Essays in Architecture: Ideas of Picturesque in landscape gardens and urbanism

These are essays done while in Architecture school in 2013. The ideas of which are exploratory and of one person’s perspective.

During the periods of 1750–1800, the Baroque and Rococo style was slowly diminishing. It was a time when the aristocracies’ popularity is dwindling and classical identities of the ancient times in Greece and Rome were on the rise. This gave birth to Neoclassicism in European architecture.

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The emphasis on public buildings in central European cities such as Paris, London and Berlin was a recurring theme (1). There was a sense of giving more functional and machine-like effectiveness (2) to the central cities, which focuses on the needs of improving the city. Public buildings tend to be large and monumental, with clarity and lack of decoration, in order to accommodate the functions needed by the citizens of the city. Works by Dussasoy and Le Camus de Mézières, suggested the urban improvements of then Paris which was under the shadow of a new market construction (3), has immense long-term economic benefits for the national economy.

The 1760s and 1770s featured shared new public settings for joined rituals. Gardens and utopias liberated the public from the…