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Trinity Church, NY 1846

Richard Upjhon

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Old South Church, Boston

Cummings and Sears Architects

1873

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MFA (old) Boston

Sturgis and Brigham

1874

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Memorial Hall, Harvard

Ware and Van Bront

1874

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John Ruskin
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English Artist and Art Critic

Wrote in englan about ills of industrialization

NOT A FAN OF INDUSTRILIZATION!

This took hold in america post civil war

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Fredric Olmsted

 

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first landscape architect

Designed Central park, Black Bay fens, 1st Subarbs (chicago)-Riverside

Got ideas from Birkhend Park

Worlds Columbian Expodition (1893)

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Romanitism/Pictureque
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emphisies emotion and imagination

ment to look random/casual but really thought out

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Thomas Jefferson
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Brought Architecutre to America

Paladio- plans from villas (montichello)

Renissance man, highly educated

Came back with ideas from France, england, Italy

 Shift with AMERICAN ideals

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US Capital Building

5 Architects - Letrobe, Thomas W Walter,Bultrude, Washington

Finished in 1865 by walter

Symbol that north was gonna be one nation (growing) 

Dome = St pauls cathedrial (triple dome)

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US Capital

Jeffersons Preposal

Dome, collinade

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Mass State House-1798

Bulfinch

First to call himself architect

Federal Architecture (brick Domestic)

French and English Presidents

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Neoclassicalism
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Take ideas of baroque

takeing classical ideals

i.e. Dome (brunelleski)

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Richard Moris Hunt 

1827-1895

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"Guilded age cottages"--show wealth

 

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John A Griswald House

Designed by Riachard Morris Hunt

Newport, RI

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Indiana State Capital Building

Town and Davis, 1825

Not as "gracefull"

Pediments

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Thomas G. Aplleton House

Richard Morris Hunt

Newport, RI 1870

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The Breakers

Richard Morris Hunt

Newport, RI 1892

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Biltmore, 1895

Richard Morris Hunt-house and landscape

Ashmore, NC

Largest House in US

French Chatau

1000 Acres 

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, 1897

Richard Morris Hunt

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Frank Furness

(1839-1912)

 

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-Student of Richard Morris Hunt

-Didnt get along with clients

-Wanted to express iron structure without covering it

-Believed in industialization

-Search for American Architecture not just European Expression

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Pennsylvania Acadamy of Arts, 1876 

Frank Furness 

indeviualistic interpritation

gothic revival ideals

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Fisher Fine Arts Library, Phialdelphia, 1891

Frank Furness

"boat like"

 

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William Watts Serman House, Newport, 1875

H.H. Richardson

 

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H.H. Richardson 

(1836-1886)

 

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-formal ideas becaome part of ameican search for style

-americanized and personalized

-studided at ’Ecole des Beaux Arts

-random layouts, not 'rigimented'

-Caught in delema (progress/old ideals)

-looks like hagrid

 

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Trinity Church, Boston, 1873

H.H. Richardson

-Anti-modern movement (Boston)

-Historical Revival (Religiously Centered)

-Looks Back--Church

 

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Stoughton House, Cambridge, 1883

H.H. Richardson

"shingle house"

 

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H.A.C. Taylor House, Newport, 1886

McKim, Mead, White

Calonial Revival

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Isaac Bell House, Newport, 1883

McKim, Mead, White

gable roof

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Law House, Bristol, RI 1887

McKim, Mead, White

neoclassic establishment

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Villard Houses, NYC 1882

Wealthy New Yorkers who were well traveled

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Boston Public Library, Boston 1895

McKim, Mead , White

based on centrilized courtyard

show cultured people

Alberi's Palazzo Rusella (1400ish)

Renissance Influence

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Old Pennsylvania Station, 1910

McKim, Mead and White

Large Thermal Windows

Central Pavillion with Pediments

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World's Columbian Exposition

In Chicago, 1893

Main Building-Olmstead

Transportation Building-Louis Sullivan

Administration Building-Richard Morris Hunt

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19th Century Shift
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Conflict, intense intelectual, old ideas challenges, experimentation, invention

Classical ideals both redesigned and premoted

-move away from old ideals

-premote old ideas (democracy, knowledge)

