How to Read a Building by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Author:Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

4 The nineteenth century

In some ways, nineteenth-century architecture has had more influence on the way buildings look now than that of the last hundred years. That is because architects were then faced with an explosion of new building types and materials which forced them to experiment with new ideas. Buildings from this period may seem to resemble the historical architecture from the classical and gothic families, but very often the resemblance is only skin deep.

New buildings for new uses

Wherever you live, you can find evidence of the nineteenth-century building boom. In any historical town there will be buildings that testify to the value placed on architecture by Victorians, who believed in its importance as a means of promoting civic and commercial values.

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A tumultuous era

For the first half of the nineteenth century all of Europe was either in turmoil or on the brink of it. The period begins with the continuing reverberations of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon, who was not defeated until 1815; it ends with 1848, when many regimes in Europe were overthrown. This political instability was translated into a lively, questioning approach to architecture.

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