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the physical embodiment of who we are as individuals and who we are collectively as a culture |
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Bishop's Palace Galveston, TX |
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Nicholas John Clayton - Representative of people and culture of city
- Represents a moment in Texas culture
- Eclectic
- Gentle, Feminine, Soft Details
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Charles Harker - Hippies, Rebellion, Reinventions (1960's)
- Rejecting Old Traditions
- Organic/Extension of Landscape
- New Technology
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arbitrary solution to an indeterminate problem/issue ("flaky") |
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solutions to indeterminate issues based on values |
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Things that Affect Values |
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- Personality/personal characteristics
- Exposure to various things, ideas, or places
- Age, era, current technology, and politics
- Choices and beliefs (based on previous 3 things)
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Hugo Haering (Overarching Values) |
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- Society depends on individuals
- Nature is man's great teacher
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Hugo Haering (Architectural Values) |
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- Design is intuitive, emotional, and spiritual
- Beauty is relevant
- Each building is unique
- Function, then Expression
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Mies van der Rohe Overarching Values |
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- Society depends on its institution
- The collective knowledge of western tradition is man's great teacher
- "reason is the first principle of all human work"
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Mies van der Rohe (Architectural Values) |
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- Design is a rational process
- Beauty is universal
- Architecture should exemplify the spirit of its age/era
- Construction and structure are the primary criteria of architecture
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Albert Speer (Overarching Values) |
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- Society depends on its leaders
- Fate is the great controller of our destiny
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Albert Speer (Architectual Values) |
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- Design is a tool for communicating ideas
- Buildings should be representative of their genetic type
- Richness, wonder, and drama are the overriding characteristics of architecture
- Architecture is a means to greatness (immorality)
- Classic values are the great teachers (Greek&Roman)
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Farm at Gut Garkau Germany |
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Hugo Haering - All-purpose
- Movement and order based on functionality
- Farm shaped by farming processes
- Unique solutions to generic problems
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Mies van der Rohe - Enough space for function
- No definition of space; room for freedom
- "less is more"
- Minimal elegance
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Mies van der Rohe - Flood plane
- One room made of glass suspended above ground
- Steel structure
- Exposed structural materials
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New State Chancellery Berlin, Germany |
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Albert Speer - Hitler's offices
- Sequence of portals and guards resemble Hitler's power
- Society depends on its leaders
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structurally sound and physical requirements of the building;climate control (physical considerations) |
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accommodation of activity and life;functionality (human factors) |
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- Balance
- Proportion
- Symmetry
- Light
- Space
- Shape
- Line
- Color
- Material
- Scale
- Rhythm
- Texture
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Cathedral, Chartres France |
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- Motivated by religion
- Connection of Mary and Christ
- Limestone
- Elements of form: symmetry, balance, texture, color, light, scale
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Le Vau/Le Notre/Le Brun - Motivated to be the most powerful house
- Show's architect's power
- Begining of the ideas for the palace at Versaille's
- Elements of form: texture, color, scale, space
- Intimacy and power
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- Motivated by grief
- Elements of form: proportion, symmetry, shape, light, material, scale
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Le Corbusier - Spiritualiy (not religion)
- Pilgrimage chapel for women
- Relative beauty
- Elements of form: shape, line, texture, color, space, light/drama, rhythm
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Aspects of Intellectual and Artistic Expression |
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- Beautiful and provocative
- Social Attitude/morality
- Rules of Painting
- Hypocrisy
- Political Views
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Periods of Thought-Provoking Architecture |
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- Renaissance
- Modern (20th Century)
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Themes of Intellectual Architecture/Art |
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- Order (mathematical clarity)
- Complexity
- Technique
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Palladio - Astronomy connection
- Perfect Shapes
- "Puzzle"
- Cosmic Center
- Harmony by Proportion
- Nothing can be added or subtracted without destroying the whole
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- Perfect Cirlce
- Expression of clarity/order overrides function
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Dormitory at Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania |
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Louis Kahn - Analysis of dorm function
- Establishing architecture
- Public spaces purposely distributed
- Strict shapes and formal composition
- Orderly rhythm
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S. Carlo alla Quattro Fontante Rome |
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Borromini - Abiguity
- Facade vs. piazza
- Central organization vs. linear
- Ellipse instead of circle
- Shades of gray (both/and not either/or)
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Denver Museum of Art Colorado |
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Daniel Liebskind - Controversy about confusion
- Disorientation/Instability
- Exciting and dynamic
- "mysterious" light
- No right angles
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Alberti - Technique/technology
- Walls penetrated by holes
- Merging technology
- How forces move
- Weight arried downward
- Logic and analysis
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Gerrit Rietveld - Technology
- Industril
- "house of cards"
- Big windows and sheets of glass
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Centre Pompideau Paris, France |
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Piano and Rogers - Museum for modern art
- Technnology and mechanics
- Exposed structure
- Connections
- Modern Era
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1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ... - Golden Section (.618034)
- Pyramids (5/8)
- Golden Spiral
- DNA, Sunflowers, Pinecones, etc.