-coexisting, sometimes one outways other

-started from age of enlightenment(enginerring)

 

 

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Royal Guard House, Berlin 1817

Karl Friedrich Schiankel

Pediment

Large, strong columbs

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Schauspielhaus, Berlin 1818

Schiankel

-germany not yet a country

Theater

greek revival

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Altes Museum, Berlin 1828

Schiankel

Repetitive Columbs (large)

Old ideals on new building type (museum)

Remind of Boullee- simple yet strong (prototype)

 

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Bank of England (1788-1833)

Sir John Soane

-huge building (whole block)

-not large opening (security)--still wanted light

-thermal windows, dome, skylights, classical nitches, no electrisity

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Bank of England (interior)

Sir John Soane

What are make up the interior, classical ideals?

 

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Roman Catholic Cathedral, Baltimore 1805

Benjamin LatrobeLatrobe

-wanted to get away from Catholic Church

and church in general

-neoclassical

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Gothic Revival
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AWN Pusin (Arch) and John Ruskin(Artist)

Saw ill's in industrialization 

Believed in proper moral and religious values

**Industrialization vs Religion

I.R. Corrupted the world

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House of Parlament, London 1838

AWN Pugin and Charles Barry

-gothic style

-next to westminster abby

-takes whole block (needed to make sense)

 

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Age of Iron In Architecture (I.R.)
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-Added to conflict of I.R. 

-I.R. was not going to stop

-refabrication , mass preduction, preassembly etc.

 

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Crystal Palace, London 1851

Sir Joseph Paxton

-not done by Architect (budget, time, land)

-show them I.R. is not gonna stop/slow

-prefabrication, mass production, preassembly

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Biblioteque Ste. Geneviere, Paris 1851

Henri Letrouste

-thin columbs, support iron structure inside

 

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Effel Tower, Paris 1889

Gustsve Eiffel

-almost universally hated

-peice of enginerring

-iron and steel (calculated not emperical)

-ment to be easily dissasembeled (never was)

-Needed for industrialization/develpment (art)

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Mr. Otis's Invention
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ELEVATOR (safety)

-Fire Proofing (needed)

*Terrocotta covering of iron*

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W. Watts Sherman House, Newport 1875

H. H. Richardson

-Vernacular

-Same time as Trinity Church

-Work with what learned and respond to whats gong on

 

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Stoughton House, Cambridge 1884

H. H. Richardson

-New England Materials (eco-friendly)

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Glassner House, Chicago 1885

H. H. Richardson

-Arts and Crafts interior

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Ames Free Library, North Easton 1878

H. H. Richardson

-large/strong archway entry

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Oakes Ames Memorial Library, North Easton 1879

H. H. Richardson

-strong, stone arches

 

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Ames Gate Lodge, North Easton 1881

H. H. Richardson

-Rough Stone Work

-Drive through arch

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Thomas Crane Memorial Library, Quincy 1882

H. H. Richardson

-Large, Stone Archway

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Sever Hall, Harvard 1878

H. H. Richardson

-large stone arch entryway

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Austin Hall, Harvard 1881

H. H. Richardson

-Richardson Romantic

-Strong Arched Entryway

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Alleghen Country Court House, Pittsburg 1883

H. H. Richardson

-large front tower

-Large arched entryway

-Center courtyard

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Marshall Feild Wholesale Store, Chicago 1886

H. H. Richardson

-one of last works

-mix of iron and stone (exterior)

-coming around to industrialization

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Brooklyn Bridge, 1883

John Augustus Roebins

-stone towers (medevil imagination)

-mix of wires/suspension bridge

 

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Elevator Buildings
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Chicago Fire = New City

 

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The Chicago School 1885

Wm. LeBaron Jenney

-"First" Skyscraper

-Metal structure, iron and steel

-fire proofing

-Elevator

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The Rookery, Chicago 1886

Burnham and Root

-Richardsonian Romanesque

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The Monadnock Block 1884-1891

Burnham and Root

-New building  >6 stories 

-people didnt wanna walk up (elevator)

-stone exterior

-just to make $, not to look pretty

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The Reliance Building, Chicago 1894

Burnham and Company

-iron starting to be expressed exertiorly

-vertical emphisis

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Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago 1894

Adler and Sullivan

-Sullivan went to Chicago becasue "anything goes"

-vertical emphisis

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Wainwright Building, St. Louis 1891

Sullivan

-Metal Skeleton

-Buildings now had steel structure

-vertical emphisis

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Auditorium Building, Chicago 1886

Adler and Sullivan

-looking at European Ideals

-Mix of design ideas (all architects)

-Many Different Functions Needed

(office, preformence, mechanical)

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Louis Sullivan

(1856 -1924)

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-Influenced by Richardsons Wholesale Building

-Struggled with what he saw (rejection, didnt know)

-What should a tall building be?

