Magnificence and secularism of architecture: Borromini and Guarini

Two architects that has remarked the form and no certainly the principal function of build, in fact Francesco Borromini(1599-1667) and Camillo Guarino Guarini(1624-1683) are two architects that has used and abused the geometry, they have built alone to the architecture, expressed forms that were secular because every costumer was an through to expression and built of form, that has nature and method very different from Renaissance; it isn’t rational and aseptic but life and irregular, uses the geometry and it gives life to other forms, architecture is necessary to forms that can express, every object of architecture can become other. The drawings of Guarini are a clear examples of these play of geometry(Figs.1-2) Drawings of architecture civil and ecclesiastical, is a collection and it has gathered drawings and one is very adherent to particular that I have now expressed, use of geometry that can modify same form; a tympanum can become right (Fig.1) or strange(Fig.2), because a column can be very right(Fig.1) or become very irregular(Fig.2), naturally this second form is from Bernini(Figs.3-6). An use very irregular of geometry is took from Guarini by Borromini and saint Ivo to Sapienza(Figs.7-13a), where Borromini used geometry with a freedom very marked; he conceives the freedom of forms and used same geometry of renaissance with other method; same think of Guarini(Figs.14-17). Two architects that have used forms and drama of forms with same spirit and have used architecture to forms, then different forms, then Guarini said: “The symmetries of architecture can between them be different forms".

Alessandro Lusana     

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