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- Equilateral Triangles
- 5/8 ratio
- Same proportion and geometry throughout
- Face N,E,S,W exactly
- Numbers create a structurally sound building
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Claude Ledoux - Perfect environment=Perfect society
- Circles
- Designed around salt functions and its geometric properties
- Rings
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- Elevating a building
- Mysticism/Spirituality
- Economy and Practicality/Efficiency
- Intellectual Puzzle
- Creating an iconic building
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Gunnar Asplund - Elevated the idea of books and language
- Squares and circles
- Enter through center of the circle
- Surrounded by books
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Guggenheim Museum New York |
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Frank Lloyd Wright - Modern art museum
- Make collection have presence in the city
- Squares, circles, triangles
- Plain
- Simple, abstract Geometry
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U.S. Pavilion at Expo Montreal, Canada |
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Buckminster Fuller - Aware of resources
- Least amount of steel used
- Solution: dome
- Hexagon, sphere
- Technological advancement
- Shading to reduce heat absorption
- Early space missions exhibits
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Zollverein School of Design Germany |
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Kazuyo Sejima - Set apart from industrial surrounding
- Squares
- Windows distrbuted differently
- Open Floor Plans
- Light fixtures on a grid
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Capito Buildings Dacca, Bangledesh |
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Louis Kahn - Discontinuous Pakistan=2 capitols
- Abstract geometry
- Cylinders, Squares, Triangles, Circles
- Concrete & Marble
- People transcended old culture and the building became iconic
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Peter Eisenman - Vacation and main houses
- Theory: people can live anywhere (no need for function)
- Names: House 1, House 2, etc.
- Generates form from geometry
- Everything come from a math puzzle
- Intersection of planes, squares, etc.
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- Materials (resources)
- Phenomena (wind, sun, rainfall)
- Patterns of Movement (water, people)
- Physiognomy (forms themselves)
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Wat Arun and Royal Palace Thailand |
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- Extensions of nature
- Markets in canals
- Inspirations: hats, praying hands, graceful dances, wats (Buddhist temples)
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French Impressionist Movement |
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- Light
- Movement
- Texture
- Realistic Design
- Furniture Design
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Antonio Guadi - Apartment building
- Inspired by nature
- Nature is sacred
- Coastline, mountains
- Spider-Web-Like
- No right angles
- Magical Landscape
- Manmade and natural materials are interwoven
- Ventilation using wind towers
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Dipoli Student Union Finland |
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Reia Pietila - Fits into the site
- Boulders taken from surrounding areas
- Heavily treed
- Transparency
- VCanopy
- Interior has natural qualities
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TWA Terminal at Kennedy Airport New York |
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Eero Saarinen - Transatlantic flights
- Flight (Phenomena)
- Birds and Dragons
- Lighter than air feeling
- Movement of people
- Transforming man into bird
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Phaeno Science Center Germany |
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Zaha Hadid - Understanding of science and organisms
- Movement of people under building
- Cave like underneath
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Frank Gehry - Built on a river
- Fluidity, Hydrodynamics, Active water
- Scales and fish
- Rhythm from movement
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St. Ignatius Chapel Seattle |
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Steven Holl Sensual/Visual Form: Curvilinear and juxtaposing shapes, complex space, mysterious light, colors and light, contrasting textures Intellectual Form: Happiness vs. Depression, Light vs. Dark, Sense of clarity and order, extensive technique, complex solutions to catholic ceremonies (seven bottles of light) Geometric/Numerical: golden section, shapes Organic/Nature: growth, light, landscape |
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Museum of Contemporary Art of the XXI Centur Japan |
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Kazuyo Sejima Elements of form: shape in chairs Intellectual: art itself, relaxation areas for relief, perception twisting |
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Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany |
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Daniel Liebskind - Emotional content
- Enter underground (like Jewish victims)
- No direct progression through galleries (disorientation)
