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46 Cards in this Set
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Bishop's Palace
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Nicolas John Clayton
Embodies toughness & richness. Eclectic like the people of Galveston. Was a rich city |
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Foam House
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Charles Harker
Austin's rebellious "hippy era" |
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The Parthenon
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Athens, unknown
Had to rebuild city, love of precision/order/beauty/proportion.Depicted victory |
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St. Peter's
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Bramante, Sangallo, Michaelangelo, Della Porta, Maderno, Bernini, et. al
Religion and Cathoic church, architects trying to outdo each outer. Invested by political/religious/economic power |
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San Antonio Library
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Ricardo Legorreta
Reflects Latin American roots; library is a community |
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Gut Garkau Farm
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Hugo Haering
Each section had its own function / expression. Thought out very carefully |
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Barcelona Pavilion
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Mies van der Rohe
German pavilion, exhibit space |
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Farnsworth House
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Mies van der Rohe
Thin and light steel |
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New State Chancellery
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Albert Speer
Hitler's headquarters |
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Chartres Cathedral
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Unknown, France
beauty, religion, revering Virgin Mary |
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Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Le Vau,
(Le Notre and Le Brun) Power: Louis XIV put Nicolas in jail & takes home |
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Taj Mahal
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Grief and love of death of wife Mutar Mahal |
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Sydney Opera House
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Jorn Utzon
Patriotism, emblem for country |
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Chapel Ronchamps
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Le Corbusier
Reiterate a spiritual place after WWII |
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Villa Rotunda
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Palladio
Order: spheres and squares, mathematical |
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Casa Rotunda
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Stabio, Switzerland
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Bryn Mawr College Dormitory
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Louis Kahn
Logical place for tough, smart girls |
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S. Carlo alla Quattro Fontane
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Borromini
Intersection of two streets, complexity through building, should it be a facade or object? |
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Denver Museum of Art
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Daniel Libeskind
You're in control, confusing, no clear way through museum |
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S. Andrea
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Alberti
Made for intellect, not decoration. Between building with walls/arches, or columns/tears, trying to marry the two |
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Schroeder Huose
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Gerritt Rietveld
One of first contemporary buildings; steel and concrete |
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Centre Pompideau
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Piano and Rogers
About technology |
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Austin City Plan
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Edwin Waller
Capitol hill view, grid 14X14, determined by bluffs and hills N-S streets --> rivers E-W streets --> trees |
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Savannah City Plan
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James Oglethorpe
Build people into community Housing jailed people for dumb crimes |
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Central Beheer Offices
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Herman Hertzberg
Big corporation into small units / communities |
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Sarabhai Residence
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Le Corbusier
For large indian family |
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Kimball Art Museum
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Louis Kahn
Vaults, intermisseion, vault Intimacy of room Interstitial space --> ductwork |
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Modern Art Museum
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Tadeo Ando
Vaults with larger rectangles |
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Pyramids of Giza
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Slaves
Mysticism 5:8 ratio |
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Designs for Chaux
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Claude Ledoux
Utopian city around circular central square where salt was made |
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Stockholm Library
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Gunnar Asplund
Prestige, enter through exact center, geometry > functionability |
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Guggenheim Museum
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Frank Lloyd Wright
For modern art, bold geometrics, spiral. Curvilinear building in rectilinear city |
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U.S. Pavilion Expo
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Buckminster Fuller
Makes sense Sophisticated, spce program inside |
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Houses
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Peter Eisenman
Puzzle, squares divided in several ways, grid by numbers |
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Capitol Buildings
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Louis Khan
Mysticism, iconic, makes sense, puzzle, prestige |
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Zollverein School of Design
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Kazuyo Sejima
Iconic, windows are perfect square, iconic focal element |
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Wat Arun / Royal Palace
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Bangkok, Thailand
Shaped by water and fluidity of boats, defined by gravity (large at bottom, light top), physiognomy - human shapes |
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Casa Mila
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Antonio Guadi
Shapes made by gravity, coastal like city of Barcelona, repetition of waves, the way people use shape |
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TWA Terminal
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Eero Saarinen
Defies gravity, shape of bird or dragon, made of concrete |
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Dipoli Student Union
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Reia Pietila
Inspired by granite boulders, birch trees, high canopy of green leaves (forest) |
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Guggenheim Museum
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Frank Gehry
Fishing economy, reflects water, scaly surface |
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Disney Concert Hall
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Frank Gehry
Some rectilinear parts, expressing shapes/forms of activities, spacial experience |
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Phaeno Science Center
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Zaha Hadid
Elevated so people could keep crossing under |
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St. Ignatius Chapel
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Steven Holl
LIght shape and space, tubes of color, intellectual |
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Jeswish Museum
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Daniel Libeskind
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Museum of Contemporary Art of XXI Century
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Kazuyo Sejima
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