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48 Cards in this Set
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Bangladesh National Capital
-Louis I. Kahn -Dhaka, Bangladesh 1962~1983 -assembly building -society of rooms -scale, bigger than humanity, but still maintaining human scale, hint of fascist scale -play of light/shadow |
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Barragán House
-Luis Barragán -Mexico City, Mexico 1947 -Plans, line color! |
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Boston City Hall
-Paul Rudolph -Boston, Mass, 1969 |
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima
-Oscar Niemeyer (1907) -Brasilia, Brazil 1959~1970 -Seductive curves. -Intuitive understanding of structure. -Bee box glass -Strong sense of centrality |
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Church of Christ the Worker
-Eladio Dieste(engineer). -Atlantida, Uruguay, 1958 -his first work -curvy and undulating brick wall, the one you’ve seen before -little rectangle windows -form of the structure is also the form of the building |
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Church of Saint Francis of Assisi
-Oscar Niemeyer -Pampulha, Brazil 1943 -concrete shells/vaults, one larger than the other -inside of vaults cladding in red wood contrasted to blue exterior -mural at end of vaults -surreal modernist |
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Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -Chicago, Illinois 1950-1956 -roof suspended from 120ft long girders -no structure needed in building |
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Deere & Company Headquarters
-Eero Saarinen -Moline, Illinois 1955~64 -Fully engaged with his client -Variation of the glass box with a sense of blending in the landscape -It is organic in a way that it is environmentally concerned but constructed with steel and glass -Using Core-10 which rusting over time, it reduces maintenance fee etc. -man-made lake -quality of aging with rust, and patina to prevent further rust -corten, not much maintenance required -less of a sterile corporate feel -sun screens for shading |
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Dulles International Airport
- Eero Saarinen -Chantily Virginia, 1958-1962 -idea of lounges that drive from terminal to airplane, so passengers don’t have to walk far |
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Eames House(case study house No.8),
-Charles(1907-1978) and Ray(1912-1988) Eames -Pacific Palisades CA 1948-1949 -Prefab, standardized kids of parts -Identified as a California type of life -Panels are different in size, opacity and color framed by black steel frame. -Modular, use of kids of parts -Different from Farnsworth House, here is about personality and playfulness. |
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Egerstrom Residence And Stables
(San Cristobal) -Luis Barragán -Mexico City, 1968 -Use openings as aperture but maintain the planetary. -color integral to experience |
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Engineering Building,Leicester University
-James Stirling -Leicester, England 1959-1963 -pulling influence from constructivist, parts representing function -interplay between axes, almost mannerist approach to machine -futurist revival |
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Exeter Library
-Louis I. Kahn -Exeter, New Hampshire(1965~1972) -central void space(boulle’s second project for the library of the king(1785)) -highly influence by Parinizey, Ledou, Boullee -architecture create reality. -“what was, has always being. what is, has always being, what will be, has always being.” -reinforce concrete -enter though diagonal, reviewing the layers of the construction. -Lobby: Square, detail in a way that shows the construction. Hold up book shelfs, truth and geometry, skylights, dramatic light and shadow -returning to designing for that particular program -peoples encounter with books -central space, where person is in presence of all books -reading carrols at exterior/periphery, book stacks, then central space -kahn is a student of history, paranese, boulee, ledoux -boulees second project for library of the king -comparable to larkin building -3 parts have their own materials, carrols is exterior load bearing bricks, stacks is concrete, central space is air and light -entering off axis, at the diagonal -see building plan/diagram in the ceiling of central space |
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Farnsworth House
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -Plano, Illinois 1945-1951 -Weekend home, not practical -Clearest expression of Mies domestic work. -Asymmetrical, simple expression, rational. -Steel structure being exposed(good idea, but not practical, create thermal bridge) -Core is the only element of the house that divide space. -Column as the only ornament of the building (almost unthinkable). -“Simplicity of construction, completely honest to the Material,” -Fling the interior to the landscape. -Visual is more important but selfless in a way. -“A more profound significant than it would viewed from outside” ---Mies |
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Gandhi Ashram Memorial Museum
-Charles Correa -Ahmadabad, India, 1958-1963 -series of open pavilions and breezeways -concrete shells, wood planks, brick piers -influence of kahn and corb |
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Glass House(Johnson House)
-Philip Johnson -New Caanan, Connecticut(1949-1950) -Ornamentation as the repetition and manipulation of steel column. -Small monumental structure. -Low foundation, Black steel frame, -More contained than Farnsworth House: Well defined edge, Symmetrical in four direction, -steel as decoration, vs mies using steel as expressed structural beauty -8 black wide flange columns, compared to Farnsworth 8 white columns |
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Guggenheim Museum
-Frank Lloyd Wright -New York, New York 1943-1959 -on 5th avenue, near central park -organic architecture -inverted building -oculus of pantheon -spectator of people |
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Habitat 67
-Moshe Safdie (1938) -World’s Fair, Montreal, Quebec 1967 -Modular Pre-fab constriction -Fragment monumentality -Outdoor deck, interesting lighting, roof terries |
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House on the Stream
-Amancio Williams -Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1943-1945 -house spans over a stream -concrete shell spans the house, is the structural element of the bridge -POOCHER GO BARK!!!!!!!!!!!! -roof terrace -carefully integrated into site |
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Indian Institutes of Management
-Louis I. Kahn -Ahmedabad, India 1962~74 -Reversed arch for earthquake -Rhythm of light and shadow |
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Ingalls Rink
