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77 Cards in this Set
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Fagu Shoe-Last Factory
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-Alfred, Germany
-1911 -Rectangular with windows on the corner -Cantilevered walls with glass on most of them |
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A.E.G. Turbine Factory
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-Berlin, Germany
-1908 -Rectangular with a semicircle on top |
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Bauhaus Buliding
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-Dessau, Germany
-1925 -A school -Glass and steel with reinforced concrete -Came up with new ideas of modernism |
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Guggenheim Museum
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-New York, NY
-1960 -concrete spiral that spiraled downward so people looking at the art didnt get tired |
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S.C. Johnson & Son, Administrative Building and Research Tower
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-Racine, WI
-1940 -Reinforced concrete columns and floor slabs with brick and glass tubing windows -Cantilevered floors |
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Talesin West
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-Scottsdale, AZ
-1940 -Desert rubble wall construction -Franki Lloyd Wright lived there in his later years |
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Falling Water
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-Bear Run, PA
-1936 -Field stone bearing walls, reinforced concrete decks and beams -Cantilevered from live rock |
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Price Tower
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-Bartlesville, OK
-1950 -Cantilevered like a tree -Used diamonds for modules on the floor plan -Tall building |
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Jacobs House
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-Madison, WI
-1936 -Was created by Wright to be a plan for more houses all over America -The side by the streed was very plain and had no windows -Had hot water heating in the floors |
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Broadacre City
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-Project for the ideal city
-1936 -Planned to decentralize the urban cities -> was anti-urban -Set a vision for a new America |
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Unity Temple
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-Oak Park, IL
-1905 -Church - made symmetricle |
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Larkin Office Building
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-Buffalo, NY
-Steel frame with brick top -Corner stair towers |
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Parson Capon House
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-Topsfield, MA
-1683 -Big Fireplace in the middle to heat the house |
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Robie House
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-Chicago, IL
-1908 -Very long and rectangular -Urban residence with cantilevered roof -Brick bearing walls -Picturesque circulation- not symmetricle |
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Willits House
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-Highland Park, IL
-1902 -Suburban Residence -All colored glass -Casement windows that open out -Picturesque circulation - not symmetricle |
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National Farmers' Bank
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-Owatonna, MN
-1906 -Very modern - went against the traditional design for a bank -Steel, brick, glazed terra cotta |
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Tribune Tower
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-Chicago, IL
-1925 -Designed for competition -Gothic design with buttresses at the top -Very tall building |
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Reliance Buliding
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-Chicago, IL
-1895 -Chicago school -Used the chicago window -Had terra cotta over the steel to fire protect it and decorate it at the same time |
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Monadnock Block
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-Chicago, IL
-1890 -Brick, iron and glass -Not steel frame = load bearing -walls were 3ft thick at the bottom |
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Home Insurance Building
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-Chicago, IL
-1885 -Steel frame with rusticated bricks at the bottom |
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Equitable Building
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-New York City, NY
-1870 -Classical design - made it look longer than it was tall but it was actually 10 stories tall -Exterior bearing walls -Had elevators |
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Wainwright Building
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-St. Louis, MO
-1890 -Office building -1st tall building in the world -Symmetricle ornamental entrance |
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Wright House
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-Oak Park, IL
-1889 -Suburban house in the picuresque design |
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Isaac Bell House
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-Newport, Rhode Island
-1881 -Summer home with a big veranda that did not actually have the entrance to the house in the front like one would expect |
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Leyswood
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-Sussex County, England
-1868 -Country estate -Looks like it is growing out of a cliff -Had a central courtyard, but it was not symmetricle -Looks somewhat like a castle |
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The Red House
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-Bexley Heath, England
-1859 -Country residence -Implemented hand crafts -Organic -Had different juts out of the house |
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Blaise Hamlet
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-Nr. Bristol, England
-1810 -Very rounded roofs -> looks a bit like a tree house -Retirement cottages |
