The phenomenon of Neo-Greek style in European architecture of XVIII–XX centuries

This article presents two bodies of work, both of which take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of buildings from Neolithic Europe. The first connects archaeology to theories in architectural history, while the second creates links between archaeology and art. This article works through four ideas about architecture which the article offers as disconnected propositions. There is no easy narrative for this article, just as there is none for the living built environment of the past or the present. This article proposes that archaeologists step away from accepted and comfortable knowledge of architectural form and interpretation. The aim of this article is to work through four case studies from our work on prehistoric European architecture. The case studies illuminate four propositions, which are offered as provocations for further work on architecture by archaeologists but also by anthropologists and other social scientists and humanities scholars whose work engages architecture concludes this article.

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Whittick, "European Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Book Review)

Town Planning Review ◽

10.3828/tpr.25.2.m8p5553052701n07 ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 149

Author(s):

J. Brandon-Jones

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

European Architecture

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The Style of the Neo-Greek (Neo-Grec) in the Historical and Cultural Context of the Southern Region of Russia by the Example of the Cities of Rostov-on-Don and Yessentuki

Materials Science Forum ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.931.705 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 931 ◽

pp. 705-710 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eugenia M. Kishkinova

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Southern Region ◽

Main Task ◽

The South ◽

Distinctive Features ◽

Wide Range ◽

Insufficient Knowledge ◽

European Architecture

In European architecture the Neo-Grec style, based on a revival of Greek principles and motifs, is an independent stage in rediscovering of classical antique heritage. It is one of the “new styles” of a historicist phase in architecture that claimed to find national identity in the architecture of independent Greece. In Russian architecture of the mid-19th – early 20th centuries this style is represented in a wide range of monuments that are mostly located in the South of Russia. However insufficient knowledge and research on the monuments of this style create difficulties for their maintenance and restoration. The purpose of the paper is to identify distinctive features of neo-grec in the region. The main task is to determine the reasons for a turn to neo-grec in the South of Russia, to identify and analyze neo-grec buildings in the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Yessentuki, to examine their composition and décor, to identify their ancient prototypes, to differentiate constant and variable elements in the architecture of the Neo-Grec.

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