Week 9 & 10 Buildings

• Adolf Loos

• Goldman & Salatsch Building or Looshaus

• 1912

• Vienna, Austria

  • Shows Loos’s idea of exterior restraint and interior richness, linking the body to skin, cladding, and anti-ornament. The Patron was also a clothing company for wealthy figures

  • Ugly, no ornament.

• From Week 9: The Body

• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

• The Frankfurt Kitchen

• 1926

• Frankfurt, Germany

  • Shows modern design and its tendency towrads organization and efficiency in everyday domestic life

  • The only kitchen in the course

• From Week 9: The Body

• Le Corbusier

• Villa Savoye

• 1931

• Poissy, France

  • Represents Le Corbusier’s modern architecture and his 5 points of architecture. Architecture is choreographed through movement/architectural promenade.

  • Pilotis and architectural promenade.

• From Week 9: The Body

• Le Corbusier

• Unité d’Habitation

• 1952

• Marseille, France

  • Shows Le Corbusier’s ideas of the measured body and standardized housing at the large-scale of an apartment block.

  • Coloured windows, reponse to Post WWII housing crisis.

• From Week 9: The Body

• Adolf Loos

• Baker House

• 1927

• Paris, France

  • Connects Loos to Josephine Baker, who was the patron of this house. Shows the theme of the body as spectacle, surface, and display, which was built it based off Josephine Baker’s image.

  • Creepy, voyeurist house. Unbuilt.

• From Week 9: The Body

• Adolf Loos

• Villa Müller

• 1930

• Prague, Czech Republic

  • A clear example of Loos’ Raumplan, where Loos designs a home as a set of spaces at varied heights, not simply 2D. Also had a voyeuristic aspect, where people are on display.

• From Week 9: The Body

• Josephine Baker

• La folie du jour (The Madness of the Day)

• 1926

• Folies Bergère, Paris

  • Important as it shows the body as performance, spectacle, and display.

  • Banana skirt!

• From Week 9: The Body

• Josephine Baker

• Princesse Tam-Tam

• 1935

• Princess Tam-Tam (film, not place)

  • Shows how Baker understood her own fetishization, with themes of performance, voyeurism, and “exotic” spectacle

  • She gets very drunk and gets pushed onto stage

  • Civilizing and remaking the “exotic” woman

• From Week 9: The Body

• Aldo Rossi

• Gallaratese Housing

• 1969-1973

• Milan, Italy

  • Shows Rossi’s interest in history, monumentality, and memory by treating housing as part of the city’s historical form.

  • Pilotis, and amphitheatre.

• From Week 10: The City

• Aldo Rossi

• The “Analogous City” Collage

• 1976

  • Shows Rossi’s idea of how the city is shaped by memory and imagination by combining real and invented pieces in a collage and imagining urban life differently.

• From Week 10: The City

• Canaletto

• “Capriccio with Palladian Buildings”

• 1756-1759

  • Rossi’s inspiration for the term Capriccio, where he explains how a city can understood through collage, imagination, and precedent.

  • Depicts a fantasy Venetian landscape.

• From Week 10: The City

• Aldo Rossi

• San Cataldo Cemetery

• 1971-1984

• Modena, Italy

  • Shows how Rossi treats architecture as a timeless artifact connected to the cities memory and death.

  • Pyramid looking plan that’s lacking the pyramid IRL?

• From Week 10: The City

• Aldo Rossi

• Teatro del Mondo at the First Venice Architectural Biennale

• 1980

• Venice, Italy

  • Turns architecture into a temporary and memorable object? I lowkey dont even know. Something about Rossi’s interest in history and collective meaning.

  • Highkey looks like a sand castle…

• From Week 10: The City

• Starrett & van Vleck

• Downtown Athletic Club

• 1929-1931

• New York City, USA

  • A precedent for Koolhaas’ social condenser, when a skyscraper becomes a machine for congestion, stacked programs, and urban interaction

  • The most NYC looking building you’ve ever seen… as a gym 😭

• From Week 10: The City

• Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)

• Competition for Parc de la Villette: Congestion without Matter

• 1982

• Paris

  • Shows Koolhaas’s idea that architecture/urbanism can be organized through program and diagram instead of solid forms.

  • Orthographic surrealism, collage plan, and a set of ARC200-esque drawings

• From Week 10: The City

• Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)

• Seattle Public Library

• 2004

• Seattle, USA

  • An example Koolhaas’s idea of bigness, where a large building becomes a hub for many different activities through scale, stacking, and circulation

  • The one library they never shut up about

• From Week 10: The City

• Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)

• China Central Television (CCTV)

• 2002-2012

• Beijing, China

  • Reflects Koolhaas’ idea of bigness, using a large scale and unusual form to question how architecture handles program.

  • They call is the underwear.

• From Week 10: The City

• Charles Correa

• Sabarmati Ashram

• 1958-1963

• Ahmedabad, India

  • Shows Correa’s interest in everday life, climate-responsive design, and human architecture. Tropical modernism vs modernist forms

  • Looks kinda like Geoffrey Bawa

• From Week 10: The City

• Charles Correa

• Kanchanjunga Apartments

• 1970-1983

• Mumbai, India

  • Shows Correa’s take on high-rise housing, responding to climate and urban density in Mumbai

  • This boy compained about the city being a terrible place then made unaffordable lego block building

• From Week 10: The City

• Charles Correa

• Navi Mumbai

• proposed, 1970s-

  • Reflects Correa’s view of the city as a system that responds to growth, expansion, and inequality

  • ArcGIS before ArcGIS

• From Week 10: The City

• Charles Correa

• Incremental Housing at Belapur

• 1983-1986

• Navi Mumbai, India

  • Shows Correa’s belief in incremental growth, where housing and cities expand over time instead of following one master plan.

• From Week 10: The City