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Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile 1806-1835 By Jean-François Thérèse Chalgrin Paris, France Notable Features: Streets radiate from round points, apart of the urban renewal of Paris. |
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Washington DC city plan Pierre Charles L'Enfant, 1791-92 |
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Chicago city plant and lakefront BY Daniel Burnham 1909 Notable Features: Never ended up being built this way. Too idealist to actually work out in a real way. Ultimately they did create a lot of green spaces. Inspired by french city planning. The lake ended up getting filled in and some elements were taken from the original layout. |
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Strawberry Hill By Horace Walpole 1748 Twickenham Notable Features: Plaster Fan ceiling |
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Holkham Hall William Kent 1734 Norfolk, England Notable Features: Clean palladio style, not associated with the pope, protestant. Classical Tample front porch. Palladian windows Not extremely Opulent
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The Circus(1754) and The Royal Crescent(1767-75) By John Wood I and John Wood II Bath, England Notable features: The circus just means the round area. Columns represent the end of each house. Middle class housing using fancy forms. |
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Petit Trainon By Ange-Jacques Gabriel 1762-68 Versailles, France Notable Features: Neo-classical style. Represents an unadulterated classical minimalist style. A reaction against the anti-classical frivolous Rococo style. Private retreat for a mistress of louis the 15th. Elevated space, sides handled with Pilasters. Small attic story windows, not a notable Piano Nobile. Straightforward simplicity, refreshing to many. |
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Project for the Royal Library Étienne-Louis Boullée 1785 Paris, France Notable Features: Never Built, Classical language and forms. Large Blank wall, classical cornice at top and frieze of swags. Classical statues of atlas, 2 inscriptions on entrance. So minimalist for 18th century architecture. Massive apse with a half dome. Gives a sense of eternity, and goes on forever. |
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Project for the Temple of Reason Étienne-Louis Boullée 1793-4 Paris, France Notable Features: Intimidating totalitarian feeling to his buildings. |
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Royal Saltworks, Claude-Nicholas LeDoux 1785-89 Arc-de-Senans Notable Features: Minimal style. Changes the shaft by using circular disks and square disks. |
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The Barrières Claude-Nicholas LeDoux 1785-89 Paris Notable Features: Pared columns, doric entablature at the top of the buildings. Unconventional shape, some rustication. |
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Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Henri Labrouste 1843-50 Paris Notable Features: Double barrel vaulted hall, cast iron structure, sheet metal roofing. the space resembles a birdcage. Materials like cast iron doesn't need to be so thick, and this is why it looks so delicate, like a metal cage. Outside is more traditional. |
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Crystal Palace Joseph Paxton 1851 London, England Notable Features: Joseph Paxton was a gardener, and a designer of green houses. Structural skeleton of cast iron tubes, and large anes of glass. 95% glass. Easily Manufacturable. Designed sort of like the shape of a classical basilica. 1851 feet long. the same as the year it was made. People did not want to call this building architecture. |
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Galerie des Machines By Dutert and Contamin 1889 Paris Notable Features: Built to hold new industrial machines. 1400 feet long, height 148 feet high. No central sprawl or intermediate supports indside, which had never been done before. |
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Eiffel Tower Gustave Eiffel 1889 Paris Notable Features: Democratic aspect to the building, anyone could go on it and was welcome to go on it. Arches were intended to reassure thepublic of its classical origins. Mixed reactions, so much taller than everything in paris, people thought it was an ugly blemish on the face of paris. Cast iron was strong in compression and other things. it was very modern at the time. |
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Red House Philip Webb 1859 Bexley Heath, England Notable Features: Medieval characteristics, asymmetrical form of the house. A casual attitude for symmetry like medieval buildings. Does not look like a Medieval but emplyed some of the concepts familiar to those living in such times. Designs furniture, and many of the d=textiles in the house, lots used ebonized wood. Arts and crafts style emphasizes simplicity in lines. The A&C's movement wasnt very available to those of he lower class bc everything was handmade and expensive, Causing th movement to never catch on. |
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Kedleston Hall 1759-65 By Robert Adam, James Paine, Matthew Brettingham Derbyshire Notable Features: Palladian style house. Temple front porch. Rustcated ground floor, tall piano nobile, and small attic floor with small square windows. Back has 4 columns, delicate swags, and a pronounced entablature. The back is a reference to Constantine's arch. Freestanding corinthian colmns inside the house. Niches with statues. Has "grisai" painitngs inside. |
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Cronkhill House 1802 By John Nash Shropshire Notable Features: Shallow sloped roofs, italian features, evokes the feel of an italian villa. First time someone designed a house to be asymmetrical, but it was also designed to be aesthetically asymmetrical. Outside of a greco-roman sensibility. |
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Royal Pavillion 1815-18 Remodeled by John Nash Brighton Notable Features: Similar looking to the Taj-Mahal. Cast iron metal skin with metal domes. All of the rooms are eclectic, all different rooms based on different posters. Many people thought the building was in poor taste, but the crown prince liked it. |
