A History of Western Architecture: Greece & Rome, Part II

Architectural historian Francis Morrone presents Part II of his primer on the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, which inspired the design movement we now recognize as “classical architecture.”
This course is presented by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, a national nonprofit promoting the practice, understanding, and appreciation of classical design. To watch more online classes like this one, or to become a member and support our educational mission, visit www.classicist.org/ .
About the Course:
On May 20, 2020, the ICAA hosted the second in a series of two livestream courses with architectural historian Francis Morrone, with the goal to explore the basic history of Greek and Roman architecture, the development of the classical language of architecture, how the Romans transformed the Greek orders, and what it all meant for Western civilization going forward. Mr. Morrone discussed the development of the orders, temple architecture, the role of sculpture, the development of arch and vault construction, the triumphal arch, and more, with emphasis upon great monuments such as the Parthenon, the Colosseum, and the Pantheon.
In this video, Mr. Morrone focuses on the architecture of ancient Rome. Part I, focusing on the architecture of ancient Greece, is available here: • A History of Western A...
What You Will Learn:
• The roots of Western architecture in ancient Greece and Rome
• The major monuments and significant lesser works of ancient Greek and Roman architecture
• An understanding of the orders of classical architecture and the ways in which they have been creatively adapted
• The terminology of classical architecture, through examples drawn from ancient Greek and Roman architecture
• The legacy of ancient Greek and Roman architecture throughout the course of Western architecture--and not least in New York City
About the Instructor:
Francis Morrone is an architectural historian and a writer and the author of twelve books, including “Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes,” published by W.W. Norton in 2013) and, with Henry Hope Reed, “The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building,” from W.W. Norton, 2011, as well as architectural guidebooks to Philadelphia and to Brooklyn. His “History of the East Village and Its Architecture” was published by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, through a grant from the Preservation League of New York State, in 2018. He is the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, the Landmarks Lion Award of the Historic Districts Council, and New York University’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He was named by Travel and Leisure magazine as one of the thirteen best tour guides in the world. He was for six and a half years an art and architecture critic for the New York Sun, and his writings appear in such publications as the New Criterion, City Journal, the Wall Street Journal, Humanities, and the Hopkins Review. His research interests include nineteenth-century architecture, the history and theory of classical architecture, public sculpture, and Edith Wharton, and he was scheduled to deliver the keynote lecture at the Edith Wharton Society Conference in June 2020.
Sponsors:
The ICAA would like to thank our Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education courses, Uberto Construction.

[@aaronepstein4906]

This two-part series has been so wonderful. Francis Morrone is erudite, passionate, and engaging; he really and deeply knows the subject and communicates it so well. Thank you so much for making these talks public.

[@user-or9fs4sb5e]

Love the lection in Roman architecture. Sooo interesting and inspiring. Love the slides !!!!!!!!!!!Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!

[@janesmith3867]

Terrific! Thank you for posting this publicly. Great stuff. Not a classicist, no classical education, just a fascinated onlooker. I had not heard of a rostral column, they are strange objects indeed. Now I know what to look out for!

[@emilywang6114]

Athens is such a great city which deserves further study cause it affects the whole World not only in architecture but also other aspects.

[@lt4954]

Thank you for your empathy with all us who of this know less (for memorising a path).

[@mechailreydon3784]

The illustrations and images are great. I loved how easy to follow yet informing this was!

[@paperpalacequeen]

The best lecture I have ever encountered on this topic....Incredible slides....Perfection!

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Wow, great video, nice array of buildings pictures. I really enjoyed the back and forth between the antique and how it's used in renaissance, 19th and modern classical architecture. Presenter being self-critical made him likable and approachable unlike most presenters especially if they're academics then they're usually arrogant (architecture historians).

[@Clemeaux_]

Thank you so much for this, really enjoyed it!

[@pcatful]

I hope that you can do the Roman Byzantine Architecture lecture. This was GREAT!

[@issustaita]

Thank you. I enjoyed it very much.

[@evilqtip7098]

Excellent Video well done

[@NoOne-zo8xr]

Great video. I feel so foolish, I'd never put Etruscan and Tuscan together before.

