LA 314 Final People

Margery Kempe

14-15th c

common english women who went on pilgrimage

reveals information about pilgrimage networks and medieval connectivity and economy

Cosimo de’ Medici

14th-15th c

political figure in florence

commissioned palaces and villas to consolidate power

Leon Battista Alberti

15th c

first major renaissance architectural theory

classical revival, rules for urban planning: location, infastrucutre, defense, public health

Marc-Antoine Laugier

18th c

architectural theorists of the englightenment

enlightenment thought influence on arcitecture: nature and reason, neoclassicism, primitive hut

King Louis XIV

17th c

french absolutist monarch

built bersailles; used to centralize power

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

18th c

desinged the royal saltwork

vissionary architecture; industrial urbanism

ideal city where people worked where they lived

Capability Brown

first to call himslef a landscape architet

created the anturalist english landscape garden style

enlightenment ideals of reason and nature

national idenity

Richatd Oswalkt

18th c

merchant and plantation owener

owner of bance island; part of slave trade network

Friedrich Engels

19th c

documented the woking class of manchester

highlights exploitation of industrial capitalism, class strugle, anf urban poverty

Baron Haussman

19th c

remade paris with boulevards and sewers

circulation, modernatizate, state power

Robert Owen

New lanark

concerned with conditiond of workers

environment shapes character

lmiting sizes of communities

George Cadbury

19th c

chocolate manufacturer

moved facotry to countryside and built cottages for its workers

concerned with worker welfare

lever brother

port sulights

model village

facotries offices and village for employees

each residential black has a garden

Fredrick Law Olmsted

19th c

landscape architecg designed central park

naturalistic design,new type of urban space that serves the city

inspired desinged of other american cities

Daniel Burnham

american city planner

plan of chicago 20th c

city beautiful movement, civic centers, boulevards

pierre enfant

19th c

designed washington dc

focus on axial planning. radials, vistas between important buildinfs

booker t washington

black educator

gave atlanta compromise speech about future of souther states

wanted people to reach equal rights but they could remain seperate

le corbusier

modenist architect

radian city, multifamily housing with commiunity sapaces and green space

meis van der rohe

modersnist architect

barcelona pavillion open plan

differnt material

ildfonso cerda

19th c

sapnish urban planner designed barcelonas expansion

grid beyond original walls, diagnal avenues, cut corners