Arc 308 - Exam 1

built to last, very showy, built in affluent area

Bishop’s Palace, Nicholas John Clayton

spaces flow into each other, ephemeral

Foam House, Charles Harker

The Parthenon

centralized power in the church

St. Peter’s Basilica, Bramante/Sangallo/Michelangelo/Della Porta/Maderno/Bernini

social center with bright colors

exterior: heavy Mexican influence

Library in San Antonio, Ricardo Legorreta

every building strategically placed

human height windows

round barn design

Farm in Gut Garkau, Hugo Haring

minimal and exquisite, lets life grow around it

Barcelona Pavilion, Mies Van der Rohe

all steel frame, brick, and glass

Illinois Tech Campus, Mies Van der Rohe

simple steel frame, high ceilings, in nature

Farnsworth House, Mies Van der Rohe

150 lights around parade, giving powerful

Cathedral of Light, Albert Speer

stadium inspired by classic architecture, designed with granite to ensure beautiful ruins

Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Albert Speer

HQ, communication of who “leader” is

New State Chancellery, Albert Speer

powerful communication, redo of Berlin

Plans for Berlin, Albert Speer

very balanced, one roman tower and one more delicate, every surface decorated, high stained glass windows

Chartes Cathedral

symmetrical, ornate textures, blue/green/gold = classic colors, giant scale, plants everywhere

Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte, Le Vau/ Le Notre/Le Brun

perfect proportions, symmetrical, bulbous shape, takes on color of light, hand carved marble

Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan

symmetrical, intense color

Temple of Heaven, Ming Dynasty

spiritual+emotional, dif shape on every side, jazz/staccato rhythm, rough texture

Ronchamp Chapel, Le Corbusier

no symmetry, ceramic tiles, boat like rhythm

Sydney Opera House, Jorn Utzon

ORDER: humans in control, atop hill, aligned with cardinal directions

Villa Rotunda, Palladio

ORDER: social→semi-social→private, mostly squares, lots of symmetry (subconsciously makes you more orderly)

Bryn Mawr Dorm, Louis I Kahn

COMPLEXITY: chamfered corners with fountains (one per season), strong facade on prominent street, tower on piazza, complex

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Borromini

COMPLEXITY: angsty, unresolved, points to civics center, interior is thought provoking and disorienting

Denver Museum of Art, Daniel Libeskind

TECHNIQUE: “Either make buildings out of walls and use arches or use columns and beams”, shows physics discoveries

S. Andrea, Alberti

TECHNIQUE: communicate future, more open because of stronger structure

Schroder House, Gerritt Rietveld

TECHNIQUE: all physics, steel trusses and intersection of pieces, acknowledgement of building systems

Centre Pompidou, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers

THE GRID: based on little work pods, make communities with people, tartan grid

Central Beheer Offices, Herman Hertzberger

TUBES: underlying structure of tubes connected to garden

Sarabhai Residence, Le Corbusier

TUBES: vaults, each a room for art, museum where you feel connected to paintings

Kimbell Art Museum, Louis I Kahn

TUBES: long, thin tubes, wide→thin, good for light

Modern Art Museum, Tadao Ando

square base, height:base → 5:8, very mathematical design

Pyramids of Giza

PRESTIGE: make point of importance, public access to books, circle inside of square

Stockholm Library, Gunnar Asplund

Rivery, flow like water, fluid character

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry

MAKES SENSE: geodesic, made from tetrahedrons

US Pavilion at Expo, Buckminster Fuller

INTELLECTUAL PUZZLES: people can live anywhere, might as well make it like a puzzle

Houses, Peter Eisenmen

ICONIC: cube, every face has squares focusing eye on building interior

Zollverein School of Design, Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA)

ICONIC: based on Mandela, collection of geometric forms

Capitol Buildings of Dacca, Louis I Kahn

void as form, depends on the soft stone, physiognomy: what shape benefits body? (sleeping niches)

Rock Cut Houses

steep roofs broken into parts to slow rain, human body influence (curved nails of dancers), sacred place→shaped like anthill

Wat Aron and Royal Palace

natural form of movement of people, pull in cool breeze from sea using courtyards, walls look like eroded rocks on coastline and seaweed looks like railing

Casa Mila, Antoni Gaudi

looks like city and hills, terrace wavy like ocean

Parc Guell, Antoni Gaudi

big granite rocks coming from ground (base of building), tall+vertical trees and verticals made from wood with copper canopy at top of building (wears green), when inside, feels outside

Dipoli Student Union, Reima and Raili Pietila

shaped like flying because planes were relatively new

TWA Terminal, Eero Saarinen

raised building to continue to allow people to pass through

Phaeno Science Center, Zaha Hadid

vegetation surrounds building, more through building

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Frank Gehry

mostly rectilinear offices but music hall is very fluid

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry

PRESTIGE: used to introduce modern art to america

Guggenheim NYC, Frank Lloyd Wright