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| 3 Reasons why we teach Architecture? |
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1. To familiarize you with the discipline of architecture.
2. Increase environmental awareness, experience and visual vocabulary.
3. Make you an advocate for architecture. |
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| What is it we expect from architecture? |
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1. Shelter
2. Climate Control
3. Usefulness
4. Beautiful
5. Meaning |
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| Definition of Architecture: |
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Is the physical embodiment of who we are as individuals and who we are collectively as a culture |
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Winston Churchill Before Parliment: |
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| "We shape our buildings, thereafter our buildings shape us." |
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4 Vaules/Sources
(to help design a building) |
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1. Personality - (personal traits)
2. Experiences - (in life & exposures)
3. Ideas of our time - (parents outside,
today digital world)
4. Judgement - (sit down with self and reflect) |
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1. Spiritual - design is a spiritual process
2. Beauty is relative
3. Each building has it's own unique expression
4. Function above all is essential |
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* Commodity: That a building must accommodate its program (Does the space react to your functional needs?)
* Firmness: That it must stand up to the natural elements, among them gravity (Sustainable, hot & cold inside)
* Delight: that it must be satisfying to the eye (beauty - the aesthetic quality of the building) |
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1. Balance 7. Line
2. Proportion 8. Color
3. Symmetry 9. Material
4. Light 10. Scale
5. Space 11. Rhythm
6. Shape 12. Texture |
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Experiencing Architecture - Rasmussen
Chapter I |
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*Architecture is a functional art that solves practical problems
*It creates a form for man to live in
*Architecture must blend with (unlike photo of Renaissance man on bicycle)
-Surroundings
-Time period
-People who designed it
*Best way to experience it is to live among it (boys playing ball against the church)
*Integrated form is more important than the details. |
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Experiencing Architecture - Rasmussen
Chapter II
Solids and Cavities in Architecture |
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*People give life to objects
*Architecture is the perception of cavities and solids
(Vase vs 2 profiles)
*Can design building with space or space with building
*Vary in designs by eras-
Gothic: Love for construction
Renaissance: cultivation of cavities
Baroque: intent to see architecture from certain angles |
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Experiencing Architecture - Rasmussen
Chapter III
Contrasting Effects of Solids and Cavities |
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*Renaissance Architecture
-Cavities are used to balance symmetry and order
-shadows exaggerate depth
-cylindrical body emphasized by curves
-Simple
-Alteration between concave and convex to produce the effect of order and harmony
See chapter for building examples.
*Shifts away from balance and harmony to mannerism
*Movements can be created with architecture |
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Experiencing Architecture - Rasmussen
Chapter IV
Architecture experienced as Color Planes |
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*Color in the environment can have different effects
-light colors can appear lighter ie Venice floats on water
*French revolution attempted to do away with heavy bulky architecture - built light - larger more open (heavy was not gone for good)
*Le Corbusier designed buildings inspired by cubism and made visual effects of weightlessness.
-Thin pillars & light colors with thin walls inspired by Japanese architecture.
- Nearly weightless construction. Light was also important.
*Mathematical precision and symmetry can be very pleasing in a variety of buildings. (Villa Rotundo etc) ratios |
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Experiencing Architecture - Rasmussen
Chapter IV
Architecture experienced as Color Planes |
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*Le Corbusier used mathematical ratios in architecture.
*He used the golden section used in buildings maximized utility and efficiency
*He based relief of male: the essence of man's proportions
-man's height with upraised arms was double the naval height.
*An essential difference b/t monumental buildings and domestic architecture are their proportions.
-some proportions appeal to many people but there is no certain right proportion for architecture.
*Frederik's Hospital, Copenhagen (1750)
Building was proportioned off the dimensions of the hospital beds and walkways. |
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Experiencing Architecture - Rasmussen
Chapter X
Hearing Architecture |
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*Different shaped rooms reverberate differently
*Vaults and Domed vaults . More acoustically effective. These ceilings tend to perform better in reverberating sound effectively than other shaped ceilings.