- Elements of form: jagged shape, metallic/cold/slick texture, stacatto rhythm, light and darkness
- Garden Piers: meaning through numbers and symbolism through natural soil
- Form depicts Jewish experience
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21st Century Concerns with Site Planning |
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- Energy Consumption
- Resource Consumption
- Land Consumption
- Waste Disposal
- Toxicity
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- Site is about flatness in the midst of mountains
- Connection to the sky and nature (gods)
- Replication of mountains surrounding a valley
- A buildingcan become a part of nature
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- Flat desert landscape with riased cliffs
- Protection against enemies
- Emulates qualities/character of the landscape
- Use the same soil/process to create its structures
- Replicates caves for coolness
- Looed at nature in a technological way
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- Flat coastal plains
- Rock said to be sacred
- Vertical construction
- feel like you're constantly in the landscape
- Drawn on the characteristics of the landscape
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Falling Water Pennsylvania |
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Frank Lloyd Wright - Building "disappears"
- Sedimentary landscape
- Tiers of rock/terraces
- Shaped with tiers of stone and vertical beams
- Materials, color, and shape mimic nature
- Never going outside or inside
- Chameleon quality
- Said to be the most famous and important piece of U.S. architecture
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Condominiums at Sea Ranch California |
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Moore/Lyndon/Turnbull/Whitaker - Vacation homes
- Physical considerations
- "big wooden rock"
- Horizon uninterupted
- Courtyard response to wind
- Structural system and materials used from around the environment
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Frank Lloyd Wright - Desert climate
- Flatness, ruggedness, dryness
- Local stones and materials
- Thermal stability through dugouts
- Combined dugouts and tents
- Infinity of flatland/buildings
- Reaction to the landscape
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- Movement-transportation plan
- Infrastructure-systems below the ground
- Land use-location of functions/districts
- Social services-delivery of social/economic systems
- Environemental-resource planning
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Environment** Experiential Economy |
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Laurence Halprin, planner - Forests away from coast
- Minimizes impervious cover
- Windbreaks for pastures and cattle
- Grass holds soil intact
- Shaped planning
- Minimal instrusions to grass
- Houses built against hedges
- Planning control
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Ian McHarg, planner - Ecologically correct
- Flat, dense clay, pine trees
- Located higher/lower grounds
- "detention ponds" on lower areas to prevent flooding (public spaces)
- Beautified ponds/drainage
- Minimal pavement/street width
- Decking instead of concrete for hardscape
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Hill Towns in Tuscany, Italy |
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- Follow ecological principles
- Gopher systems
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4 Forces (breaking of molecular bonds) |
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- Tension
- Compression
- Bending
- Sheer
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Common Building Materials |
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- Wood (tension and bending)
- Steel (tension, compression, bending)
- Brick (compression, bad in tension/bending)
- Stone/Concrete (similar to brick)
- Reinforced Steel Concrete (bending)
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- Dome relieves compressive loads
- Stone walls
- Transfers loads throughout structure
- Brick, stone, rubble, concrete
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Hagia Sophia Constantinople |
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- Domes more complex
- Semi-domes, vaults, squinches
- Masonry
- Transfer of loads through compression in piers
- Engineering marvel
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Le Corbusier - Utility of compressive structure
- Brick, vaults
- Lateral thrust reinforced by steel
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- Compressive structure
- Thickens as the structure moves down
- Shows how concrete fails/succeeds
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- Aqueduct
- Water forces
- Infrastructure
- Understanding compressive loads
- Delicate at top
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Ames Gate Lodge Massachusetts |
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H.H. Richardson - Local stone gathered
- Keeps physical character
- Sense of strength
- Skinny opennings that are tall
- Wood at top carries roof
- Arches are necessary for structure
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H.H. Richardson - Explanation of different masontry materials
- Rock, stone, brick
- Light at top strategy
- Heavy arches
- Weight transfer
