Modern Architecture: Exam 4

International Style, Wright and Le Corbusier Late Work, Alvar Alto, Kahn and Scarpa, Postmodern

Schindler/Chace House (King’s Road House)

• West Hollywood, 1921

• by Rudolph Schindler

• communal living for two couples

Lovell Beach House

• Los Angeles, 1923

• by Rudolph Schindler

• Schindler had an affair with Lovell’ wife

Lovell House

• Hollywood Hills, 1927

• by Richard Neutra

• balconies for nude sun bathing and communal showers (key in “healthy living”)

Eames House

• Pacific Palisades, 1945

• by Charles Eames

• prefabricated war housing

Glass House

• New Canaan, 1949

• by Phillip Johnson (was a nazi)

• Johnson was gay and tried to pick Hendrix up once

United Nations Headquarters

• NYC, 1937

• by Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz

• white Vermont marble and green tinted glass

Lever House

• NYC, 1951

• by Gordon Bunshaft

• inspired by the UN Complex

Fallingwater

• Mill Run, 1934

• by Frank Lloyd right

• designed this in two hours

Broadacre City

• 1934

• by Frank Lloyd Wright

• his idea for urban planning

• hardcore socialist

Johnson Wax

• Racine, 1936

• by Frank Lloyd Wright

• he designed all the furniture and it was so uncomfortable he had to redesign it all

Taliesin West

• Scottsdale, 1938

• by Frank Lloyd Wright

• had really low ceilings because he was a short king

Guggenheim Museum

• NYC, 1943

• by Frank Lloyd Wright

• last ever project, worked on it for 15 years

Unite d’Habitation

• Marsai, 1947

• by Le Corbusier

• designed to house 2000 people, had shopping too so you never have to leave

Notre Dame at Ronchamp

• Ronchamp, 1950

• by Le Corbusier

• he became very religious after the war and built this chapel

Chandigarh

• India, 1951

• by Le Corbusier

• the public didn’t like it because it referenced shanti architecture and they didn’t want a reminder of poverty

Shodhan House

• Ahmedabad, 1956

• by Le Corbusier

• fusion of purism and critical regionalism

Carpenter Center

• Boston, 1959

• by Le Corbusier

• arts building at Harvard

Turun Sanomat

• Finland, 1927

• by Alvar Alto

• had quotations of Le Corbusier like the ribbon window

Paimio Sanitorium

• Finland, 1929

• by Alvar Alto

• place to recover from tuberculosis

Finnish Pavilion

• New York, 1937

• by Alvar Alto

• for a world’s fair

Villa Mairea

• Finland, 1938

• by Alvar Alto

• he had an unlimited budget

Baker House

• dorm at MIT, 1947

• by Alvar Alto

• Alto and Gropius had a series of debates and Alto lost everyone because he was a drunk and couldn’t stay sober for long enough

Helsinki Technological University

• Finland, 1949

• by Alvar Alto

• lab building doubles as an ampitheater

Säynätsalo Town Hall

• Finland, 1949

• by Alvar Alto

• reference to classical Greece as it’s up on an acropolis

Vuoksenniska Church

• Finland, 1956

• by Alvar Alto

• has 39 different window configurations

Yale Art Gallery

• New Haven, 1951

• by Louis Kahn

• steel and glass curtain wall

• Rose and Asher went here in March

Jonas Salk Institute

• San Diego, 1959

• by Louis Kahn

• has an iconic courtyard—looks like a metaphysical void, Hendrix sees it as an abstracted minimalist church

Richards Medical Center

• Philadelphia, 1957

• by Louis Kahn

• brick used for circulation, glass for the research labs

Indian Institute of Management

• Ahmadabad, 1962

• by Louis Kahn

• main building is made of brick to evoke Roman monumentality—India liked having a connection to Rome

National Assembly Hall

• Dhaka, 1962

• by Louis Kahn

• civil war happened during its construction

Kimbell Art Museum

• Fort Worth, 1966

• by Louis Kahn

• laid out like a roman villa

Castelvecchio

• Verona, 1956

• by Carlo Scarpa

• renovated the castle into a modern art museum

Querini Stampalia

• Venice, 1961

• by Carlo Scarpa

• he liked experimenting with steps which is ironic because he died falling down a flight of stairs

Brion Tomb

• Treiso, 1969

• by Carlo Scarpa

• cemetery plot for a wealthy textile family

Casa del Girasole

• Rome, 1947

• by Luigi Moretti

• girasole means “sunflower”—why it faces the sun

Vanna Venturi House

• Chestnut Hill, 1963

• by Robert Venturi

• “Mies says less is more, I say less is a bore.”

La Rinascente

• Rome, 1961

• by Franco Albini

• false steel structure on the exterior

Pompidou Center

• Paris, 1971

• by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano

• performing arts center

Piazza d’Italia

• New Orleans, 1978

• by Charles Moore

• it was made for Italians and they obviously offended them so they ever used it, eventually becoming run down

Modena Cemetery

• Modena, 1971

• by Aldo Rossi

• like most cemetaries in Italy, it’s above ground because of unstable soil

Teatro del Mundo

• Venice, 1979

• by Aldo Rossi

• built on a barge so it just floats around the canals

Barenholtz Pavilion

• Princeton, 1967

• by Peter Eisenman

• commissioned to add an addition to a house

Wexner Center

• Ohio State Campus, 1983

• by Peter Eisenman

• Hendrix presented a paper on this at a convention in March

Gehry House

• Santa Monica, 1977

• by Frank Gehry

• his original name was Goldberg but he changed it because he didn’t think anyone would hire a Jewish architect