*A room that is cold and formal does not refer to temperature but materials when it comes to sound
*Hard sounds reverberate in these "cold rooms" - sounds would echo and possibly linger.
*Warm rooms may have rugs and draperies. The sounds would not be as harsh. Would not reverberate as loud. |
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Bishop's Palace
Galveston, TX
Nicholas John Clayton, 1886-1891 |
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The Foam House, Austin, TX
Charles Harker, 1969 |
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The Foam House
* New, Experimental, Free Spirits, Open Spaces |
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The Parthenon - Athens, Greece - 447-430
Represents Greek Culture
Sophistocated, Refined, Mathematics based
Notion of logic, Rhythm, Greek Theather,
Sense of Awe & gods |
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St Peter's, Rome, Italy
Bramante, Sangallo, Michaelangelo, Della Porta, Maderno, Bernini et al.
1505-1626
Revival of the Catholic CHurch
Embodied power, Political and Religious power centered on church |
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St Peter's Basilica
Built over 120 years, considered greatest work of its age
Architects: Michaelangelo and Bernini, Bramante, De Sangallo, Della Porta et al. |
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Library, San Antonio, Texas
Architect: Ricardo Legorreta
Year: 1995 |
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Library SA, TX; Ricardo Legorreta 1995
* Geometric
* "Northern most city" in Latin America
* Mexico - Modern, Forward thinking |
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HUGO HAERING
Short, impish, whimpy
Nature is man's great teacher - hiking, mtn climbing
Learn through the way nature is |
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HUGO HAERING
Uses the open space - as the movement of life
Swirling of the building as movement of nature |
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Barcelona Pavillion
Mies van der Rohe
1929
*Invented steel/glass "boxy" office buildings
*"Bind/tender graph of life as a grid"
*Bare Rooms/Spaces
* Generous spaces |
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Artist: Unknown
Title: Chartres Cathedral
Date: 1194-1220
Tiny City/Small town outside of Paris
They built this Cathedral to house Mary's tunic.
Needed to be large to honor Mary
Note how it rises up |
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Artist: Unknown
Title: Chartres Cathedral (floor plan)
Date: 1194-1220
Front Facade
Wonderful balance b/t shorter and heavier tower on one side and taller and thinner tower on the other.
Wonderful visual interest, different periods but still balance, proportion, scale - visual interest.
*Rhythm - of columns repeating sections
*Texture- Depth - petina
*Scale - Extremely Large
*Light - Contrast b/t light & mysterious darkness/Light of God
*Color - Stained Glass Windows - stories told in color for those who could not read |
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Building: Chapel
Location: Ronchamps, France
Architect: Le Corbusier
Year: 1950- 1953
Based n Spirituality. 1st Chapel was built in the 14th when a girl in the village was given a message by Mary.
Initial Chapel was destroyed in War - bombing
This chapel was rebuilt in 1950s also based in Spirituality |
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Chapel - Le Corbusier - Ronchamps, France - 1950-1953
Elements of Form
* Shape - piece of sculpture
* Line - Flowing lines ~ obliques
* Texture - rough, tactile, stubble, concrete, rugged
* Color - White Chapel with celebratory moments of rich primary colors.
* Space - Lower in center, higher in edges.
* Light - Apertures of light & one window of Mary was saved from the original chapel.
* Rhythm - like jazz...fast, slow, irregular...depicted by different window sizes |
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Chapel - Le Corbusier - 1950-53 - France
Continue to think about The 12 elements of form.
Balance Proportion Scale
Line Color Symmetry
Light Material Shape
Rhythm Texture Shape |
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Chateau
Location: Chenonceaux, France
Architect: Philibert De L'orme
Year: 1515-1523 |
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Chateau
Location: Chenonceaux, France
Architect: Philibert De L'orme
Year: 1515-1523
Look at the symmetry & rhythm of the arches, the light and darkness in the reflections and shadows.
