Architecture Lecture

Transit Oriented Development (TOD)

-Is the idea that development tends to occur in transit -cities locate themselves to transit mods -Suburbs, transit wealthier people. -it is in the best interest of those who wish to live outside the city to promote urban density, through policy and practice, as a way to preserve open land and the opportunity to live in a less dense environment.

Manadnock

Building in Chicago -Supported by the exterior walls (16 stories)

Peter Eisenmen

-Born in Nework, New Jersey -eisenmens work reflects on polateo -space, shape, geometric

Architecture in the 19th Century

-Cheap way to make steel -Skyscrapers (tents)

henry hobson richardson

-He was recognized for building libraries. -born in Louisiana -College: Harvard -Wealthy -Went to school of Fine Arts in Paris -traveled europe came back to practice -Trinity Church (boston) -arches (idea from room), heavy stone work -Thomas Cane library in Massachusetts -died at 47 -owl dedicated to students (arch libraries) -he got commission from the city he built his church in

Caves

-Natural or human produced -self supported

Why Architecture?

-Provides an important understanding of our world and how it works. -It lies at the heart of many matters of our world and how it works. -It provides insight into other arts and disciplines. -We are curious beings eager to understand ourselves and our environment. -We search for explanation and principles that help us solve problems and improve life on our planet .

Tent

-Structural support and fabric -The support gives the fabric structural integrity -the tent is held up by a frame -niether of them are complete without one another

Erik Gunnar Asplund

-Swedish (1885-1940) -drew childlike drawings -stockholm library (most recognized)

Building/Zoning codes

-prior to 1916 there weren't any zoning codes

Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos used a system of spatial organization in his houses: RAUMPLAN Loos' manifesto about architecture was titled Ornamented and Crime.

House (singular) vs Housing (collective)

Culture: -global tradition -house culture reflects on the culture of the place -local tradition Ritual significance -dueling, living space -kitchen, cooking, lounging Farnsworth House (rectangle long house doctor) no scale you can't tell how big it is. Biltmore- in north Carolina largest house in the US

Vitruvian Triad

Firmitas- Strength Utilitas- Utility (useful, function) Venustas- Beauty

Cities

Palmanova is a town and comune in northeastern Italy. The town is an excellent example of star fort of the Late Renaissance, built up by the Venetians in 1593. (Medieval times) Space of the street is the primary architecture of a city.

Pantheon

Rome Made by Marcus Agrippa Collection of gods- a temple to all the Gods. Round from, temple front, dome roof. Built out of concrete 12,000 years ago. Interior -Was a catholic church -squares in dome called coffers -Oculus (eye in latin)- the pantheon's opening at the top that illuminates the entire building

Ionic Columns

ancient Greece columns

le corbusier

architecture church saint pierre

Section

building volume cut vertically through a building you are able to see a section

Section

slice a cake the layers (cut away)

piano nobile

the level of the nobility, one start up from the ground.

The Primitive Hut (Fables of Origin)

the origin of architecture (shelter) Marc-Antoine Laugier The Primitive Hut has become a shorthand statement of principle to define architecture. Marc-Antoine Laugier (1713-1769), a French Jesuit priest, outlined his theory about architecture in the 1753 Essai sur l'architecture. According to Laugier, all architecture derives from these three essential, primitive elements: The column The entablature The pediment

pruitt igoe (public housing) 1952-1972 designed by minor yamasaki

urban housing unit in Saint Louis 33 building for the poor uneducated and rural residents. nickname: slumbs