THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

• Historicism Continues Style known only as 19th
  Century
• 19th Century Conservatism
• Rationalism led to miseries
• Strong belief in the past
• Tradition vs. Innovation
• The struggle of 19th century
• Hegelianism reality and truth through process,
  history, and conflict
• Hegal, Darwin, Marx, Freud

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19TH CENTURY

• Architectural Climate
• Conflict (outward)
• Battle of Styles
• Conflict (inward)
• Architectural Scholarship
• Technology
• Architecture
• Worldly and spectacular

• Technology
• Architecture vs.
• Engineering

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19TH CENTURY CURRENTS

• INTERNATIONAL NEOCLASSICISM
• ECLOLE DES BEAUX ARTS
• VICTORIAN GOTHIC

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THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

• John Roebling
• Egypto Roman Gothic
• Granite towers
• eclectic
• Seen as lapse in good taste
• Suspension Bridge
• Vertical cables
• Wire trusses

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Caisson Detail
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