Scale of the structure |
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Chateau
Location: Vaux-le-Vicomte, France
Architect: Le Vau, Le Notre, Le Brun
Took over 5 years to build Chateau
Nicholas was arrested by Louis XIV for having the most beautiful place in France and he hired the 3 architects to build Versailes. |
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Chateau
Location: Vaux-le-Vicomte, France
Architect: Le Vau, Le Notre, Le Brun
Year: 1656-1661
Elements of Form
Symmetry: building, gardens,
Scale: Grand - even the bedroom was enormous
Color: Vibrant - blues, greens, golds, reds (inside) Flowers and scrubs outside selected for their colors and growth
Space: Swirling - ballroom, round, dynamic |
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Opera House
Sydney, Australia
Jorn Utzon
1956-73
Memorable emblem for the country, something for people from all around the world to travel to see.
Progressive Nature of the Australians - Opera House |
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Opera House
Sydney, Australia
Jorn Utzon
1956-73
Elements of Form
Rhythm of powerful Shells
Shape like the sailboat
Material - Glass tile - shimmers in the light
Scale - Huge, over powers the city
Texture - concrete and glass |
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Opera House
Sydney, Australia
Jorn Utzon
1956-73
More texture up close
Beauty of form/texture/scale/shapes |
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Taj Mahal
Location: Agra, India
Architect: Shah Jahan
Year: 1631-53
Dedicated to the love of his most beloved wife.
This building too has become a symbol of a nation. The power of its beauty is synonymous with India |
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Taj Mahal
Location: Agra, India
Architect: Shah Jahan
Year: 1631-53
Elements of Form
*Proportion - amazingly perfect
*Symmetrical - leading up to Taj Mahal (grounds)
*Shape - rounded and pointed. The shape is very distinctive
*Material - expensive, imported inlay marble. many man hours of labor (labor of love to create each piece of building)
*Scale - size is very large - awesome - awe inspirering
*Light - Different colors at different times of day and different size of moon. Great use of materials to use the light. |
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Temple of Heaven
Constructed during Reign of Ming Emperor YongLe
Beijing, China
1406-1420
The architecture and layout of the Temple of Heaven is based on elaborate symbolism and numerology.
Temple of Heaven are round, like Heaven - while the foundations and axes of the complex are square (or 2 dimensional - that is, flat), like the earth.
Thus, the buildings and their settings reflect ancient Chinese religious beliefs that imagine heaven as round and earth as square. The main buildings in the Temple of Heaven are constructed on a central north-south axis. The altar and temple are round and sit within square shaped areas. |
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Temple of Heaven
* Temple of Heaven are tiled in blue, the color symbolizing heaven and sky.
* golden yellow symbolizes the emperor and green Buddhism.
Symmetry - Round and Square
Scale - Grand, vast, wide
Colors - See above and inside, bright at the alter
Materials - Tiles, wood, marble stairs
Rhythm - of tiles, articulation of stairs |
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Name: Villa Rotonda
Location: Vicenza, Italy
Architect: Andrea Palladio
Year 1550
*It's name derives from the plan - a circle within a square
*The influence of the Roman Pantheon is evident
*The square domed building is aligned with the cardinal points of the compass.
*Each of the 4 sides has a wide flight of stairs leading to the portico with six ionic columns - commanding beautiful views of the country side (symmetrical) |
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Name: Villa Rotonda
Location: Vicenza, Italy
Architect: Andrea Palladio
Year 1550
*Palladio designed with mathematical order - analytical order
*Symmetry and Balance were paramount.
*Human beings reached a point were we have hrderly minds and we should live in order.
*This grand structure sat on top of a hill and had bilateral symmetry. |
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Name: Villa Rotonda
Location: Vicenza, Italy
Architect: Andrea Palladio
Year 1550
* There is a dome in the center.
* Our brains must capture the larger whole - the perfect order.
*The larger rooms should relate to the smaller rooms.
*A perfect structure is so perfect that nothing should be added or taken away.
