Appreciation of Architecture.

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3 Developments for the Chicago Architecture

1) Balloon Frame Construction 2) Fire of 1871 3) Emergence of Chicago School

Le Corbusier's Five Points

1) Pilotis--Raised on stilts 2)Open Facade 3) Ribbon Windows 4) Open Plan 5) Flat Roof

Three principals of organic architecture

1. Unity. 2. Continuity. 3. Dynamism.

Art Nouveau

A decorative style of art, popular in Europe and America from the 1880s to the 1930s. This style is usually characterized by flowing lines, flat shapes, and vines and flowers.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Apprenticed with Louis Sullivan

Opposed mass production of Industrial Style.

Art Nouveau

Sullivan

Auditorium Building Carson Building Guaranty Building

Walter Gropius

Bauhaus Campus

Unit for Urban Living

Bottom has stilts

Not one straight line

Casa Milá

Antoni Gaudi

Casa Milá Sagrada Familia

New Urbanism

Compact walk-able mixed use neighborhoods

The vertical city in the midst of nature" or "tower in the park."

Corbu's Image for future cities

Joseph Paxton

Crystal Place

An architecture of imperfection, contradiction, & edginess.

Deconstructivist Architecture

Buildings that "look like they might fall down."

Deconstructivist Architecture

Approaches architecture as sculpture.

Frank Gehry

Founder of the Prairie School

Frank Lloyd Wright

Replaced the Twin Towers

Freedom Tower

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

German Pavilion Seagram Building

"It should be every inch a proud and soaring thing."

Guaranty Building

Only Wright building in NY City.

Guggenheim Museum

Pairie School type of building

House

Austere Glass Box

International Style

Sleek, boxlike, minimal, abstract, technological, without ornament

International Style

Why did the north tower stand longer

It was struck much higher, and slower.

Founders of the Chicago School

Jenney and Sullivan

Designed to support a sense of corporate "togetherness."

Johnson Wax Building

"An image of modern man, caught up in constant change & flow, holding on, if he feels he must, to whatever seems solid, but no longer regarding himself as the center of the world."

Kaufmann House

Believed architecture should help create a better society.

Le Corbusier

William Whyte's Three Factors

Location, Street-plaza location, sittability

First Modern Architect

Louis Sullivan

H.H. Richardson

Marshall Field House

Designed the Twin Towers

Minoru Yamasaki

Johnson Wax Building

Mushroom columns

3 Principals of International style

New principal of structure, space, and fucntion

Which Tower was struck first and which tower fell first?

North Struck First and South Tower fell First

Which Tower had more deaths

North-1400

Where were the north and south tower struck

North.......93-98 South......78-84

Chicago's Site and Situation

Poor Site; Excellent Situation

A reaction against the universal style of modernist architecture.

Postmodern Architecture

"Said to express the great open spaces of the midwest"

Prairie School

Frank Lloyd Wright

Robbie House Taliesin Kaufman House Johnson Wax Building Guggenheim Building

Gerrit Rietveld

Schroeder House

The first modern building.

Schroeder House

Jenney

Second Leiter Building

Internal metal skeleton holds up building instead of walls

Skeletal Frame Construction

Chicago School type of building

Skyscraper

Form follows function

Sullivan

Uniquely American Architecture

Sullivan

Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye Chapel at Ronchamp Unit for Urban Living

Post Modern Themes

• Historical awareness. • Decoration & ornament. • Visual variety. • Playful borrowing from past traditions. • Expressing a sense of place & region.


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