Revival architecture period

1. Revival
Architecture
Mangao Matanguihan Mejico Merin

2. Content
1
Influences in the
development of
Architecture
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Architectural Character
3
Periods of Development
4
Sample structures and
distinct terminologies

3. PERIODS OF
DEVELOPMENT

4. REVIVALISM
• GOTHIC REVIVAL
• GREEK REVIVAL
• CLASSIC REVIVAL
• COLONIAL REVIVAL
Gothic Revival was an architectural movement beginning in
England during the 1740s that sought to revive medieval
forms.
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of
the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in
Northern Europe and the United States.
This is architecture that looks back to a Classical past.
The Colonial Revival style was an effort to look back to
the Federal and Georgian architecture of America’s
founding period for design inspiration. .

5. • The two most prevalent styles of Revivalism
period were the Colonial Revival and the
Classical Revival which were inspired by early
American buildings of Georgian, Federal, or
Greek or Roman Revival style.

6. Recent centuries, in the West, the
discovery of the ruins of ancient
Roman Pompeii in the mid-1700s
initiated a 200-year love affair with all
styles past. Imitating styles from the
past is called revivalism, or revival
styles.
George W. Bourne (1801–1856, US), Wedding
Cake House, Kennebunk, Maine, 1826/1852–
1856.

7. GREEK REVIVAL
• Greek Revival is a style of architecture
inspired by the symmetry, proportion,
simplicity, and elegance of the ancient
Greek temples of 5th century B.C.
• The Greek Revival was an architectural
movement of the late 18th and early 19th
centuries, predominantly in Northern
Europe and the United States
• In the United States, Greek Revival
reached peak popularity from 1825 to
1860, which was the start of the Civil
War.
Thomas Hamilton’s design for the Royal
High School, Edinburgh, completed 1829
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany

8. HISTORY
• British architect James “Athenian” Stuart is said to have
been the first to introduce Greek Revival to Britain.1 Taken
by the classical beauty of the architecture he discovered on
a 1751 trip to Greece, Stuart documented his discoveries
and published Antiquities of Athens in 1762, producing the
world’s first reference book detailing Classical Greek
architecture. While Stuart died in 1788 before it became a
full-blown trend in England and Europe in the 1820s and
30s, he is widely credited with helping to spread the Greek
Revival style outside of its country of origin.

9. One of the reasons the style was able to
spread so quickly in an era when most
developers and builders acted as their own
architects (a luxury still reserved for the
wealthy at the time) was the existence of
architectural pattern books such as "The
American Builder’s Companion" by Asher
Benjamin, John Haviland’s "The Builder’s
Assistant," and "The Beauties of Modern
Architecture" by Minard Lafever that
allowed developer/builders of the time to
copy Greek Revival elements in great
numbers.

10. GOTHIC REVIVAL 1730-1930
• Also termed Victorian Gothic and Neo-Gothic, the Gothic Revival
sought to revive medieval forms, much like the Neoclassical style
sought to revive works from classical antiquity.
• The Gothic Revival occurred as industrialization progressed, in part
because there was a reaction against the use of machinery and
factory production.

11. • While the Neoclassical style of the 18th century
was associated with “radical” and liberal
perspectives, the Gothic Revival was associated
with “traditional” sensibilities, such as
conservatism and the monarchy. The Gothic
Revival style is characterized by its stone and brick
structures, many of which are religious in nature,
as well as having heavy decoration, pointed
arches, steep gables, and large windows.
Sint-Petrus-en-
Pauluskerk in Ostend (Belgium), built
The Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, Savannah (Georgia, United States)

12. • Gothic revival cottages and
smaller buildings, called
“Carpenter Gothic,” also became
popular.
• A. W. N. Pugin was a prominent
architect, designer, artist, and
critic who was involved in the
Gothic Revival style.
Exterior of the Palace of Westminster: A. W. N.
Pugin designed the Palace of Westminster, and
was an architect, designer, artist, and critic deeply
involved in the Gothic Revival.

13. CLASSICAL REVIVAL (1895-1950)
• This is architecture that looks back to a Classical past. The roots of
Classicism are in ancient Greek and Roman architecture - in the
temple architecture of ancient Greece and in the religious, military
and civic architecture of the Roman Empire.
Design for the Three per Cent Consols Office,
Bank of England, 1799 (Sir John Soane) RIBA
Collections

14. COLONIAL REVIVAL 1880-1955
• Colonial Revival is the single most popular architectural style in the
United States, in great part because of its richly varied vocabulary
and inherent eloquence.
• The name of the style reflects the late-19th-century fascination with
homes built by the early English and Dutch settlers, an affection that
intensified through the World War I and II years before peaking in
the mid-1950s.

15. The Colonial Revival style was
an effort to look back to the
Federal and Georgian
architecture of America's
founding period
for design inspiration. Less
commonly, the Post-Medieval
English and Dutch
Colonial house forms were an
influence on the Colonial
Revival style.