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102 Cards in this Set
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Altes Museum (1830)
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-one of the first museum
-Pantheon like Rotunda -enfilade rooms: name derived from the military, move in lines in formation of troops |
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The pergamon Museum
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-Berlin
-Represented Hellenistic high point for Germans -Artifact of the pergamon was taken from turkey and placed in a museum as a German way of laying claim to history -Architect: Schinkel |
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Old National Gallery
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-Berlin
-Schinkel -stately, monumental roman expression |
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Deutsche Werkbuund
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-major turbine factory
-peter Behrens: Named corporate architect of large german electric company -recalling classical architecture in a new way -repressed columns convery solemnity -transitioning to modern ideals but referencing classicism |
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Farben Works
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-provided armaments for Germany in Worl War 2
-Peter Behrens -mix of art deco and gothic architecture -Art deco: begins appearing style which originates in France;machine aestheric;sharp edges, chevrons |
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Machine Hall
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-Peter behrens
-Schubart writes Glass architecture promoting use of glass -pusgh for improvements of modern conditions -use of glass for comfort of workers |
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Fagus Factory
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-temple to work/monument to efficiency
-Walter -columns -elevated -also flat roof and gless corners -clock at door symbolizes progress |
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Werkbund in Cologne
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-model school for Bauhaus
-architect: Gropius -idea of front door/single entrance because modern architecture is based on sequence of spaces -large panes of glass enw technology |
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Einstein Tower
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-Potsdam
-Erich Mendelson -Classic Expressionist architecture |
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Bauhaus
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-Gropius
-name reference to gothic cathedral builders -if you study all the materials, you will be an architect -Mies Van Der Rohe promotes art in study of architecture -design seperates function/program -flat roof, lack of history, emphasis on space, program and function |
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Gropius House
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Seperate House for Bauhaus teachers
-Architect: Walter Gropius -Made out of wood, not industrial material -Gropius is completely obvious to history and context |
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Barcelona Pavilion
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-Exposition building for Germany to show excellence in design
-towen down after exhibition but later rebuilt by spanish government -Mies Van der Rohe -Domno like system -ability to wander in and out of building -materials chosen are best quality -free flowing interior space |
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Tugendhat House
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-Mies Van der Rohe
-cruciform columns -Linoleum on ground, rosewood partitions -free plan -color scheme: white and blue velvet curtains -inocuous entrance |
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Crown Hall IIT
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-School
-Mies Van der Rohe -Idea that all the classes should mix |
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Museum Land
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Island near Berlin that contains five world renowned museums: Altes, Neues, old national gallery, Bode, and Pergamon museums
-Neues museum: the ruins were left to intact to serve as a reminder of what happend to Berlin |
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The English House
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-German book describing the english formula for success
-concluded that teh economic flaw of the english was their inability to produce high quality on a mass scale -eduction was the key to power |
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Linz Museum of Art
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Contained bad art and copies of famous works commised by hitler
-adolf hitler -return to classicism, the rfacist saw weinar era modernism as liberal and dangerous |
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De stijl
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fauvism: Movement in 2d visual art; abstraction based in reality
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Der Blaue Reiter
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-Wassily Kandisnky:expressionist.
-took greatest leap away from realism after fauvism -detached from realism/representation |
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At work/on the land
red tree and gray tree |
piet mondrain part of de stijl movement at the beginning
-shows progression to abstraction. -background and foreground start to collapse into each other |
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Rietveld Joint
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used in red, blue chair
-stripped down to bare essentials of chair, ifinite lines emphasize individuality as part of larger purpose -Archtiect: Gerrit Reitveld -ideas of junction, union, individuality, celebrating |
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Schroder House
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-collaboration between architect and his client, a widow with children
-Reitveld -lots of light -sliding partitions give flexibility -epitome of De stijle building -individuality coexisting with the whole |
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Robie House
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Enormous influence on de stijl
-frank lloyd wright -similar ideas to reitveld -units have individual importance but are all independent |
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Villa Henny
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-Robert Vant Hoff help subsidize publications of De stijl
-work done to do the building is as important as the building itself -flat roof -articulation of horizontal plane -deep shadows on vertical planes |
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Hotel De Dubbele Sleutel
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-The double key
-A remodel -Jan Wils -interior spaces flow into one another within the boundaries expression of Wrightian ideals |
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Cricket Clubhouse for 1928 olympic games
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-Architect: Jan Wils
-Use asymetry, which wils believed came from sophisticated minds |
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Stadium for 1929 olympic games in amserdam
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-stadium: avant grade designer commissioned to do this building meant to be a symbol for the country
-symmetry originates in nature, and the further you go away from nature the more asymetry occurs, symmetry is natural and simplistic |
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Daal en Berg Estate
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-low income housing designed around idea of common outdoor plaza spaces
-JPP oud: from netherlands, influenced by Berlage -human scale |
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Spangen Blcok 1 and Tussendijken Housing
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-more housing projects
-Oud -small details reinforce soul of individual despite severe facade project |
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cafe de unie
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-very low income housing
-rotterdam -commercial on first floow, residential on second -Oud -takes up several city blocks -different programs given different individual columes -used facade as a form of advertisement |
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Kiefhoeck Housing
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-low income housing in Rotterdam