- representation of physical forces of nature
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Morse and Stiles Hall Yale University |
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Eero Saarinan - Heavy masontry (concrete) walls
- Used gothic ideas instead of mimicing gothic design
- Concrete Matrix
- Inventive use of structure
- Context, materials structure, expression
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Strimling House Massachusetts |
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Maurice Smith - Explicit bending structure
- Frame gives house its character
- Wood framing creates expression
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Lake Shore Drive Apartments Chicago |
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Mies van der Rohe - Simple concret grid plan
- Angled strategically to optimize views
- Structural shape to resist forces
- I beams
- Reinforced joints
- Performance and expression steel
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Deereand Co. Headquarters Illinois |
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Eero Saarinan - Steel
- Expresses nature of steel and tractors
- New steel and tractors
- New steel technology
- Strategic building
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- Site work (preparing the ground to receive work)
- Foundation (reinforced concrete)
- Create structural system (beam, columns, walls, etc.)
- Create thermal and moisture barriers (insulation, caulk, etc.)
- Partitions (shaping spaces)
- Systems (electricity plumbing, HVAC, etc.)
- Finishes (paint, marble, carpet, etc.)
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- Pre fabricated roofs
- Streamline
- Hilton Hotel in SA
- Saves time and money
- CAD generated by designer
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- Efficient
- Compressive materials (stone)
- Flying buttress
- Tall spaces (vaults and arches)
- Self scaffolding walls
- Trusses out of wood pegs and hoists
- "divide and conquor"
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S. Maria della Flore Italy |
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Arnolfo di Cambio and Flippo Brunelleschi - 166 years to build
- Pantheond dome was 'lost art'
- Dome was a ribbed drum with 2 layers and chains
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Sydney Opera House Australia |
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Jorn Utzon - 14 years to build
- Steel, concrete, etc. hard to work with
- First building ever modeled on the computer
- Sections of same sphere
- Structural glass library
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- Sun
- Thermal Issues
- Heat zones
- Heat gain
- Ventilation
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Components of Sun's Angles |
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- Altitude (angle to horizon)
- Azimuth (cardinal points)
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Issues in Response to the Sun |
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- Massing
- Fenestration
- Solar Shading
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shape, length, width, height - Long North and South walls
- Short East and West walls
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doors, windows, holes, etc. - Glass on South facade
- North is 2nd best for windows
- East is 3rd best
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catches heat before it reaches the building - Horizontal facing South side (high sun)
- Vertical fins on East and West sides (low sun)
- None on North side
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John Andrews - Strictly follows 3 responses to sun/heat
- Veranda creates circulation
- Courtyard creates a microclimate
- Old technology solves 'new' problems
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Tenneco Building Houston, TX |
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S.O.M. - Solar shading-setting glass back from steel shading on all sides
- Microclimate helps AC costs
- Practical solutions
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Secretariat Building India |
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Le Corbusier - SW worst place-little Surface area, no windows
- Fenestration on SE side
- Solid short ends; solar shaded long ends
- Public spaces are open and ventilated
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Le Corbusier - Short SW wall
- Shading Umbrella
- Terrace on top (usable outdoor space)
- Solar shading takes over when parasol system doesn't work
- Waterway cools breezes
- Intense climate response
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Le Corbusier - SE side has deep porch
- Horizontal and vertical shading
- Assembly spaces track sun
- Calculated interaction between building and sun
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Buildings Responding to the 1970's Energy Crisis |
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- Southern Orientation
- Solar Shading
- Thermal Mass (tubes of water)
- Insulation
- Ventilation/Circulation
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Herzog and de Mueron - Design is a result of understanding building response, climate, and physical considerations
- Precise angles to the sun and strategic building/vine placement
- Almost perfect massing
- Little obstruction to natural drainage