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Eiffel Tower
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-Paris France
-1889 -Inverted, two-hinged, arched trusses -Had elevators to the top where there was an apartment of the designer |
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Galerie Des Machines
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-Paris, France
-1889 -Housed an exhibition of heavy industrial machinery as a part of the world's fair -Steel and Glass -Very big and had arched trusses and a very classical entrance |
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Haughwout Store
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-New York City, NY
-1856 -1st Building to have passenger elevators -All iron but looks like stone -Like Palazzo Farnese -Had domed windows |
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Seagram Building
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-New York, NY
-1954 -Very tall building -Lifted off the ground |
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860-880 Lakeshore Dr
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-Chicago, IL
-1951 -Tall buidlings connected and lifted off the ground -Steel frame using universal space |
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Farnsworth House
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-Plano, IL
-1946 -Single Family House -Lifted off the ground and surrounded by windows |
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Crown Hall
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-IIT - Chicago, IL
-1952 -Used universal space subdivided with non-bearing walls -Had large windows |
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Illinois Institute of Technology
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-Chicago, IL
-1939 -Subdivided exterior with large windows |
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Barcelona Pavilion
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-Barcelona, Spain
-1929 -A national exhibit at an international fair -Only had planes, no individual rooms -Handcrafted aspect -> different than the Bauhaus |
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University Museum
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-Oxford, England
-1855 -Entirely Iron and Glass on the inside - brick exterior -Looks like a large castle |
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Bibliotheque Ste-Genevieve
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-Paris, France
-1850 -Housed a large research library and reading room -Had interior metal arches -Large domed windows and door openings |
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Conservatory
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-Chatsworth, England
-1837 -Refracted Light differently -Looked like a domed greenhouse -Used post and lintel and wooden arches |
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Crystal Palace
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-London, England
-1851 -Housed the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all nations -Looked like a pyramidal greenhouse -Cast iron, wrought iron, glass and wood -Had a plan like a Basilica |
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Field Museum of Natural History
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-Chicago, IL
-1911 -Large columns in the front middle |
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Pennsylvania Station
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-New York, NY
-1910 -Imitated the Baths of Caracalla -Steel and glass covered train shed -Large domed windows on the top level |
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Opera
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-Paris, France
-1861 -Domed opera house with rectangular doors and pedimented windows on top |
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Burnham's Plan for Chicago
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-1909
-Had a circular center with the city splitting up from there -Went all the way up to the lake with only a small grassy area around the lake |
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World's Columbian Exposition
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-Chicago, IL
-1893 -International fair to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America -Groups of buildings around bodies of water -Classical in style |
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Plan of Washington DC
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-1792
-Comparable to Versailles -Had diamond shaped planning with major intersections in multiple places |
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Arc De Triomphe de l'Etoile
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-Paris, France
-1806 -Monument of the French Empire -Very huge Arc for Napolean Bonaparte |
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Versailles Palace
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-Near Paris, France
-1600-1700 -French Garden Planning -No corridors, just openings in rooms -The streets split away from the palace in 3 directions |
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S. Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane
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-Rome
-1634 -Church dedicated to St. Charles -On a corner - very ornate -Exhibits Baroque features |
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The Piazza of St. Peter's
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-Vatican City, Rome
-1450 -Crow's foot plan with 3 main streets |
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Campidiglio
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-Rome, Italy
-1540 -Urban space serving the civic govt in Rome -Site of palaces and public ceremonial functions -Overlooking the Roman Forum -Irregular dispositions of buildings -Statue of Marcus Aurelius in the center -Facade with Giant Order columns |
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Monticello
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-Near Charlottesville, VA
-1800 -Residence of Thomas Jefferson -Two main facades with temple fronts -Octagonal dome on top -Planning for domestic convenience and comfort |
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Chiswick House
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-Middlesex, England
