19th Century Arc

The Dilemma of Style In the Nineteenth Century and How It Was Addressed Sebastian Devonshire Architecture, since large-scale construction began, has always been a means for establishments to represent and emanate the style and image that they wished to convey. Be they for government, the monarchy, religion, industry or for wealthy individuals, the buildings would reflect a combination of what the commission outlined, and what the architect codified within his or her own technique and …

…d with a dilemma was not necessarily the issue. Social, political and industrial changes of that period demanded innovation and change in the method and style used to produce constructions of the era. The learned architects of this time were not presented with a dilemma as more of a choice of which techniques or style of revivals should be implemented, and the choices made were strongly dictated by common opinion and social and industrial change.