-Oud -existance minimum: goal of giving the highest quality of living experience for the very least possible money -small things such as moving utilities away from private areas improved quality of life |
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composition 1
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-take representation to abstraction and experiments with dynamics and depth
-a lot of theoretical, experimental work dealing with equivalent forms with their own identities working for a common purpose |
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Model Maison d Artiste
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van doesburg with can eesteren
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Private Villa
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-never built
-van doesburg with can eesteren -rhythm -pushing and pulling of masses -massive:planes rythm: pushing and pulling |
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shopping arcade with Bar-restaurant
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-multi purpose
-never built -van doesburg and can eestern -rythmic -recogntion of corner condition |
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shopping arcade with bar restraunt
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-multi purpose
-never built |
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Laubette
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-destroyed by fire in francoprussian war and only facade remained, but was later rebuilt
-jacques-francouse blondel -integration of light into a pattern |
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Villa At Chaux for Paris
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-city plan
-proposed for paris to be demolished and replaced with high risers -corbusier |
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Domino system/the five points
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-corbusiers guiding construction plan
-corbusier -the grid, the free plan, the free elevation, the strip window, the roof |
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Citrohan House type
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-named after citroen car, the mass produced car for everybody
-production line archtiecture |
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Modular system
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-system for standard heights based on human scale
-corbusier |
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Pavillion d'Esprit Nouveaux
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corbusier
-includes a couple picassos -art deco influences |
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Villa Stein
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Garches
-corbusier -domino style |
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Villa Savoye
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Poissy, Paris
-one of the very most important buildings of the 20th century -Corbusier -classic view of 5 points of style |
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Unite d Habitation
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Marselle, France
-corbusier commissioned by government to help sove problem of housing after WWII -uniform solution -scavenged for materials which were short in supply -leads to brutalism |
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Ronchamp Cathedral
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on top of hill divorced from nature
-corbusier -looks like a mess of concrete, but is steel with facade of stucco -inside is result of outside plan is generator of form -different elevations from all around -building is object of field |
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La Tourette
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Monastery Hotel
-corbusier -intended to be replicated -play on vault -negative from instead of positive formwork |
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Maisons Jaol
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Monol Style
Corbusier -intended to be replicated -play on vault -negative form instead of positive formwork |
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Chandigarh/work in INdia
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-Sarabhai House
-parliament building: huge cone which sticks up to stain against mountain; cast concrete -shodan house: deep reccess to have shade, elevations address sun -Millowners headquarters in ahmedabad -Corbusier chosen to do master plan, desinged massive, scaled buildings to match mountain -de stijl colors -buildings address extreme india heat by acting as parasols -concrete in india not a good idea because it needs to be scraped periodically |
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Venice Hospital
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Never realized
-corbusier |
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Curutchet Hospital
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Corbusier
-plays with grid system |
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Carpenters Center
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Cambridge, Mass
-corbusier -procession around building |
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Secretariat
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-Corbusier
-Supremely bad with ventilation -arrogant gesture -ignorant of local conditions |
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Yale University art gallery
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Kahn
-G holmes Perkins: had a knack for hiring soon to be famous people -standard, generic modernism building -flat roof, white -concrete, steel, and glass |
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Richards Laboratory
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Chemistry Laboratories at Penn
-kahn -use of brick which is natural and old material -kahn had exhibition about this project in MOMA which put him on the map |
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Estherick House Fairmount Park
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Philadelphia
kahn -house shows how windows have many ways of operation (ex ventilation, shade, light filter, privacy, etc) |
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Mikvah Israel
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-Philadelphia
-Kahn -idea of congregtion in lower and upper sections -mystical about structure |
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Hurva
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-jerusalem
-kahn -awareness of contect, culture, history, thermal mass |
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First Unitarian Church
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-Rochester, Ny
-Kahn -ideal realization of form drawing -circular form like idea of mycenae -entrance reminiscent of Grank Lloyd Wright |
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Salk Institute
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-Salk and Sabin search for Polio cure
-university on one side, laboratories on other -Kahn -advised by Luis Barragan who said that architecture should be as a serious as the institute purpose, life and death situation |
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Kimbell Art Museum
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-Forth Worth, Texas
-Kahn -forcing visitors to take certain path -lets natural light into museum -mystical connectino to light |
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Exeter Library
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library for exeter school
-kahn -rationalist square building -philosophical library as building of learning -in depth study of program |
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Dhaka Assembly Building
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Bangladesh
-parliament building with mosque -kahn -marble and concrete -swiss cheese architecture |
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Leiter Building (1881), Home insurance Building (1885)
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-William Lebaron Jenney
-built buildings higher due to steel innovations -masonry, steel and terracotta tile replaced wood - |
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World Columbian exposition
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chicago 1893
-architectual firm in chicago wanted to create a classical style for america -daniel burnham creates unrealizewd city plan of chicago |
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monadnock chicago 1892
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burnham
-completely in brick -bearing wall building with relatively few openings -dark, massive, heavy; last gasp of traditional bearing wall structure in america |
