HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE, AND "NOT AT ALL"

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci

History always refer back to the previous and remaining in the past. In architecture, what we see in buildings nowadays, developed from the past and use history as a source. Architects use history in their work which appear in their contemporary context. Renaissance architecture like Filippo Brunelleschi may be used history direcly for his architecture but in the opposite way, some architect is "not at all" in the the use of history like Le Corbusier. 


Filippo Brunelleschi is an Italian Renaissance architect that practiced on Classical Roman architecture and studying about theories and the elements of classical architecture. He got inspiration from ancient Roman authors like Leonado Da Vinci, especially "Vitruvius" which later established new rules and theory of proportion and symmetry according to human proportions. Anyway, Brunelleschi did not create any new forms of architecture, he just borrow and use history of Classical architecture for his work but with higher perform of engineering method and construction. On the other side, modernism architects like Le Corbusier has "Starting from zero", in which he get rid out of the history and creating his own rules of architecture. As you can see from Le Corbusier's work, his architecture intruduced "Geometry" , new form, pureness, simplicity, with new materials also theory of "Golden Ratio".

Golden Ratio by Le Corbusier

However, I think each architects have different style of how they got inspiration from. Some uses the past and create present, some might create their own theory and rules. Different style and different design of architect is beautiful in its own way. It's depends on how people look trough what architects were trying to convey trough their architecture.