- Clever water distribution
- Massive bearing walls made out of concrete
- Gabions cretae breezes/ventilation
- Connection to natural forces
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Simpson-Lee House Australia |
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Glenn Murcutt - Home for economist couple
- Sensible and sensitive to nature
- Relating to the land through hill curve
- No AC, efficient fireplace and ventilation
- Untouched water run-off
- Pumping system prevents fires
- Pre fabricated steel
- Exposed construction process
- Fenestration hangs over South side
- Big open doors catch breezes
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Factors of Craft (beauty) |
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Ernstings Warehouse Germany |
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Santiago Caletrava - Walls made for economical/structural needs
- Doors hinged at curves create beauty
- Takes necessity and economy to a new level of beauty
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Santiago Caletrava - Lyrical and strong
- Cables carry loads throughout
- Fuid motion
- Suspension element
- Reflection
- Fish-like
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Lyon Airport Station France |
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Santiago Caletrava - Structural forces (trains)
- Glass used for orientation
- Sunshade systems
- Physical forces create the natural form
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City of Arts and Sciences Spain |
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Santiago Caletrava - Fidelity to physical considerations
- Ribbing, rhythm, structure
- Planetarium (climate control and ventiation)
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Santiago Caletrava - 21st century emblem
- 2 parts (concrete-solidity, steel-light)
- Fluidity of concrete
- Diffused vs. direct light
- "wings"
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Athens Olympic Sports Complex Greece |
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Santiago Caletrava - Bridge like arched elements
- New roof in response to needs and physical constraints
- Waved facade
- Water and shade used for climate control
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Reasons for Organization/Designation |
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- Practicality
- "injecting" cultural values/taboos
- Sense of claim and possession
Modern Society - Efficiency and convenience
- Incorporation of permanent achines/appliances
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- Practicality: zoning laws and land-use planning
- Cultural Vales: zoning laws and aldn-use planning
- Claiming: departments in specific
- Efficiency: public transportation
- Machines: acoustics
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Stoughton House Massachusetts |
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H.H. Richardson - Designed around designation
- Front hall very important
- Study, living room, dining room
- Functional
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H.H. Richardson - business vs. casual spaces
- butler/servant bypasses
- Circular dining room for social dinners
- Evening entertainment sequence
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James Stirling - Perfect diagram of its function
- Main desk is immediately visible and accessible
- Expression from function
- Immediate directions upon entrance
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Exeter Library New Hampshire |
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Louis Kahn - Heart of the campus
- Taller than other buildings
- Most public spaces closer to campus
- Ceremonial activities in central locations
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Indian Institute of Management India |
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Louis Kahn - Very large scale
- Architectural character revolves around function
- Designated areas for members of the school
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Books Studying Human Behavior (Apes) |
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Definition
- The Naked Ape-Destiny Morris
- Territorial Imperaative
- Aggression
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3 Relationships Between Behavior and Environment |
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- Conforming Uses
- Implied Uses
- Accommodating Uses
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Baker House Dormitory Massachusetts |
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Alvar Alto - Always thinking about the amenitites for students
- Curves walls created more space for more rooms
- Sensitive to people's situations
- Changes Lives
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Ways We Communicate Meaning |
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- Literal Direct (immediat)
- Literal-Indirect (association-most common)
- Abstract (psychological state)
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- Asserting the dignity of worth of humans
- Promoting the act of self realization
- Reason and logic
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6 Factors in Humanistic Design (Architecture) |
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- Use of plain materials (wood, iron, etc.)
