Mod Global Urbanism

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“Tower of Babel”

1550

BREUGEL THE ELDER

The Alhambra MOORISH

Spain 1300s

• garden = paradise in persian tradition

• 4 quadrants = 4 rivers of paradise

• walls to enclose space

St. Peter’s Square

BERNINI

Italy

Royal Saltworks

LEDOUX

France

1770s

• semicircular plan

Maison Dom-ino

LE CORBS

1910s prototype

• domus + innovation

• repeated tiles like dominoes

Arch Building

CARMEN & CORREIL

1960s

Robie House

FLW

1900s

• prairie style

Fagus Factory

GROPIUS & MEYER

Germany

1910s

Liberty leading the people

DELACROIX

1830s

Royal Pavillion

NASH

UK 1810s

• cast iron construction - brittle

• pre steel era

• regency style

Taj Mahal

India

1630-50

• indo-islamic style

• white marble

The Elgin Marbles

-taken by lord elgin

(Parthenon) Athens Greece

5th century

• travelling of the elite, bringing ideas and art home

Sir John Soane House

SIR JOHN SOANE

1840s

• considered neoclassical

• georgian and regency

• collecting artifacts

Piranesi Prints

1770s

• lost grandeur

• immense posibilities of architecture as monument

St.Marks Square

Venice

1000-1600

• venetian gothic

• renaissance

• depicts venice’s position between east and west

• doge’s palace - government

• eve sculpture

Neuschwanstein Castle

Germany

1870-90

• neo-romanesque

• romanticist

Seaside, Florida

DPZ Architects

1960s

• new urbanist

• traditional

• 400m walkability radius

• supporting walkable blocks

• urban infill project

Seabird Island Community school

PATKAU ARCH

1989

BC, Canada

• critical regionalism

• indigenous

• responding to the climate

Marika-Alderton House

MURKUTT

Australia

Glasgow School of Art

MACKINTOSH

1900s

Scotland

• arts and crafts movement

Viennese Secessionist Building

OLBRICH

1900

Vienna, Austria

• art nouveau

Dancing House (“Fred and Ginger”)

GEHRY

1990s

Prague

• post modern/deconstructivist

• keeping the window rhythm of the surrounding buildings

The Eiffel Tower

EIFFEL

1889

• not steel but iron (pre-steel)

• skeleton frame

• hated by parisians at first

Institut du Monde Arabe

NOUVEL

1980s

Paris France

Frank Gehry House

GEHRY

1978

California

• first example of deconstructivist architecture

Hausmann Plan for Paris

1850s

HAUSMANN

• streets too wide to barricade

• radiating streets

• height limits set for the city

Pompidou Center

RENZO PIANO WOrKSHOP

1970s

Paris France

• post modern

• buildings becoming figural

• inside our design

the Guggenheim Museum

GEHRY

1990s

Bilbao Spain

deconstructivist

Nolli Map of Rome

NOLLI

1750s

• first time orientating north up

• understandable density through contrast

• improvement of accuracy

“transect map”

map to create zoning without car dependency

Salk Institute

KAHN

1960s

• Barragan: no trees, sky becomes the third plane

town plan for brasilia

COSTA

1950-60

• capital accessible to the whole country

• airplane inspired???

• designed for car centric society

Buildings for Brasilia

NIEMEYER

1960s

• adapting western modern architecture

Satellite City Towers

BARRAGAN & GOERITZ

Mexico City

1950s

• sculpture more than a building

• planar and colorful

Barragan House

BARRAGAN

1960s

Mexico City

• framing the sky

Plan for Chandigarh

LE CORBS & JEANNERET

India

1950s

• against gandhis principles

High Court Building

LE CORBS

India

1950s

Notre Dame du Haut (Ronchamps)

LE CORBS

France

1950s

Assembly Building

India

1950s

LE CORBS

• low costs, constructed out of concrete on site

Sangath (office)

DOSHI

india

1980s

-returning to primary forms in space

• the only indian architect to get internationally recognized

National Assembly

KAHN

Bangladesh

1960-80

• concrete poured over marble

  • ensuring concrete with no air pockets

• clustered assembly of concrete towers

• influence of french neo-classicism

New Gourna Village

FATHY

Egypt

1940s

• village designed from the ground up

• semi public spaces account for animals

Nakagin Capsule Tower

KUROKAWA

1970s

• metabolist not nationalist (buildings as organisms)

• prefabricated blocks

• windows like apertures