Age
of Enlightenement: Thank to the Rich
The Age is
Enlightenment or 'The Age of Reason' is the age where people started
exploring the rest of the world, seeking for truth and logic.
The Grand Tour
where they explored different places around the world and study the
past and seeking for the truth. Rich people would travel the world,
paid some great artist to paint him (or her (rather unlikely) ) at
different places, came back and create architecture from bits they
could recalled from the great architecture around the world. Almost
literally cutting and pasting pieces together like a collage.
Supposedly eclectic is the name given to this type of creation where
ideas, style or taste are derives from broad, diverse range of
sources. Apparently, from architecture and architecture movements
being about the form, the function, the belief and etc, architecture
during the grand tour period became about whether or not you have the
money to go on the tour.
Folly
is another subset of architecture born during the age of
enlightenment where money are spent on the creation of 'fake'
building with no living space that are extravagant and usually take a
form of architecture from around the world(hence the owner with the
kind of money to spent on a folly is most likely to already have gone
on a grand tour) and usually are made to look old since brand new.
The important of follies are not to depict important or outstanding
architecture from around the world but rather to be an part of . . a
garden. According to wikipedia, the outstanding features of a folly
is that it is 'merely so extravagant that it transcends
the normal range of garden ornaments or
other class of building to which it belongs'.
It
also said that many follies were built to provide employment for
peasants and unemployed artisans so supposedly there were good
intensions behind the ridiculousness of money spent on gardens. Lets
thank to the rich from the 18th
and 19th
century who had a contribution to open the world for people who
cannot pay for the grand tour by creating architecture that
practically combines many things from many places together and also
creating follies mimicking architecture from around the world for
other to see and also increase the employment rate and prolong the
skills of skillful artisans. Probs to them.
Grand tour
Folly
http://dictionary.reference.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly#Follies_in_18th_century_French_and_English_gardens
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