Finally, much of Neoclassical architecture was built under three configurations: temple type, block type and palladio type. The first of the configurations is the best known; Geometrically it was a triangular roof sustained by a series of columns, or in other words, the famous Greek pediment. The rest of the building used to have a rectangular plasticity and was attached to the facade. The block configuration, meanwhile, were completely orthogonal buildings, on whose facade the columns looked and their roof was completely straight. Finally, the Palladio owes his name to the famous Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, who despite being three centuries before neoclassicism, already produced architecture inspired by the ancient Greece and Rome. Palladio highlighted his villas, and are the buildings that gave life to the third configuration. These villas were built in the fields, as an observation center by the land owners.
The power of neoclassical architecture is its representation of the beautiful hand with progress.Peter Y. Chuang / Unspash.
What does neoclassical architecture express?
According to its historical, cultural and political context, Neoclassical architecture expresses progress. This style captured the essence of his time, of changes and revolutions, not only in the aesthetic, also socially. The search for freedom of thought, the gradual departure from religion, political seriousness and commitment to the expansion of culture unbridled in an elegant, polished, strict architecture in its beauty and an exploration of human capacity as a collective.
Inspired by the illustration, but also as a brother movement of the same, Neoclassical architecture is a reflection of the solemnity of its society and of the thinkers who transformed it into progress.
For the mid -nineteenth century, almost all European cities and some in America had large neoclassical buildings.Cottonbro Studio / Pexels.
Examples of neoclassical architecture
The Neoclassical architecture It has great exponents thanks to the dissemination of its forms and aesthetics. The treaties, famous in the 18 They made the neoclassical a world -built style. These are some of the best examples:
Bank of England
England
Being one of the founding countries of the movement, England has large neoclassical jewels, the bank building is one of them. The facade looks a Greek pediment supported on columns. The peculiarity is that these columns later become a kind of strong strong, in which sculptures adorn the level, to later return to the structure of classic columns.