Appreciation of Architecture.
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.