-Eero Saarinen -New Haven, CT, Yale Uni.1956-1958 -whale, beetle, overturned ship -sweeping concrete ridge for structure -yale whale -structural efficiency and expression |
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Jefferson National Memorial
Gateway Arch -Eero Saarinen -St Luis1947-1966 -prefab sections that puzzle together -both sides going up at same time -carbon steel int skin and stainless steel ext skin |
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Kimbell Art Museum
-Luis I kahn -Fort Worth, Texas, 1966-1972 -one of kahn's greatest works, one of the greatest works of the 20th c. -breaks the vault in half, slit at the top middle brings in light -in elevation, gap between infill and structure, again letting in light -light and shadow and passage of time -truth in geometry, honesty of materials -simultaneous quality of modern and ancient qualities -timelessness of mass and structure |
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Lake Shore Drive Apts
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -Chicago, Illinois (1948 to 1951) -contractual, very little to do with site and lot shape -Cartesian space, Cartesian means new (vs euclidian) -rethinking core, dispersing a little structure to the exterior |
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Lever House
-Skidmore, Owings and Merrill -New York, New York 1952 -Lever company that makes soap -wanted a ‘clean’ building, so used glass |
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
-Max Abromovitz -NYNY, 1962 |
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MIT Chapel
-Eero Saarinen -MIT,Cambridge, Massachusetts 1950-1955 -bringing in natural daylight -flickering and mesmerizing light |
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Miller House
-Eero Saarinen -Columbus, Indiana,1953-1957 -his finest domestic work -important functions at corners, leaving center open -skylights -Dan Kiley did landscape, famous landscape designer, Eero worked well with other famous dudes |
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Ministry of Education and Health
-Oscar Niemeyer -Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1936-1943 -Corb was a design consultant -curtain wall, and building raised with pilots -operable sunscreen louvers, undersides painted |
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National Congress (Brasilia)
-Oscar Niemeyer -Brasillia,Brazil 1958 -part of the plaza -sits on the monumental axis -legislative towers comparable to UN -sits in a bowl site, roof flush with horizon, ramp up to roof -bowl and dome |
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Royal National Theater (London)
-Dennis Lasdun -London, 1967-1976 -Invert the idea of what the theater meant -Low profile courtyard spaces and terraces, blur line between space of public appearance vs theatrical performance |
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Neue Staatsgalerie
-James Stirling -Stuttgart, Germany 1977-1984 -demonstrates classicism -blue and red rails contrast the stone, colors juxtaposed -reads as a composition of form -beaux arts mentality of plan revealing itself rather than façade (i.e. corbu) |
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New Gourna Village
-Hassan Fathy -New Gourna, Egypt 1946-1953 -low cost energy efficient homes -rejected concrete -make roofs that last -discovered an ancient technique to make bigger span roofs -humanitarian work -cultivate traditional craft by using local sundried bricks -made by users themselves |
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Pilgrimage Church
-Gottfried Bohm -Neviges Germany, 1963-1972 |
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Price Tower
-Frank Lloyd Wright -Bartlesville, Oklahoma 1952-1956 -copper louvers -human scaled, multi-use tower, intimate scale -the building is a tree |
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Richards Medical Research Laboratories
-Louis I. Kahn -Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1957-1965 -precast concrete, cast in place concrete, all together |
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Saint John's Abbey Church
-Marcel Breuer -Collegeville, Minnesota, 1958-1961 -thin concrete but still monumental -bell ‘wall’ tower -concrete as relief from all the glass and steel |
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Saint Mary's Cathedral
-Kenzo Tange -Tokyo, Japan, 1962-1965 -cross in plan -concrete exposed in the interior -sweeping triangles in elevation -steel on the outside |
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Salk Institute of Biological Science
-Louis Kahn -La Jolla, California 1959-1965 -power of central space -separations of services -virtuoso use of concrete |
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Sangath
-Balkrishna Doshi -Ahmedabad, Gujarat State, India 1979-1981 -appropriate modern look to india -home studio |
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Seagram Building
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -New York, New York 1954-1958 -one of the most elegant skyscrapers -glass and dark bronze, coated in bronze -travertine tile plaza with reflecting pools, plaza always full of people -set back from 5th avenue -across the street from Lever House |
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Stahl House (case study 22)
-Pierre Koenig -Los Angeles, California 1959-1960 -expressed steel frame and metal decking -intended homes to be mass produced and affordable, envisioning post war America |
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TWA Terminal, JFK airport
-Eero Saarinen -New York, New York 1956-1962 -concrete shells and piers -lots of research |
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United Nations Headquarter
-Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz -NYC, New York 1949-1950 -actually on international territory -instrument and symbol of world piece -conference building (the other one, on the east river), general assembly (sweeping building), secretariat (skyscraper) -secretariat- one of the first skyscrapers of primarily glass |
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Whitney Museum of Ameriacan Art
-Marcel Breuer & Assocs - New York , 1964-1966 -idea of ziggurat but inverted -hollow below, substantial on top, hollow for plaza, substantial on top for more gallery space |
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Yale University Art & Architecture Building
-Paul Rudolph -New Haven Connecticut,1959-1963 |
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Yale University Art Gallery
-Louis Kahn -New Haven, Connecticut 1951-1953 -entrance rethought, slipping through off axis -monolithic -ceiling plan -relationship between structure and form -articulation of masses |
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Yoyogi National Gymnasium
-Kenzo Tange -Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan 1961-1964 -domination of the face |