-1725 -Temple looking country residence -Square plan with octagonal central space and dome -Used paladian windows in the back -2 Stairways to the front entrance |
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Villa Rotonda
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-Near Vicenza Italy
-1570 -Country residence in the shape of a Temple -Bearing walls with post and lintel, arches and a dome -Based off the Pantheon |
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Farnese Palace
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-Rome, Italy
-1590 -Palatial residence -Square block of rooms around a central courtyard rising through 3 levels -Facade with three levels, a large cornice, and quoins on the corners -Third story has pedimented windows |
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Saint Peter's Basilica
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-Vatican City, Rome, Italy
-1450 -Piazza with a Greek cross plan to commemorate the burial place of St. Peter -Colossal Columns and a double shell dome |
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Tempietto at San Pietro
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-Rome, Italy
-1500 -Chapel to commemorate the site of St. Peter's Martyrdom -Post and lintel dome -Circular colonnade of Tuscan columns |
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Rucellai Palace
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-Florence, Italy
-1461 -Urban residence -Three stories with different types of columns on each level - like the Colosseum -Pilasters and cornices at three levels and bifora |
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Medici Palace
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-Florence, Italy
-1450 -Facade in three levels with large cornice -Rusticated masonry at the base with large arches |
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Palazzo Vecchio
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-Florence, Italy
-1300 -Town Hall -Facade built of rusticated masonry and biforia -Looks like a castle with a tower |
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San Lorenzo
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-Florence, Italy
-1420 -Parish and Monastery Church -Transeptal Basilica with aisles, clerestory, and chapels -Followed the example of ancient Roman basilicas |
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Loggia Dei Lanzi
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-Florence, Italy
-1380 -Covered walkway with three arches |
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Santa Maria Novella
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-Florence, Italy
-1300 -Dominican Church dedicated to the Virgin Mary -4-part ribbed vaults, without galleries or clerestory -In the shape of a T |
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Ospedale Degli Innocenti
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-Florence, Italy
-1420 -An orphanage or founding hospital -Cross axial arcade with pedimented windows on top -Loggia in the composite order |
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Dom-ino House
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-1914
-Project for a prefabricated house |
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Citrohan House
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-1922
-Project for a standard house type -Stood on piloti -Used the 5 components of Le Corbusier . Lifted off the ground . Steel or concrete frame . flat roof for gardern . curtain walls . free plan |
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Villa Savoye
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-Poissy, France
-1930 -Steel, reinforced concrete, plaster and glass -Looked like a ship -Countryside residence -Stood on piloti -Had very thin and long windows |
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Unite D'Habitation
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-Marseilles, France
-1950 -Elevated on piloti -Apartments each two stories high -Had a roof terrace with recreational facilities -Brise-Soleil -Fifth floor had shops and restuarants -Had everything = abstract function |
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Chapel of Notre-Dame-Du-Haut
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-Ronchamp, France
-1950 -Pilgrimage church -stone, gunite, and plaster -Used reinforced concrete -Lit from the top with roof monitors -Had an outdoor chapel |
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Piazza D'Italia
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-New Orleans, LA
-1980 -Open-air plaza -Based off Las Vegas style Italy -Very colorful |
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Children's Museum
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-Houston, TX
-1995 -Childrens Museum and educational institution -Had very large pillars and was very colorful -Had caryakids instead of columns -> played on the history of architecture |
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New State Gallery
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-Stuttgart, Germany
-1980 -Theater and gallery space addition to existing museum -Glazed stone finish -Played on the history of architecture |
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Institut Du Monde Arabe
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-Paris, France
-1985 -Library and Research center -Very modern, metal and glass - curved -Used islamic patterns -> high tech, opened and closed depending on exterior light |
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Wexner Center
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-Columbus, OH
-1990 -Very rectangular boxes -Art Gallery and Library -Seemed to have a pathway in between the buildings |
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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-Los Angeles, CA
-1990 -Art museum, archive and research center -Had rounded features on the top |
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Guggenheim Museum
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-Bilbao, Spain
-1995 -Art Museum -Very ornate metal detail on the outside -Sketched it in arch 171 -Had a metal fencing on it on the outside |
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Milwaukee Art Museum, Addition
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-Milwaukee, WI
-2001 -art museum -Very big ornamented metal work on the top in white -Looked like a bird on the top of it with a small building below |