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reliance building
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-chicago
-burnham and Root -Terracotta floors -spanned arches |
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The Rookery
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-political machinery of chicago headquarters
-burnham and root courtyard with glass and steel roof |
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wainwright building
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louis sullivan mentor and teacher to FLW modernist but also ornate
-held back horizontals and stressed verticals |
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Guaranty trust building
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Buffalo, Ny 1894
-sullivan -created intricate vegetal forms with terracotta |
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carson pirie scott building
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chicago
-adler and sullivan -understood street level -chicago window a solid pane of glass flanked by two more smaller windows which could be opened |
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Frank Lloys Wright Home and studio
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-oak park illinois
many additions as family grew -use of local materials -highly detailed -beautiful natural materials |
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Winslow House
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1983
chicago one of wrights first houses -wright -overhanging roof, long base running across middle ground all japanese ideas -beginning of praire style, which eliminates basement |
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Adler and Sullivan Auditorium building
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-Chicago
-opera house -wright and adler -Form Follows function -no superhouse details -wanted to get away from european traditions to define specifically american style |
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barcelona pavillion
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-exposition building for germany to world
-shows excellence in design -torn down after exhinition but later rebuilt by spanish government -barcelona chair -Mies Van der Rohe -Domino like system -ability to wander in and out of building -materials choosen are best quality -free flowing interior space |
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Tutendgadt house
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-another house specific chair
-van der rohe -cruciform columns -Linoleum on ground, rosewood partitions -free plan -color scheme white and blue velvet curtains -amazing luxury inside inocucous entrance |
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Crown hall IIT
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-school
-van der Rohe -idea that all the classes should mix |
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Farnsworth House
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-plano, illinois
-van der rohe -functional divisions of house can be moved, not so specific to program so gives building more longevity -modernist idea of truth and transparency so everything should be seen and exposed -raised to avoid flood plane |
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50 by 50 house
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-never built
-van der rohe -ideas of glass -completely exposed except for bathroom |
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Seagram building
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NYC
-seagram company headquarters -four seasons restraunt in lobby -van der rohe, advised by phillip johnson -predates farnsworth house -overlooks site below, like pavillion over garden -brick floor |
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Penzoil Building
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houston
-philip johnson -modernism on the ropes -tries to make it more sculptural |
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Vanna Venturi House
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Chestnut Hill, PA
-Robert Venturi: teacher at penn -changed tules for modernism entering age of media -plays with scale -postmodernism wanted to communicate with public -big front, unimportant back -broken gable reflects changing family dynamics |
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duck building
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venturi
-form doesnt have to follow function, form should follow message |
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At&T building
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-philip Johnson
-glass and steel building wrapped in stone -classical division in bade, middle and top |
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Transco Tower
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houston
philip johnson -glass used to look like conctrete or stone -blatantly ignores context and site |
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Benecceraf house
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-Michael graves: architect
-syntax -way to communicate with people to use architecture like a sentence -more sculptural forms blend into other forms |
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Hanehmann House
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Michael graves
-piano noble -palladian model flips walls to play with space play on corb |
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snyderman house
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graves
-uses colors to connect house to ground and sky |
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plocek House
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Graves
-classical divisions make it historically referencial |
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Human Headquarters
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Graves
starts semi classical tradition |
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Portland public services buildings
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graves
saved them on energy structually |
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disney, burbank
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graves
dwarfs as carytids |
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Wall House
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darien, conn
-john hejduk: major post modern theorist, also architect -all white -building as machine of garden |
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Douglas House
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-Hejduk
-same parti of entering top and having partitioned house -same metaphor as corb in villa savoye |
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new harmony athenaeum
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-place of gathering, forum
-indiana -utopian community -Hejduk |
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High Museum
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-Atlanta
-Hekduk -corb idea of appreciating form upon approach - |
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Guggenheim addition
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-additional exhibition space
-charles gwathmey -american reading of 5 points -instead of grid uses volumes and subtracts -balloon frame building take a certical structure and columns |
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museum fur Kunsthandwerk
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-frankfurt
-competition for museum -richard meier |
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Shirn Schultes
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-frankfurt
-meier -violent structure with no reference to context -intent to link cathedral at one side to building elevation, but doesnt work |
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sea ranch
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about beauty of vernacular architecure
-related to barns of local area -vertical siding which weathers according to sea salt |
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piazza d italia
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-new orleans
-moore -used colors associated with sicily -added humor to post modern lexicon |
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University of california, Kresge College
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-santa cruz
-moore -activated internal street -idea of the screen becomes an issue -breaking away skin of building and creating a screen wall, which can then be used for expression |
