On one hand we have a society which is discovering science, which is living many changes, which has to accept the earth is definitely not plan but a sphere, and it goes around the sun, that out there: there is an amazing universe, which makes men be a small, minimum part of it.
And after the Renaissance this message sent many people in crisis; on the other hand the man is, somehow at the center of the Earth, and that sound quite comforting.
So it is a moment of great change that goes hand by hand with the scientific revolution, the Church crisis, and the conflict with the monarchs and mainly the Ancient Regime in France.
So the reaction to all this new stuff going on, is the radical but initially respectful divorce of FEITH and RATIO.
Consequentially art and architecture are not meant to be anymore the research of an unknown and imaginary perfection, given from the classical orders, proportion and neatness, but the acceptance of some how imperfection.
This ‘imperfection’, related to rationalism, gives birth to a ‘messy’, somehow, architecture. Which looks forward to breaking all those rules that had been marking all the past buildings. They aim to represent the REAL.
This research of reality becomes RADICAL, and this emerges in the exasperation of this reaction, exasperation of weird shapes, which become a TRAGICOMIC expression of feelings.
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