*The pt is order, logical & Clarity...That is our pt on earth |
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Name: Dormitory (for Girls)
Architect: Louis Kahn
Location: Bryn Mawr College, Penn, US
Year: 1960-1965
Construction Material: Concrete Frame, Slate Cladding
Style: Modern
"Space is architectural when the evidence of how it is made is seen and comprehended."
"I believe firmly that we will become even more attuned to qualities that exist in the spaces, that 'want to be' - qualities that transcend function and circumstance."
— Louis I. Kahn. from Heinz Ronner, with Sharad Jhaveri and Alessandro Vasella Louis I. Kahn: Complete Works 1935-74. p187, 194. |
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Name: Dormitory (for Girls)
Architect: Louis Kahn
Location: Bryn Mawr College, Penn, US
Year: 1960-1965
Construction Material: Concrete Frame, Slate Cladding
Style: Modern
*Intersection diamond plans with services at core and rooms at periphery. (1. Greeting; 2. Living Room; 3. Dinner space)
* Orderly, Logical, Areas went from Public to semi public to private spaces. |
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Name: Dormitory (for Girls)
Architect: Louis Kahn
Location: Bryn Mawr College, Penn, US
Year: 1960-1965
Construction Material: Concrete Frame, Slate Cladding
Style: Modern
Note the order, the symmetry, even the coke bottles are parallel to the lines on the structure.
Order becomes lived. |
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S. Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane
Location: Rome Italy
Architect: Borromini
Year: 1638-1641
* Great building squeezed into a small location on a back street. Most churches had position of prominence.
* He was given a corner with 4 fountains depicting 4 seasons (Not a Main st or a Piazza. How to make it stand out
*Style: Baroque - Facade on the main street and a Dome on the side street
*Combined linear and circular |
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S. Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane
Location: Rome Italy
Architect: Borromini
Year: 1638-1641
*Note the dome area and the linear areas.
*Borromini geometrical exercises were well suited for this site. Oval longitudinal with the entrance at one tip and the people flow through to the high altar. |
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S. Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane
Location: Rome Italy
Architect: Borromini
Year: 1638-1641
*Alter at the far side, opposite the entrance.
*This structure was complex, rich and multifaceted. |
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Denver Museum of Art
Denver, CO USA
Architect: Daniel Libeskind
Year: 2006
*Angular, Dynamic, Thrusting shape is giving it a presence w/i the square.
* The art is making a statement.
*Inside there is disorientation and confusion.
*Art is not simple, it is not direct, can be confusing.
*Architect had lots of disruptions in his own life, Life& art is a confusing world |
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Building: S. Andrea
LocationL Mantua, Italy
Year: 1470-1476
Architect: Alberti
*Construction brick bearing masonry & stucco, in the early Renaissance style. Thick side arches and interior vault. Side alley but majestic.
Technology of building - how was it put together? |
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Building: S. Andrea
LocationL Mantua, Italy
Year: 1470-1476
Architect: Alberti
*The building technique was how to make a grand vault and support it while making a stunning church?
*Alberti used the curved arches and pillars as the support. They were not only beautiful but strong.
*Arches are bent beams...in engineering, they still support the load. Columns are pillars. (Ornamentation does not effect support) |
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Building: S. Andrea
LocationL Mantua, Italy
Year: 1470-1476
Architect: Alberti
*Walls are symmetrical.
*Look at the load disbursement. |
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Building: Schroder House
Location: Utrechr, The Netherlands
Year: 1924-1925
Architect: Gerrit Rietveld
***Technology of the 20th century***
*Plywood, Concrete, Joints, Horizontals meet Verticals.
*Reinforced concrete extends out with steel rails.
*Early Modern |
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Building: Schroder House
Location: Utrechr, The Netherlands
Year: 1924-1925
Architect: Gerrit Rietveld
****Technology****
*Composition of abstract plances with projecting roofs and balconies
*light, thin, dynamic,
*Intellectual expression of technology |
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Building: Centre Pompidou
Location: Paris, France
Year: 1972-1976
Architect: Piano & Rogers
***Technology - What is a building?***
*The architects bravely exposed the massive "interior" of the building. Showing the structure is steel and flexible
*The expression was flexible "people movers" were exposed - mechanical tubes
*The exoskeleton of the air intakes and inner workings were also exposed. |
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Building: Centre Pompidou
Location: Paris, France
Year: 1972-1976
Architect: Piano & Rogers
*These are the systems that make the building function.