- Sensible construction (reason)
- Comfort; Understanding how the body works
- Practicality and efficiency
- Cleanliness
- Absence of ornament
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Alvar Aalto - TB Patients
- Better life for patients
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Alvar Aalto - different character for different functions
- Even, diffused light throughout
- Librarian surveillance
- Lecture hall with good acoustics
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Resurrection Chapel Finland |
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Erik Bryggman - Soothing funeral chapel
- Soft lines and colors
- Tranquil forrested area
- Sensitivity to grief
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8 Ways to Build A Humane Environment |
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- Convenience
- Accommodation of a wide range of activities
- Wide range of people-accommodation
- Signs of human presence
- Personal or human scale
- Variety of visual experience concurrent with harmony and continuity
- Freedom from intrustion or dstraction
- Periodic natural relief
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Charles Moore - Students had say in dorm design
- Convenient layout
- Intimate scale
- Interlocking with the forests
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Ralph Erskine - Humane living environments
- Creative rennovation
- Mixed apartment sizes
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- Self-contained city
- 5 different architects
- Intricate scale
- Multiple public areas
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San Antonio Riverwalk Texas |
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- Fix for flooding
- Biggest tourist attraction
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Millenium Park-Crown Fountain Chicago |
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- Faces of Chicago
- Water relief
- Refreshing water plaza
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- Religious Center
- Sense of sexuality without taking away from Hindu teachings/beliefs
- Litral-direct communication
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University of Virginia Charlottesville (vs. Pantheon, Rome) |
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Thomas Jefferson - Center for diverse students
- Pretige and power
- Unification of student body
- Connection with power
- Order, Character, Dignity
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- Tower
- Focal Balcony
- Arcade
- Courtyard
- Stairs
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- Center of Venice
- Sense of Importance and authority
- Public/Private feeling
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Michelangelo - Ensemble with new and existing buildings
- 5 Elements
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Ragnar Otsber - Promminent Location
- 5 Elements
- Civic Quality
- Indoor courtyard for climate
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Kallman, McKinne4ll and Knowles |
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St. Mary's Church San Francisco |
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Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi - Away from traditional church
- Focus shifted from priest to God
- Ascends to heavens
- Hyperbolic parabaloid reinforced with trusses
- Vertical Focus
- Abstract Communication
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S.O.M. - Landmark
- Physical manifestation of LBJ
- Acoustics, elements of form, etc.
- Bigger than life; great power
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Austin Bergstom International Airport Austin, TX |
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- Massing and shaping comes from designation of use
- Intuitive directions
- Art creates humanistic qualities
- Friendly, soft features
- Representative of Austin
- Indoors feel like outdoors
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David Adjae - Disguised Library
- Heavily commuted
- Jumps
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Stata Center @ MIT Massachussetts |
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Frank Gehry - Aggressive form
- Heighten social status of Computer Science students
- Functional
- Informal Workspace
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John Hancock Building Boston, MA |
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I.M. Pei - Insurance Company
- Beautiful sculpture reflective of nature
- Strong in terms of form
- Terrible in humanism, climate response, and structure
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Louis Kahn - Pure geometry
- Strong in terms of form
- Inhumane and insensitive
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Housing at La Defense France |
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Emile Aillaird - Amoeba-shaped
- Small apartments
- Bad ventilation
- No room for furniture
- Irregular shape
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James Stirling - Good for function
- Bad reponse to climate (leaky glass)
- UV sunlight
- Bad in physical considerations
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Lucien Kroll - Humanistic-listened to clients
- Mismatched designs
- Nightmare in physical considerations
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Kresge Auditorium Massachusetts |
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Eeron Saarinen - Experimental performance space
- Perfect example of form through dome
- Doesn't fit within campus
- Disorientation
- Bad acoustics
- Not accessible for performance groups
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Piano and Rogers - Impressive Physical Considerations
Not a good shape for auditoriums Distracting exterior draws attention from paintings Hard to navigate throughout exhibits Looks dirty Eyesore in a historic district
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Edwin Walker - Capitol placed on hill for importance
- Grid structure
- Basic elements/solutions delivered throught basic underlying structural system
- All problems solved
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James Oglethorpe - Prisoner colony
- Houses oriented towards center of the ward
- Human factors made the prisoners feel like citizens
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Central Beheer Offices Holland |
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Herman Hertzberg - Smaller quads create unique grid
- Soving several technical issues
- Flexible privacy
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Kimball Art Museum Fort Worth, TX |
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Louis Kahn - Best building in Texas
- Tube of space, grid system, vaults, etc.
- Linear quality of shape
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Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, TX |
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Tandeo Ando - Tubes of space with Y frames
- Series of galleries
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- De Young Museum
- Library in Seattle
- Vals
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