global architecture

the architect (if known), (2) the building’s title, (3) the building’s location, and (4) the date of construction within 5 years. The remaining time will be devoted to contextualizing the building within its historical, cultural, and/or theoretical framework.

Muller and Muller

Millennium Park Bicycle Shed

Chicago, Illinois

2004
Not quite the typical building but it is still architecture. Modern era architecture.

Ictinus and Callicrates
Parthenon
Ancient Greece
5th century BCE
A temple dedicated to the goddess Athena.

Materials: Built almost entirely from Pentelic marble, quarried near Athens.

Emperor Hadrian
Pantheon
Ancient Rome
ca. 600 CE
Excellent preservation thought to be because it was converted to a church

Vincenzo Scamozzi

Villa Rocca Pisani
Northern Italy
1576
Palladian style, Neoclassism, Renaissance classical interpretation

Palladio,
Villa Capra “La Rotunda,”
Vicenza, Italy,
1566-1590

Neoclassismm: raised base + portico + central opening
Palladio was an Italaian architect, published Four Books of Architecure, interested in work of Vitruvius (who focused on strength, utlitity, and beauty),

Richard Boyle,
Chiswick House,
Chiswick, London, England,
1729
Palladian architecture: raised base, portico and central opening

Thomas Jefferson,
Monticello,
Charlottesville, VA,
1772
Neoclassicism making its way to America. doric columns, entablature (upper portion of building above the columns), pediment (low pitches triangular wall or gable) , portico, balustrade (railing system), which are all elements of neoclassicism

Alexandre Vallaury, Istanbul Archeology Museums, Istanbul,

Turkey, 1891-1907

Neoclassicism

Ralph Harrington Doane and Antonio Toledo, Old Legislative

Building, 1918 (rebuilt in 1945), Manila, Philippines

neoclassicism

Chartres Cathedral,

Chartres, France, 12th century

Gothic! Purpose of gothic: To create a heavenly atmosphere on Earth, symbolizing closeness to God.

pointed arches

steeply pitched roofs

flying buttresses

stained glass

ribbed vault

towers

William Henry Barlow

St Pancras Station

London, England,

1868

AWN Pugin wrote True Principles of Pointed or Chistian Architecture in 1841, gothic described as the only correct expression of faith, wants, and climate of England. He was a big leader in Gothic Revial movment in 19th century.

Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin,
The Houses of Parliament,

Westminster, London,
1836-1868

Gothic Revival
Home of big ben

Major W. M. Forbes, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Calcutta, India, 1847

Gothic Revial made its way to India

Gaudí, Casa Mila, Barcelona,

Spain, ca. 1906

wrought iron

post industrial revolution
Art Nouveau?

Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, England, 1851

burned down from fire (turns out iron isnt fire proof) post industrial revolution building

Philip Webb and William Morris, Red House, Bexleyheath, England, 1859

Arts and Crafts Movement!! Morris was deeply inspired by John Ruskin, who critiqued industrialization and advocated for craftsmanship. Started Morris and Co.

Everything designed by scratch. Enjoyment in labor. This house stood for the fight against material and moral corruption. Expressed through gothic architecture.

Col. S. Swinton Jacobs, Albert Hall, Jaipur, India, 1876-85

Britain was sourcing cotton through wester India. Bombay established. Swinton Jacobs attempted translation of arts and crafts into India. Albert Hall was designed based off of his “Jeypore Portfolio of architectural details”. merging gothic and indian architecture.

Center stone dome, four smaller domes, and ornamental stone work derived from indian architecture (can see influence of taj majal)

The Vishvanatha Temple, Khajuraho,Madhya Pradesh, India, 12th century CE

Swinton Jacobs beleived he should train craftsman to copy Indian architecture to appreciate intrisict quality of their own culture.

Example of HINDU architecture. left out of Swintons Jeypore Portolio of architectural details