Age of Enlightenment

The age of enlightenment is a stage after renaissance and baroque where we have what we call "rebirth" in architecture and then that kind of architecture had been modified mainly through form and the use of material to be more "expressive". Above all, renaissance and baroque are based on human's belief, which has to do with god and sacred. But then, science came along and people focused more on "reason". This also affected architecture, the decorative elements were less emphasized. The architecture in this period seemed to communicate the function through form. In other words, the idea of "form follows function" seemed to appear.