philosophical thoughts and ideas on the architecture design studios’ activities. Hegel is a key figure in the modern history of philosophy that lived in the time of establishing Beaux Art on the skeleton of Academie d’Architecture. Despite the many developments in different areas of education, seemingly, there are still some common grounds between Hegelian philosophy and architecture design studio activities that need to be highlighted and criticized. Content analysis and storytelling based on the structured observation applied in this research to compare two foundations. The results reveal four connections between Hegelian philosophy and architecture design studio activities, including precedents studies and historical dialectic, learning by doing and self-consciousness, crits (critiques) and idealism, and master-apprentice and master-slave theories, respectively. The findings highlight that activities in architecture design studios regenerate through studios, which run based on traditions, disciplines, and styles under the influences of Hegel’s philosophy. In conclusion, while Hegelian thoughts spread through successor philosophers in phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, Marxism, and structuralism, education in architecture design studios has continued without the regeneration of ideas.

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“…a arquitetura grega no século XVIII 109 . Leroy, apesar de nunca ter construído um projeto, acabou tendo importante influência nos debates da arquitetura de seu tempo se tornando a principal referência teórica de Choisy na leitura dos efeitos do "pitoresco" e da "paralaxe" nos templos gregos 110 158 BRUNO, Op. Cit., 2007, p. 58 159 EISENSTEIN, Op.…”

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French Architectural Thought and the Idea of Greece

Cited by 5 publications

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Travel to Greece and Polychromy in the 19th Century: Mutations of Ideals of Beauty and Greek Antiquities

Travel to Greece and Polychromy in the 19th Century: Mutations of Ideals of Beauty and Greek Antiquities

Tracing Hegel’s Philosophy and Thoughts in Educational Styles of Architecture Design Studios

Arquitetura Revelada Pelo Cinema: O Filme Como Processo De Investigação Da Arquitetura

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