Georgian architecture is the name given to architectural styles between 1714-1830. It is characterized by symmetry, proportion, and restraint based on classical Greek and Roman architecture. Interior designs featured Roman inspired details like columns and exterior designs emphasized symmetrical windows and shutters. The style varied in ornamentation from modest homes with simple wainscoting to lavish interiors exhibiting owners' wealth through painted images and luxurious wallpaper.

1. Georgian
Architecture

2. What is
Georgian
Architecture?
 Georgian architecture is the name given to the set of
architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. In the
United States, the term "Georgian" is generally used to
describe all buildings dated back to the period, regardless
of style; in the United Kingdom it is generally restricted
simply to buildings that have stylistic characteristics that
are typical of the period.

3. Τhe Style
 The Georgian style is highly variable, but always marked
by symmetry and proportion, based on the
classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
 Ornament is normally included in the classical tradition,
but typically restrained, and sometimes almost
completely absent on the exterior. The period’s
finance adjusted the architecture to smaller and
more modest buildings than what had been the case
before.

4. The Symmetry
 Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion
and balance; simple mathematical ratios were used to
determine the height of a window in relation to its width or
the shape of a room as a double cube. The search for
perfection in design created an intellectual study of
aesthetics, proportion, symmetry in accordance with the
classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
 Architects attempted to identify mathematical correlation in
ratios copying the geometry of circles, squares and half
squares, and the human proportions.

5. The Architectural
Configuration
Characteristics
INTERIOR
Ιn Georgian interiors the host's lavish expressions of wealth
and taste were exhibited. In the inside of the Georgian house,
one can see Roman inspired niches, alcoves, classical
columns (Corinthian, Ionic and Doric), masonry figures,
vases, urns, ribbons and garlands. Painted images of Roman
gods and goddesses, luxurious wallpapers and painted color
schemes. In more modest homes, ornament is confined to
wainscoting comprised of skirting boards and dado rails, as
well as doorcases, but still according to a collective design
principle.

6. The Architectural
Configuration
Characteristics

7. The Architectural
Configuration
Characteristics
EXTERIOR
A typical Georgian home was square or rectangular, made of
brick, and featured symmetrical windows, shutters, and columns.
It was standing alone in its own landscaped yard or estate,
depending on the size.
Windows in all types of buildings were large and regularly placed
on a grid; this was partly to minimise the window tax, which was
in force throughout the period in the United Kingdom. Some
windows were subsequently bricked-in. Their height varied
notably between the floors, and they increasingly began below
waist-height in the main rooms, making a small balcony
desirable.
The roofline was generally clear of ornament except for a
balustrade or the top of a pediment. Columns or pilars, often
topped by a pediment, were popular either as an indoors or an
outdoors ornament, and the rest of the permanently fit decoration
was generally geometrical or plant-based, rather than derived
from the human figure.

8. The Architectural
Configuration
Characteristics

9. Georgian
Buildings

10. The archetypical
Georgian church
is St Martin-in-
the-Fields in
London (1720)

11. A typical Georgian
country house
would be Ditchley
House in
Oxfordshire.

12. Georgian
'crescents',
Bath Circus

13. The courtyard of
Somerset House,
from the North
Wing entrance,
Built for
Government
offices

14. Pulteney Bridge,
Bath, 1774

15. Sources
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_architecture
 https://evewaldron.com/blogs/news/design-history-
georgian-architecture
 https://atkeyandco.com/the-style-and-characteristics-of-
georgian-architecture/

16. Thank you for your
attention!
Aikaterina Kiousi|A2