Design midterm

Upes lecture on the midterm

George Nelson

How to see (to see is to think)

Architecture

The art or science of building specifically the art or practice of designing and building structure especially habitable ones

Andrea Palladio

Four books on architecture

Villa Rotunda/Capra near Vicenza Italy

Most influential architect

Le Corbusier’s five points

The Pilotis columns

The free plan

The free facade

The long horizontal sliding window

The Roof Garden

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

Fashion passes style remains

Le Corbusier

Villa Savoy (1928)

Top 5 Architects of the 20th century

Frank Lloyd Wright

Le Corbusier

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Walter Gropius

Alvar Aalto

Le corbusier (1887-1965)

Five points of architecture

Wiltod Rybczynski 1943

Architecture is hard to define

Vitruvius

First architectural theoretician

10 books of architecture

Vitruvius elements of architecture

Commodity, Firmness and delight( hardest to accomplish)

Robin Evans

Architects don’t make buildings they make drawings of buildings

Albrecht Durer, German 1471-1528

German renaissance artist

Barcelona Pavilion

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Leon Battista Alberti 1404-1472

One-point perspective

On the art of building (10 books)

Minow Yamasaki 1912-1986

World trade center

Daniel Libeskind

Winning scheme for Ground 0 Manhattan NY February 2003

Joseph Paxton (1851)

The crystal palace

Monticello residence of Thomas Jefferson 1772

Walter Gropius 1883-1969

Bauhaus(influential design school)

Female professors

Anni Albers (1899-1994)

Marianne Brandt (1893-1983)

Les demoiselles d’Avignon 1907

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Spain-country of birth

Self-portrait at 15,1896

Robert Venturi

Less is a bore

Complexity and contradiction in architecture

Vanna Venturi House Chesnutt Hill PA 1962-64

Post Modernist

Alvar Aalto (1898-1976)

Youngest in the top 5 influential architects

Aldo Rossi 1931-1997