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| What does Kent Spreckelmeyer try to do? |
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| Minimize differences between design disciplines |
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| Kent Spreckelmeyer's Lecture |
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| "The Nature of Architectural Design" |
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| 5 points of Kent Spreckelmeyer's lecture? |
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1.Personality of Architect
2.Modern business of architecture
3. Integrated nature of design
4. The Design Process
5. Interesting Designers (may or may not be architects) |
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| Marvin Hall vs. Studio 804 |
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all men vs. women, minorities
all drawing vs. tools, construction, real clients |
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| 3 changes in architecture |
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1. definition of architecture
2. nature of process
3. global emphasis |
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| Webster definition of Architecture 1: |
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| the art or science of building; specifically : the art or practice of designing and building structures and especiall habitable ones |
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| Webster definition of Architecture 2: |
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| a method or style of building |
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| Architecture as a "complicated world" |
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art/science
aesthetic/practical material |
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| Differences between 1st and 5th year students: |
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introverts vs. extroverts
-need more extroverts to deal w/ ppl |
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| Most popular reason for entering architecture profession? |
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HP: -stamp of (important guy)
-extremely individual |
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HP: -stereotype of single, sole architect
-difficult in modern world |
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| Howard Roark (from The Fountainhead) |
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HP:-specific solution for each kind of design
-too narrow |
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HP: -modern architecture too complex for individual
-first modern firm
-corporate way of practice |
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McKim = extrovert
Engineer = engineer
Whtie = artist |
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| HP: all designers, work as group |
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| The Architects Collaborative (TAC) |
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| HP: First firm on NY Stock Exchange: |
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| Caudill, Rowlett, Scott (CRS) |
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HP: -architect & developer
- financial stake in projects |
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| __% of worldwide stadia come from KCMO |
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HP: - German system
- educated designers, not just architects
-broad multidisciplinary emphasis |
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| Design Process is now more________: |
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| cyclical - things happen continually |
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Personality:1940-1970
-moved design into modern world
-not just for clients, for world markets (chairs)
-used modern industrial process |
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Personality: technically architect, but design thinker
-about efficiency, environmentalism
-did many things (maps, cars, domes)
-some ideas "ludacris"
-compare to "Birds Nest" stadium |
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Personality: inspiration from local, natural conditions
-designed cathedral upside down (gravity)
-catenary arch
-artistic sense and natural forces
-helical forms (dna) |
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Personality: designed w/in specific culture
-great architect, greater designer
*designer about whole environment, not just buildings |
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1.multi-dimensional
2.multi-disciplinary
3.not limited |
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| Main Idea of Dennis Domer's FLW lecture |
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| Where do your design ideas come from? |
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-his culture
-his mother
-his travel |
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| this architect didn't like universities: |
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| 3 influences on architecture |
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FLW worked for ___________
-he was fired b/c of __________ |
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| 2 main architects that influenced FLW: |
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B: designed by Sullivan
-"form follows function"
-full of beaurocrats
-important impact on FLW |
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| Guaranty Building, Buffalo |
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B: Sullivan & FLW
-mix of abstract elements/classical references
-sets foundation for "Prairie School" |
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B: similar to Charnley house
-but adds large roof & chimney |
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| Winslow House, Chicago 1893 |
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style:
*emphasis of horizontal
*prominent chimney
*large roof w/ overhangs |
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-influenced FLW
-*"flowing space" ver Modernist
-clean elegant expression of parts
-white/wood juxtaposition
-movable partitions, variable rooms
-also influenced Mies |
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| 1893 world's fair - Japanese Pavilion |
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B: -VERY horizontal
-rhythm, repitition, patterns
-central hearth
-outdoor spaces, terraces
-hard to find front door
-FLW designed EVERYTHING in house |
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B: -expression of materials (concrete, stone)
-horizontality
-short ceilings = cozy spaces
-inside/outside spaces |
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influence of __________
-the "elimination of the insignificant"
-collected 50,000
-integration of natural setting, built forms |
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B: FLW ran off w/ wife of owner in 1909
-"leafy" nature |
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B: Japanese influences
-motif's from outside continue inside
-ingenius circulation
-FLW rectangles used in many places |
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B: for soap company
-natural air, lighting
-health and welfare of workers
-designed chairs "belong" in building |
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B: Secession from history -"all that crap"
-exhibition building (manifesto)
-circle theme, basic geometry |
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| Vienna Secession Building |
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B: withstood earthquake
-land expensive, destroyed in 1968
-windows, plates w/ motifs |
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B: uses curves
- "organic architecture"
-similar to music
-workspace w/ columns, daylight |
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B: FLW
-repetition of curves
-roof leaks |
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| Marin County Civic Center |
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B: use of spiral
-hang art on curved spaces? |
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| Dean Gaunt's summary of Why Architecture Matter's of definition architecture: |
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| When Buidling becomes art |
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BfB: sublime achievement in art
-many ways art affects us
-architect must understand how we experience things |
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| Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder? |
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| Art is in the Eye of the informed beholder |
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BfB: exquisite architecture that is art
-paradox of gallery competing w/ art
-beautiful container for art |
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| Yale Art Gallery, Louis Kahn |
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BfB: undoubtedly a masterwork
-"work of art"
-may not like it |
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| Architecture is about this: |
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| ____principal value in life - Corbusier |
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| "POETRY" of life - Goldberger |
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| "architecture is the will of an epoch translated into built form" - ? |
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Couldn't have happend w/out __________
1.Seagram Building Example
2.must understand ancient Greek culture |
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| buildings are the greatest consumers of _________ |
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BfB: "no image has immediate impact in American History for lifting the spirit" - Gaunt
-homeplace, set in nature, technological marcel |
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| How do we judge if something is architecture? |
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-presence
-significance
-materiality
-emptiness |
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| simple definition of architecture |
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BfB: banal, joyful, witty
-building used by Robert Venturi |
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| Duck Building, Long Island |
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| who said "bicycle shed is a building, Lincoln Cathedral is architecture" |
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BfB: inspired by grain elevators
-inspired by Genry |
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| Guthrie Theatre, Johhn Nouvel, Minneapolis |
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BfB: go beyond shelter
-about culture
-"precarius balance between art and practicality" - goldberger |
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| 3 terms that describe the Vitruvian man by da Vinci |
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| Firmness, Commodity, Delight |
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| accomodates function, comfortable, satisfies human need |
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| structurally sound, materials, sustainable, must FEEL this |
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BfB: guy also designed British Museum
- Goldberger quite "art/not art, unlike anything else"
-small round mirrors |
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| these 3 buildings transcend functions |
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Larkin Building, Wright
Monticello, Jefferson
Salk Institute, Kahn |
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