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012 VICTORIAN GOTHIC 1830. Most successful and England’s major contribution Individualistic Architectural training haphazard Prosperity 1830 – 70, many buildings constructed Development Gothic revival to 1800 Post 1800, gaps despite gothic scholarship 1830’s – gaps begin to bridge.
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012 VICTORIAN GOTHIC 1830 • Most successful and England’s major contribution • Individualistic • Architectural training haphazard • Prosperity 1830 – 70, many buildings constructed • Development • Gothic revival to 1800 • Post 1800, gaps despite gothic scholarship • 1830’s – gaps begin to bridge
HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, LONDON 1836 - 60 • Barry and Pugin • Barry, classical plan, symmetrical • Pugin, asymmetrical gothic facade • Contradictions • Tudor details on a classical body • Gave legitimacy and an appeal to the style
AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE PUGIN • Author of “Contrasts” and “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture”. • Synthesized gothic archaeology, French rationalist theory and Roman Catholicism (escapism) • Only true architecture for England is gothic • Only pre-perpendicular was true gothic • Radical functionalism • Each part assumes necessary plan and volume and must be set together in an orderly way. (all equal) • Puginesque buildings • Function to plan, plan to interior volumes, interior volumes to external massing. Result is picturesque looking buildings.
HIGH VICTORIAN GOTHIC 1853 • John Ruskin • Main force in survival of historicism • Author of “Seven lamps of architecture”, 1849, and “The stones of Venice” 1851 – 53 • Raged against modern age • Praised ancient buildings and craftsmen • Architectural aesthetic centered on “unnecessary” features of a building.
William Butterfield • Church of All Saints – 1852 • Commissioned by reform group • Ecclesiological Society Sought to emphasize spirituality and provide colorful setting for clergy. • Constructed of brick for color and texture • Influenced by Sienna Cathedral • Program “squeezed” onto small site • Steep, vertical proportions • Interior composed of dense polychrome • Patterns compete • Chapel of Keble College 1867 - 83
George Edmund Street • St. Paul’s American Church, Rome, 1873 – 76 • Law Courts • Secular High Victorian Gothic • Oxford University Museum 1855 • Deane and Woodward • Albert Memorial 1863 • G.C. Scott