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Eastnor Castle 1812-15 Sir Robert Smirke Hereford and Worchester Notable Features: |
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Cragside House 1869-84 By Norman Shaw Northumberland Notable Features: Based on 15th century manor houses. Half timbering. Shaw studied former building styles and used them in revivals. Square wood paneling very popular at time time. Victorianesque fireplaces, an inglenook. Classical entablatures, and carvings on the inglenook. Taking the elizabthan style to a victorian extreme. |
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Gamble House 1908 Greene and Greene Pasadena California Notable Features: Entirely timber, shingled facade, shallow pitched roofs dramatic overhangs. Inspired by Japanese design, which is a simple beautiful line based style. Open interior spaces, one space flowing into the next. Stained glass windows have plants on it to evoke looking out into a garden like in japanese architetcure. |
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Frederick Robbie House 1909 Frank Lloyd Wright Chicago Notable Features: Prairie style. South side of Chicago. Thought of as the embodiment of Prairie design. House is asymmetrical and by 1909 asymmetry was though of as attractive in asymmetrical design. Relating of the design of he house to the flat prairies of illinois. Shallow roof pitch and used a cantilever roof. Use roman bricks (long and skinny). Bricks laid in a way to emphasize horizontality. Inner spaces flow to next spaces. |
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Project for Broadacre City 1936 Frank Lloyd Wright Notable Features: A rendering of an american utopian city, or what it should look like, he wanted it to be airy, not cramped. |
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Herbert Jacobs House 1936 Frank Lloyd Wright Madison Wisconsin |
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Falling Water 1936 Frank Lloyd Wright Bear Run Pennsylvania Notable Features: Waterfall going under his house. Has significant structure problems. Soft white color of most of the house with rusticated stones. |
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Equitable Life Assurance building 1868-70 NY Gilma, Kendall and Post Notable Features: 5 stories high, 130 feet high. |
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Home Insurance Building 1883-85 Chicago Wm. LeBaron Jenney (Demolished 1931) Notable Features: considered the first true sky scraper Rustication on bottom 2 floors, similar to an Italian palazzo. Jenney influential bc he trained manny younger famous architect, like louis sullivan. |
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Wainwright Building 1890-91 St.Louis Louis Sullivan Notable features: leafy decoration inspired by art Noveau, of his ornamenttion. Terra cotta brick. ornamentation between windows. Mass produced panels of ornamentation. |
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Auditorium Building 1887-89 Chicago Sullivan and Adler Notable features: At the time it was built it was the most complex building that had been built at the time. Imposing structure, overpwoering effect. Bottom exterior walls are load bearing walls made of brick, not exclusively a steel skeleton. Heavy rustication on bottom floors. Theater takes up majority of the building, series of suspeneded arch trusses. Front was a hotel and back was office building. Had many uses. |
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Rookery Building 1885-88 Chicago Burnham and Root Notable Features: Name comes from site being a very popular place for pigeons who hun out on top of the town hall that previously occupied the space. Romaneque, heavy architecture. Arabeque pattern in front door arch. Has pinnacles and turrets at top. |
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Monadnock Building 1884-92 Chicago Burnham and Root Notable Features: Not picturesque, not any decorations at all. Distinctive appearance although it is simple. About 16 floors, the walls were very thick on the first floor, so it has a small flare at the bottom on order to maximize the amount of weight the fist floor can take. Has extended windows. Finished when Root died. |
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Reliance Building 1889-91 Chicago Burnham and Co. Notable Features: Projecting polygonal bays. Mostly steel, no heavy stone or rustication. The facade is just glass and terra cotta. had the "Chicago bay window" |
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Carson Pirie Scott Store 1899-1904 Chicago Louis Sullivan Notable Features: Expanded to 12 floors. Striking rounded corner. Distinctive Sullivan floral designs on the bottom floor. |
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Marquette Building 1893-94 Chicago Holabird & Roche Notable Features: A lot of natural light within the space. Projecting vertical strips of wall. More modern because the didnt not use projecting bay windows. traditional in its decoration. |
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Tribune Tower 1922 Chicago Hood & Howells Notable Features: |
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Tribune Tower (2nd Place) 1922 Chicago Eliel Saarinen Notable Features: |
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Johnson Wax Tower 1947-50 Racine, WI F.L. Wright Notable Features: Core supports tower, floors are cantilevered out from the core. The foundations of the building go very deep. |
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Price Tower 1953-56 Bartlesville, OK F.L. Wright |
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Unite d'Habitation 1946-52 Marseilles Le corbusier Notable features: Self contained concrete town. Beginning of brutalist architecture. The idea is to play up the rough texture of the concrete finish. Building is lifted up on pilotes. Bright colors are used which give the building a less depressing feel. |
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860 N. Lakeshore Drive Apts 1951 Chicago Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Notable Features: Raised building on piloties, giving the first floor an elegant glass look. Was not allowed to show he structural frame, but showed steel columns between each window. Glass and steel continuous line. Climate control is not very good, buildings were too hot in summer and too cold in winter. |
