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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
12/14/2010

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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
Definition
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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to put creativity to use
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HP: architect as artist
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Richard Morris Hunt
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HP: -stamp of (important guy)
-extremely individual
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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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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Beaux-Arts
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HP: -modern architecture too complex for individual
-first modern firm
-corporate way of practice
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McKim, Mead, White
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McKim =
Mean =
White =
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McKim = extrovert
Engineer = engineer
Whtie = artist
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HP: all designers, work as group
Definition
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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John Portman
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__% of worldwide stadia come from KCMO
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65
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HP: - German system
- educated designers, not just architects
-broad multidisciplinary emphasis
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Bauhaus
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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
Definition
Ray & Charles Eames
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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
Definition
Buckminister Fuller
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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)
Definition
Antonio Gaudi
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Personality: designed w/in specific culture
-great architect, greater designer
*designer about whole environment, not just buildings
Definition
Alvar Aalto
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DESIGN is:
1.
2.
3.
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1.multi-dimensional
2.multi-disciplinary
3.not limited
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Dennis Domer's Lecture
Definition
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Main Idea of Dennis Domer's FLW lecture
Definition
Where do your design ideas come from?
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FLW's influences:
Definition
-his culture
-his mother
-his travel
Term
this architect didn't like universities:
Definition
Frank Lloyd Wright
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3 influences on architecture
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1.art
2.poetry
3.music
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FLW worked for ___________
-he was fired b/c of __________
Definition
Louis Sullivan
-side work
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2 main architects that influenced FLW:
Definition
Adler
Sullivan
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B: designed by Sullivan
-"form follows function"
-full of beaurocrats
-important impact on FLW
Definition
Guaranty Building, Buffalo
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B: Sullivan & FLW
-mix of abstract elements/classical references
-sets foundation for "Prairie School"
Definition
Charnley House
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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
Definition
Prairie School Style
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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
Definition
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
Definition
Robie House, 1985
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B: -expression of materials (concrete, stone)
-horizontality
-short ceilings = cozy spaces
-inside/outside spaces
Definition
Fallingwater
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influence of __________
-the "elimination of the insignificant"
-collected 50,000
-integration of natural setting, built forms
Definition
Japanese Prints
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B: FLW ran off w/ wife of owner in 1909
-"leafy" nature
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Cheney House
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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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Unity Temple, Oak Park
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B: for soap company
-natural air, lighting
-health and welfare of workers
-designed chairs "belong" in building
Definition
Larkin Building, Buffalo
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B: Secession from history -"all that crap"
-exhibition building (manifesto)
-circle theme, basic geometry
Definition
Vienna Secession Building
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B: withstood earthquake
-land expensive, destroyed in 1968
-windows, plates w/ motifs
Definition
Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
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B: uses curves
- "organic architecture"
-similar to music
-workspace w/ columns, daylight
Definition
Johnson Wax building
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B: FLW
-repetition of curves
-roof leaks
Definition
Marin County Civic Center
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B: use of spiral
-hang art on curved spaces?
Definition
Guggenheim, NY
Term
Paul Goldberger's book:
Definition
Why Architecture Matters
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Dean Gaunt's summary of Why Architecture Matter's of definition architecture:
Definition
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
Definition
National Gallery, Berlin
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Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?
Definition
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
Definition
Yale Art Gallery, Louis Kahn
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BfB: undoubtedly a masterwork
-"work of art"
-may not like it
Definition
Farnsworth House, Mies
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Architecture is about this:
Definition
everyday experience
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____principal value in life - Corbusier
Definition
"POETRY" of life - Goldberger
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"architecture is the will of an epoch translated into built form" - ?
Definition
Mies van der Rohe
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Couldn't have happend w/out __________

1.Seagram Building Example
2.must understand ancient Greek culture
Definition
Parthenon
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buildings are the greatest consumers of _________
Definition
energy
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BfB: "no image has immediate impact in American History for lifting the spirit" - Gaunt
-homeplace, set in nature, technological marcel
Definition
Fallingwater, Wright
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How do we judge if something is architecture?
Definition
-presence
-significance
-materiality
-emptiness
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simple definition of architecture
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"It makes life better"
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BfB: banal, joyful, witty
-building used by Robert Venturi
Definition
Duck Building, Long Island
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who said "bicycle shed is a building, Lincoln Cathedral is architecture"
Definition
Nicholas Peusner
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BfB: inspired by grain elevators
-inspired by Genry
Definition
Guthrie Theatre, Johhn Nouvel, Minneapolis
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BfB: go beyond shelter
-about culture
-"precarius balance between art and practicality" - goldberger
Definition
Georgian row houses
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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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Commodity
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accomodates function, comfortable, satisfies human need
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Firmness
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structurally sound, materials, sustainable, must FEEL this
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Delight
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"the art of it"
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BfB: guy also designed British Museum
- Goldberger quite "art/not art, unlike anything else"
-small round mirrors
Definition
Breakfast room, Sir John
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these 3 buildings transcend functions
Definition
Larkin Building, Wright
Monticello, Jefferson
Salk Institute, Kahn
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