*Style is high tech modern.
*used steel and glass in an urban setting. |
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Building: Sydney Opera House
Location: Sydney, AUstralia
Year: 1957-1973
Architect Jorn Utzon
***Intellectual Challenges***
*Lyrical building, housing a place of music to feed the soul
*Challenges one to think intellectually
*Iconic building representing the nation. People travel from all over the world to see the Opera house |
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Building: Sydney Opera House
Location: Sydney, AUstralia
Year: 1957-1973
Architect Jorn Utzon
*Family of forms in spherical section roofs
*Pure curving shapes that across the harbor appear in great heroic harmony
*Iconic |
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Building: Great Pyramids of Egypt
Location: Egypt
Year: 2650-2500 BC
Architect: Unknown
*****Mathematical wonder*****
*According to geometry/trionometry
*Built to give Pharaohs eternal life on the other side
*Oriented on the cardinal points N-S-E-W |
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Building: Design for Chaux (Utopian society)
Location: Chaux, France
Year: 1804
Architect Claude Ledoux
*French Neoclassical architect known as a utopian - he hoped that urban design and architecture could lead to an ideal society.
*He designed Chaux. Center of a double D shaped plan (circle) going outward. Salt works.
*Geometrical, mystical use of numbers and ratios
*Aerial view showing the salt works which were built at the center of the double D-shaped plan |
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Building: Design for Chaux (Utopian society)
Location: Chaux, France
Year: 1804
Architect Claude Ledoux
*Design was based on math
*Salt is isometric - light can pass through it - it is a cube and a substance our body can not do without.
*it was the economic basis for this town |
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Building: Stockholm Library
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Year: 1920-1928
Architect: Gunnar Asplund
***Prestige***
*Round central great hall on square.
*Very few books in Swedish language. Making them front and center for all those seeking books.
* Architect gave the library prestige through geometry & pure shapes - sharpness & purity. |
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Building: Stockholm Library
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Year: 1920-1928
Architect: Gunnar Asplund
*Entrance to the Library is in the center of the cylindrical form.
*You see the books all around you. Gives the books prestige |
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Building: Guggenheim Museum
Location: NYC, NY
Year: 1956-1959
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
***Prestige****
*Art is prestigious and Mr. Guggenheim wants others to know how important the art is...Wright creates a simple geometric building circular levels with square on top.
*Modern building - Museum draws people to the prestige of the building and in to see the art. |
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Building: Guggenheim Museum
Location: NYC, NY
Year: 1956-1959
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
*Inside a circle & spiral ramp
*Movement & space in the geometric form
*Windows become a scene of the buildings prestige. |
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Building: Guggenheim Museum
Location: NYC, NY
Year: 1956-1959
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
*It is a continuous spatial helix, a circular ramp that expands as it coils vertiginously around an unobstructed well of space capped by a flat-ribbed glass dome. A seamless construct, the building evoked for Wright 'the quiet unbroken wave.'..."
— Spiro Kostof. A History of Architecture, Settings and Rituals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. p740. |
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Building: US Pavillion at Expo
Location: Montreal, Canada
Year: 1967
Architect: Buckminister Fuller
***Connection to Nature***
*Lightweight geodesic dome envelope enclosing more conventional interior construction
*Wants longest span with least amount of material
*Tetrahedrals connected are very efficient and made a connection to nature - outside - sun |
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Building: US Pavillion at Expo
Location: Montreal, Canada
Year: 1967
Architect: Buckminister Fuller
*Sensory light controlled shades
*Major exhibit was the Apollo space program
*That was another connection with nature and outer space |
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Building: House
Location: ?Long Island, NY?
