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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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