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BOOK REVIEW: ARCHITECTURE IN THE RENAISSANCE

BOOK REVIEW: ARCHITECTURE IN THE RENAISSANCE

ARCHITECTURE IN THE RENAISSANCE

The architecture was created for the work of a single, brilliant and stubborn individual: Filippo Brunelleschi, in 1420 at about Florence. His forms were based on a set of rules that could be studied and improved rationally. At the base of this "style" was a landmark decision, taken by Brunelleschi and confirmed by all successors, namely the worship of architectural forms of antiquity, especially Roman. One reason for such a turning point was the fact that the Italians, and the Florentines in particular, to polemics against the claims of the German emperors who felt they were children and heirs of Rome and its traditions. In view of the world based on faith, the fifteenth was replacing the one founded on reason. In fact, religion, or rather, the rationality, was the basis of classical architecture, whose shapes were grouped according to fixed patterns. Every architect, then, it had a cradle that gave standard solutions to most problems.

His attention was thus able to focus on the theme proposed by the genuinely new. This enormous economy of time and effort was the first advantage of the system. The second was his ability to continually improve. Every project starts from the common rule, and gave a more or less brilliant that was applied to the case. Those who came after him could continue where he left off: that is, discard the negative elements, and adopt the positive solutions, up to, over time, almost too absolute perfection. The three Greek orders (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian), then it had added two more: Tuscan (a simplistic version of the Doric) and composite (a variant of the Corinthian enriched). The Renaissance style is based primarily on forms "canonical".

It was no longer necessary to determine from time to time every single form of support, its capital, the various decorative parts, just choose which of the five orders and used to fix the proportions. All the decoration was resolved accordingly. After this step, the only option was to determine the shape and size of the plant. The new movement had no interest in the structure of the building but was only interested in the final aspect that was to take. This led to two consequences: on one hand the character of architecture "designed", which means more than "built" the other, the abandonment of any real structure. The result of this series of thoughts was the idea that each building consisted of two parts: a "box" walls, which formed the backbone and a decoration on top of this box that was as it were the "skin". The two sides could be designed separately.

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