FAB10_100) Order and Variety in the Work of Charles Robert Cockerell
1999; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 10; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2164-4756
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Architecture and Urbanism
ResumoCharles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) was renowned in the middle of the nineteenth century as an architect and a theorist whose ideas were articulated in lectures delivered at the Royal Academy. This paper analyses the Ashmolean Museum and Taylorian Institute, Oxford University, Oxford (1839-45) because it was the major work in Cockerell's office at the time that he began organizing ideas on theory and then presenting them to students. Although the lectures are not analysed in detail here, their central theme, the analogy between the body and architecture, will be introduced and shown to have informed such facets of the design as the profiling of details, the choice of the orders, the use of a monumental terrace and an overall composition that is complex yet unified.
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