History of Housing Architecture

                  Bath is a city of Roman foundation near thermal sources, it is a city of thermal baths, hence the name. Due to the warm baths, Bath was advertised as a holiday city. Bath is a Georgian City and was built during the 18 th century. Repetition and homogeneity are main traits of Georgian Architecture. The houses were formed in uniformed groups similar to the Medieval period, but these buildings would form curves and crescents instead of straight blocks. Bath became a model for cities built of circles and crescents.                 Every building consisted of many houses, the houses would be subleased to individual builders who would take the responsibility to form the interior of the house, but the exterior must conform to John Wood’s design. Symmetry was a priority in the design of buildings, the exterior had simple ...

 

                  I enjoyed learning about the 19 th century architecture of Paris, I admire how efficient and accessible Napoleon III wanted Paris to be. But I wonder how the people who’s buildings were destroyed to make more efficient roads were affected and if they were compensated. Hearing that reminded me of Des Moines building I-235 and how they had to destroy a lot of businesses for the construction. The architecture was very pretty and reminded me of Georgian cities.

       Paris was built from the vision of Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann, they wanted to make the most modern city in the world. Napoleon III marked up plans and made instructions for Haussmann to execute through the city of Paris. The reconstruction of Paris started after the fire in London 1841, Napoleon wanted to recreate ideas from London, he instructed Haussman “Take every opportunity to organize the placement of the greatest possible number of squares in all Paris districts in order to offer generous places of recreation and leisure to all children here, rich and poor, just as they have in London.” Napoleon III drew up maps of Paris and reconstructed the streets to make travelling across the city more efficient. Some blocks had to be destroyed and cut through to make new roads, other buildings had to rebuild the front of the buildings in order to widen the roads.  Due to the new road construction the geometry of the blocks were never regular, they were...

 

  I really enjoyed learning about the Renaissance this week, it was beautiful and my favorite type of architecture yet. It made me question if I wanted to do my presentation just about the Renaissance, but I couldn’t find any courses on edx about just the Renaissance. I would definitely learn more about it on my own. I think it is a very cool period, I wonder what made them idolize art and beauty so much.