Year: 1967-69
Architect: Peter Eisenman
***Intellectual Mind Games***
*Looked at geometry of house
*Rubics cube type angles and models
*All homes based on square grids |
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Building: House
Location: ?Long Island, NY?
Year: 1967-69
Architect: Peter Eisenman
Intellectual games
*Deconstructive modernist
*Spatial rotation |
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Building: House
Location: ?Long Island, NY?
Year: 1967-69
Architect: Peter Eisenman
Intelligent Games
*Red stairs are non-functioning but still geometrically - spatially rotated from the functioning black stairs. |
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Building: Zollverein School of Design
Location: Essen, Germany
Year: 2003-2006
Architect: Kazuyo Sejima (Famous female Japanese architect)
***Iconic***
*Located on the site of an old coal mill near carbon factory
*Building is massive in contrast to surrounding homes and industrial buildings in size and style. |
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Building: Zollverein School of Design
Location: Essen, Germany
Year: 2003-2006
Architect: Kazuyo Sejima (Famous female Japanese architect)
***Iconic***
*Inside, first floor is open study area with no partitions.
*Four floors are varying heights with an asymmetrical arrangement of square windows of varying sizes.
*The buildings floors are almost a perfect square (Unlike the perfection or order of the window) |
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Building: Capitol building Bangladesh/ National Assembly
Location: Dacca, Bangladesh
Year: 1962-1974
Architect: Louis I. Kahn
***He gave us democracy***
*Building was regulated by geometry
*Based on S. Asian Pattern
*Extremely elevated building with Prestige & Shape
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Building: Capitol building Bangladesh/ National Assembly
Location: Dacca, Bangladesh
Year: 1962-1974
Architect: Louis I. Kahn
***Democracy***
*Everything ordinal axis N-S-E-W except prayer room is facing Mecca.
* Mind puzzle the way they were put together |
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Building: Thai Royal Palace
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Year:?
Architect:?
***Nature,Biology?Organisms as inspirations of form***
*The roof tops are like the fingernails of the elegant Thai dancers
*The buildings are nestled amongst the waterways
*Palaces are drawn from organic form
*Ambulation in Buhhdist religion/ritual
*Ornaments on buildings are part of religion and culture. |
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Building: Casa Mila
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Year: 1906-1910
Architect: Antonio Gaudi
***Apartment Building Attuned to Nature around it***
*Can see the Mediterranean Sea
*Soffets are scalloped like the waves or a sea shell
*The Apartment is on a corner but it is not a right angle
*Made as God would have wanted to live - among nature |
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Building: Casa Mila
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Year: 1906-1910
Architect: Antonio Gaudi
***Nature***
*Made out of stone but looks more like sand
*The windows on the rooftop are to let in natural light
*The rooftop resembles the mountaintop of the mtns he hiked in
*Building drew from the landscape and nature of the area |
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Building: Casa Mila
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Year: 1906-1910
Architect: Antonio Gaudi
***Nature***
*The metal was made to look like seaweed
*man made stone - like bluffs
*Nature was truly the inspiration for this building and all his buildings in this area |
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Building: Dipoli Student Union & Conference Center
Location: Otaniemi, Finland
Year: 1966
Architect: Reima Pietila
***Nature***
*When moved from downtown, the architect embraced the thin, tall burch and pine trees as well as the rugged terrain.
*Stone/Granite base, Verticle windows & thick wooden roof representing the thicker green "canopy" of the forest. |
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Building: Dipoli Student Union & Conference Center
Location: Otaniemi, Finland
Year: 1966
Architect: Reima Pietila
***Nature***
*The windows gave the students a clear view to the outdoors. |
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Building: Dipoli Student Union & Conference Center
Location: Otaniemi, Finland
Year: 1966
Architect: Reima Pietila
***Nature***
*The size of the man in the picture shows the enormity of the building and yet the building looks like it is a natural fixture of the environment.
