TOA2 - TRADITIONALISM AND NEW URBANISM

TRADITIONALISM

- opposition to modernism

KING CHARLES III

- vocal critic of modernist architecture

- campaigned to stop giant glass

CARBUNCLE SPEECH

- speech of king charless iii that denounced a high-tech winning design for the national gallery extension as a 'monstrous carbuncle'

A VISION OF BRITAIN

- ten principles of king charles

NEW URBANISM

- seeks to join the traditional virtues of the american small town with the planning principles of the english garden movement

GOAL OF NEW URBANISM

- create walkable, mixed-use communities that uplift human spirit

ROBERT DAVIES

- initiated new urbanism

ANDRES DUANY AND ELIZABETH

- architects responsible for the masterplan of seaside, usa

SEASIDE, USA

- radial plan centered on a town center with shops

- houses built with time-tested materials

- walkability of 10-minute walk of home and work

STRUCTURALISM

- reaction to CIAM and FUNCTIONALISM

- emphasize that cultural elements must be understood in relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure

ALDO VAN EYCK

"a house must be like a small city if it's to be a real houase, a city must be like a large house if its to be a real city"

AMSTERDAM ORPHANAGE

- ALDO VAN EYCK

- a decentralized urban node using two modules

- small for residence and large for community spaces

- utilize in between condition to break down the hierarchy of space

HERMAN HERTZBERGER

- focused on the distinction between a long-life structure and shorter-life infills

"such a home should not be an appliance, like a shaver, but an instrument, like a vilin that only starts to sound in the user's hand"

DIAGOON HOUSING

- HERMAN HERTZBERGER

- experimental family home

- half-product housing, where resident should be able to arrange, expand, finish and furnish the houses themeselves

APOLLO SCHOOLS

- HERMAN HERTZBERGER

- two identical schools in Amsterdam

- designed as villa style building

- classrooms are groupes around a central hall

PEIT BLOOM

- did not have a prolific career

- rarely willing to compromise his unconventional ideals

- steadfast to structuralist principles

- he strove to dissolve the attitude 'a building has to be recognizable as a house for it to qualify as housing'

KUBUSWONINGEN / CUBE HOUSE

- PIET BLOM

- elevated the living units on pylons to maximize public space below

DE KASBAH

- PIET BLOM

- conglomerate of 184 houses raised on stilts