ARCHITECTURE 1200 - NOW

• What is its purpose to the society?

• How does the design express the meaning of that purpose?

• What technical innovations allow for that expression?

Interior of the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy

Gianlorenzo Bernini

DramaStagingMaterials

Aerial view of Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, Italy. Piazza designed by GIANLORENZO BERNINI

Aerial view of Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, Italy. Piazza

Francesco Borromini Facade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy1665–1676

Francesco Baromini , Chapel of Saint Ivo, College of the Sapienza, Rome, Italy begun 1642. p. 656 ch. 24 Gardners, 13th ed.

Fra Andrea Pozzo Glorification of Saint Ignatius, ceiling fresco in the nave of Sant’Ignazio, Rome, Italy

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Louis XIV

1701

Claude Perrault, Louis le Vau, and Charles Le Brun

Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors), palace of Versailles, Versailles, France

Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles le Brun

Francois Girardon and Thomas Regnaudin

Jules Hardouin-Mansart

Royal Chapel, with ceiling decorations by ANTOINE COYPEL, palace of Versailles, Versailles, France

Sir Christopher Wren

New Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London, England 1675–1710

Taj Mahal, Agra, India

1632–1647

Momoyama period, ca. 1582

Taian teahouse (interior view), Myokian Temple, Kyoto, Japan

SEN NO RIKYU

Eastern facade of the Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto, Japan,

TANGE KENZO

National indoor Olympic stadiums, Tokyo, Japan

Showa period, 1961–1964

GERMAIN BOFFRANDSalon de la Princesse, with painting by CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE and sculpture by J. B. LEMOINE, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France1737–1740

FRANÇOIS DE CUVILLIÉS

Hall of Mirrors, the Amalienburg, Nymphenburg Palace park, Munich, Germany

early 18th century

BALTHASAR NEUMANN

Interior of the pilgrimage church of Vierzehnheiligen, near Staffelstein, Germany

1743–1772