[@banditcats6630]

Chapeau!!!

[@MacedonianGrace]

Excellent lots of the Macedonian architecture is in the mix too . Something to take into account

[@alexos8741]

The Europeans (Greece and Italy) did a great job in their architecture, techniques etc. So much so that even the Germanic cultures (Germany, England, Switzerland, etc.) feel somehow part of that cultural sphere, even when they did not participate in its development other than as slaves.

[@jstantongood5474]

In Italian, the letter G in Gi or Ge sounds like the G in gee wiz. C in Ci or Ce sounds like Ch in cheese.

[@bluefinster6209]

Love your video but I don't like looking up your nosrils. Can you adjust your camera?

[@VictorLepanto]

THAT IS THE GREAT TRUTH OF THESE! They are a language of design, they create a kind of dialogue b/t us & history. They speak in some way to the buildings of old. Those invoke such images communicate w/ the public which encounters them & invoke sentiments in the that public. It is rather like smiling & waving in a friendly way to someone on the street. Modernists are vandals, they are rather like autistic people in a way, incapable of connecting easily w/ others. Using poles to prop up buildings is really one of the 1st things we did when we built for ourselves shelters. Giving them a typical standard design was a natural development. We as humans need to connect to our environment, history & civilization. By refusing to acknowledge this, modernists refuse to acknowledge & connect w/ others.

[@qutaibaabumatar6015]

ableist and also doesnt understand artistic subjectivity, pick a struggle

[@774Rob]

@@qutaibaabumatar6015 'Ableist' is definitely a combat indicator that you are dealing with a woke tosser.

[@qutaibaabumatar6015]

@@774Rob since when did empathy become a bad thing, ugh. white moment

[@774Rob]

@@qutaibaabumatar6015 Racist too.

[@vvatsindicate]

Modernists, or postmodernist are destroyers because they are inferior. They can't hold a candle to great art of the past because they aren't connected by divine inspiration. Everything they touch is ugly and soulless because they reflect what is inside of them. And they call art subjective to feel better about themselves. It's easier to destroy than it is to create.

[@jerryeasley945]

Caementicum is a misspelling of caementicium.

[@inkpen9547]

👍👍!

[@tomharvey6961]

anybody else seeing the subtitles 38 seconds after hearing the words?

[@jstantongood5474]

At 46:15 the photo of the ruins of Martis ultor could have been much better.

[@TheGerogero]

The angle of the background gives the impression that Mr. Morrone is lying on the floor.

[@InterstateTravelerCo]

😯🧐😯

[@Rytherian]

Im watching this so i can build a proper roman city in minecraft xD

[@Nighthawk799]

Some people just don't have the gift of communicatio.

[@remigofflo179]

1988 GRÈCE ROME MARC ANTHONY MARK ANTHONY ROMAN EMPIRE

[@remigofflo179]

1988 GRÈCE ROME MARC ANTHONY MARK ANTHONY FRÈRE JULES REMI GOFFLO CÉSAR ROMAN EMPIRE

[@jayneblakemore8698]

Uib

[@campcreekhill8933]

I think you maybe wrong

[@Alex-jd2yx]

Romans stole Greek culture although there genetics are probably the same they weren’t Greek it took romans a long time to actually get Greek fashion and architecture right eventually adding addition intrigue to the culture as well lol

[@Alex-jd2yx]

Basically there budget Greeks for quite some time but with a decent senate they seemed reasonably democratic enough compared with the Athenians

[@histguy101]

Rome seems to have been part of the Greek cultural sphere since its founding, even if it was primitive for a long time.

[@kaloarepo288]

@@histguy101 Actually the great Greek philosopher Aristotle when he heard that the city of Rome had fallen to the Gauls in about 300BC thought that Rome was a Greek city in Italy!

[@ivanjimenez8868]

Looks just like the buildings in San Francisco & Washington DC, yet we’re told to believe that a bunch of cowboys on horse and carriage built these enormous buildings haha..Propaganda at its finest

[@ulsd]

lol what?

[@histguy101]

Who told you cowboys on horse and carriage built Washington D.C.?!

[@ivanjimenez8868]

@@histguy101 San Francisco