*The size and scale is appropriate for the majesty of nature. |
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Building: TWA Terminal, (Kennedy Airport)
Location: NYC, NY
Year: 1956-1962
Architect: Eero Saarinen
***Nature***
*Terminal looked like a bird ready for flight
*All lines were curved, soft
*Even the way people moved were curved - not straight or harsh lines |
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Building: TWA Terminal, (Kennedy Airport)
Location: NYC, NY
Year: 1956-1962
Architect: Eero Saarinen
*Natural organic forms derived from flight
*The main lobby had soaring, swooping walls, carefully modeled staircases, searing ares and many other features were all curved. One lead into the next for the traveler to progress in the journey.
*Excitement of the trip. Even the boards with flight info were rounded |
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Building: TWA Terminal, (Kennedy Airport)
Location: NYC, NY
Year: 1956-1962
Architect: Eero Saarinen
The Creator's Words
"All the curves, all the spaces and elements right down to the shape of the signs, display boards, railings and check-in desks were to be of a matching nature. We wanted passengers passing through the building to experience a fully-designed environment, in which each part arises from another and everything belongs to the same formal world."
—Eero Saarinen, 1959 from Peter Gossel and Gabriele Leuthauser. Architecture in the Twentieth Century. p250. |
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Building: Phaeno Science Center
Location: Wolfsburg, GE
Year:2006
Architect: Zaha Hadid
***Nature and Geometry****
*The building appears to hover
*there are diagonal views across different levels, as the space curves and banks and winds and dips.
*The result can only be described as an alien landscape of craters, caverns and plateaux. |
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Building: Phaeno Science Center
Location: Wolfsburg, GE
Year:2006
Architect: Zaha Hadid
*The site has the city of Wolfsburg on one side and the largest manufacturing site in Europe, which is the Volkswagen factory, on the other.
*The design was created to elevate the building so it does not break up the connection between the two areas.
*Restaurants, cafes and Kiosks were added.
*Raising up Phaeno's exhibition hall on the cones helped preserve the city's pedestrian and vehicular links, and also created a new covered public plaza at street level. |
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Building: Phaeno Science Center
Location: Wolfsburg, GE
Year:2006
Architect: Zaha Hadid
*The inclines of the structures and uneven levels of the windows kept people moving from one location to the next.
*There are 250 separate exhibition areas in the center.
*The architect understood flow and movement. Understood where to put escalators to keep people moving forward |
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Building: Guggenheim Museum
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Year: 1997
Architect: Frank Gehry
*Free form sculpture of curvaceous metal-clad forms.
*Abstract ships movement through water
*Gehry was fond of fish - shapes, textures, scales
*Situated on a River that comes into downtown |
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Building: Guggenheim Museum
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Year: 1997
Architect: Frank Gehry
*Lobby - central point for visitors to flow through
*Great mixture of glass and metal
*Natural and organic - visitors can look out through the glass and see the beautiful views of the water and city.
*Great transition point in the museum |
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Building: Guggenheim Museum
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Year: 1997
Architect: Frank Gehry
*Program of the Museum was willful and sculptural.
*The long section of the museum has images of the fish...sleek, curvaceous |
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Building: Walt Disney Concert Hall
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Year: 2003
Architect: Frank Gehry
*Office space is geometrical - mathematical - business like
*Concert hall is curvaceous - makes sense for the musical notes. Can almost see the melodious sounds floating up
*The taller metal forms stretch up and out toward the city while the lower forms bend down toward the passerby. _Architecture Week 17 Dec 2003. |
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Building: Walt Disney Concert Hall
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Year: 2003
Architect: Frank Gehry
*The building is a stunning piece of architecture, ripe for metaphoric interpretations ranging from blooming flower to sailing ship. -Architecture Week 17 Dec 2003. |
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Building: Walt Disney Concert Hall
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Year: 2003
Architect: Frank Gehry
Nature - Biology
*Curves and textures, size and scale of the metal.
*Light in the chamber penetrating the music area |
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Building: Farm
Location: Gut, Germany
Year: 1924-1925
Architect: Hugo Haering
***Functionality***
*Philosophy-a home is a reflection of function
-to express its function overall |
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