Baroque-ing the Rules

Architecture, like almost everything in the world, has a beginning and an end, but what defines the end of each architectural era or phrase? We have seen many times in architectural history that in order to start a new era, someone must have the guts to break the rule. And by breaking that rule, that person must also have enough companion or followers in order for the public or the majority of the people to accept him and start mind wars with the existing era. In order to have that many people believing him, the person must have enough reasoning to mess with people's logic. Baroque architects accomplished to win that war. They challenged the Renaissance's perfect symmetry and proportion and bend it to their appreciation. An element that the Baroque was very proud to present was the form of an oval. Just by extending two sides of the circle, the Baroque architects challenged hundreds of years of theory, but because of their logical and creative reasoning, they seem to persuade many people to believe them. Shortening their reasoning for using the oval would be that ovals create an axi line which leads to something else. It was like magic at that time, at least for me if I was in that period. People realized that by being perfect, or proportional and symmetrical, was not everything, but breaking the rules might create a whole new perspective in form. And it all comes back to perspective and point of view.

One can say Baroque is like Post Modernism or the other way around, but for me, Baroque architects seem  to be respecting the rules more than Post Modernist. Baroque architects bends the rules while Post Modernism architects does everything opposite of the rules. Baroque architects seem to be experimenting on what would happen if they distort the form, while Modernism architects breaks the form entirely.