-"Direct and Honest Expression"

**Express Verticallity**

->Top = Mechanical

->Middle = Office

->lower = Commercal

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Guaranty Building, Buffalo 1894

Louis Sullivan

-Vertical Emphisis

-Horizontal emphisis only on lower levels

-created levels (3)--not main focus

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Frank Lloyd Wright

(1867-1959)

 

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-Worked for Adler and Sullivan (apprentis)

-Struggled in early life to find place

-Tried enginerring NO

-Sullivan didnt like him working on own projects

 

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Charnley House, Chicago 1891

Adler and Sullivan/Frank Lloyd Wright?

-both claim credit

-horizontal emphisis (Lloyd)

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Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park IL 1889

-strong expression of gable roof 

Richardson Inspired

-low house

-Serlion windows

-Shingle Sidding and Roof

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Winslow House, Oak Park IL 1893

Frank Lloyd Wright

-Car port (wealthy cliants)

-Front door like Charnley House (Sullivan)

-Roof overhang (eve) = shade upper level

-like palazzo medici--EVE

-organized with fireplace

 

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Ward Willits House, Highland Park IL 1901

Frank Lloyd Wright

-Central Chimney

-Open floor space

-'Spill' onto site

-Horizontal Emphisis

-DeepEve

**Prarrie House Ideals**

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Heurtley House, Oak Park IL 1902

Frank Llyod Wright

-Low, wide chimney

-Low roof line

-Deep Eve

-Roman Brick (thin & wide) = horizontal emphisis

-Deep Rusticated Arch

 

 

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Preposal For A Prarie House
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-1901 designs for elegant, inexpensive, suburban homes in Ladies Home Journal

-Central Chimneys

-Arms of plan radiate into landscape

-Carports (middle-class)

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Prairie House

Preposal by Frank Lloyd Wright - 1901

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Robie House, Chicago 1910

-looks like Berlin Peck Library

-In middle of city, NOT prairie

-Deep overhanging eves = cantalevers (welded steel)

-Bands of windows

-Raised above street level

 

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Unity Temple, Oak Park 1908

Frank Lloyd Wright

-Horizontal emphisis

-Busy street

-"Hide" interiors = skylights

-Concrete Building

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Larking Building, Buffalo 1902

Frank Llyod Wright

-For middle class jobs-nice enviorment 

-More vertical emphisis

-Skylights

-People work in natural light

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Taliesen House, Spring Green WI 1911

Frank Lloyd Wright

-"Hobbit" house

- Landscaping encorperated

-one side on top of hill (overlooking)

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Imperial Hotel, Tokyo 1912

Frank Lloyd Wright

-Horizontally 

-Repetitive windows

-Earth quake 'proof'

 

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Hollyhock House, LA, CA 1916

Frank Lloyd Wright

-Concrete (pattern in it)

-Not a praire house

-Responds to enviorment ->forced inward

 

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Usonian House, Okemos MI 1939

Frank Lloyd Wright

-Build after WWI almost WWII

-Small home = middle class

-Easy to get materials

-Own contractor/Become one

-Central floor plan (chimney)

 

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Falling Water/Edgar Kaufman Residence

Bear Run, PA 1938

Frank Lloyd Wright

-Horizontal emphisis

-Responds to landscape

-Built into waterfall/stream

-Open floor plan (inside; inside->outside)

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Taliesen West, Scottsdale AZ 1938

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Johnson Wax Building, WN 1939

Frank Lloyd Wright

-Buisness Place

-Descent work enviorment

-No obvious orderment

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Guggenheim Museum, NYC 1959

 Frank Lloyd Wright

-Inegration Functions, form, space

-Weird

 

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