Architecture Exam III

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Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Project: 860-880 Lakeshore Drive (Apartment Buildings) Location: Chicago, Illinois Date: 1948-51

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Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Project: Farnsworth House Location: Plano, Illinois Date: 1945-51

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Architect: Mies van der Rohe Project: New National Gallery Location: West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany Date: 1962-68

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Architect: Oscar Niemeyer Project: Niemeyer House Location: Canoas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: 1953-54

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Architect: Oscar Niemeyer Project: Copan Building Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Date: 1951-53

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Architect: Pouillon Project: Climat de France Housing Location: Algiers, Algeria Date: 1953-57

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Architect: Price, w/ Littlewood Project: The Fun Palace Location: London, England Date: 1961-70 (unbuilt)

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Architect: R. Buckminster Fuller Project: Dymaxion Dwelling Machine Location: Wichita, Kansas Date: 1944-46

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Architect: Reidy Project: Prefeito Mendes Moraes Building Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: 1946-52

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Architect: Rem Koolhaas & Joshua Prince-Ramus (OMA) Project: Seattle Public Library Location: Searle, Washington Date: 2004

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Architect: Richard Neutra Project: Channel Heights Location: San Pedro, California Date: 1941-43 (*no longer exists)

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Architect: Superstudio Project: The Continuous Monument Location: everywhere Date: 1969 (unbuilt)

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Architects: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe w/ Philip Johnson Project: Seagram Building Location: New York, New York Date: 1954-58

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Architects: Aalto, Gropius, Niemeyer, Jacobsen, Bakema, etc. Project: Hansaviertel Location: West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany Date: 1957

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Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Project: Bubble (Hirshhorn Museum) Location: Washington D.C., 2013 (unbuilt) (original Museum designed by Gordon Bunshap 1969-74)

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Architects: Oscar Niemeyer (architect) and Lucio Costa (planner) Project: Brasilia Location: Brasilia, Brazil Date: 1956-60

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Architects: Wachsmann & Gropius Project: The Packaged House System Date: 1941-46

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Burbank's Lockheed Air Terminal concealed by cloth in 1942 **Look at slides

Burbank's Lockheed Air Terminal concealed by cloth in 1942 **Look at slides

Directional Piers aswell

Instead of Pilotis, now

religious buildings

LCB started building

Bare/texture concrete

LCB's New Ideas: Beton Brut

Sun breaker

LCB's New Ideas: Brise soleil

natural air exchange

LCB's New Ideas: aérateurs

proportioning system

LCB's New Ideas: le modulor

undulatory glass surface

LCB's New Ideas: ondulatories

protection from elements

LCB's New Ideas: parasol roof

événements plastiques (sculptural events)

Organized buildings as a sequence of

Architect: Le Corbusier Project: Plan for Rio Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: 1929

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Architect: Le Corbusier Project: Unité d'Habitation Location: Marseilles, France Date: 1946-52

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Architect: Louis Kahn Project: Salk Institute for Biological Studies Location: La Jolla, California Date: 1959-65

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Le Corbusier in The Athens Charter

"To introduce the sun is the new and most imperative duty of the architect."

Architect: Le Corbusier Project: Sainte Marie de la Tourette Convent (Monastery of La Tourette) Location: Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle, near Lyons, France Date: 1953-60

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Architect/Engineer: Buckminster Fuller Project: Dome over Manhattan Location: New York, New York Date: 1960 (unbuilt)

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Architect: ATBAT-Afrique (George Candilis & Shadrach Woods with Vladimir Bodiansky) Project: Housing for Muslim Workers Location: Casablanca, Morocco Date: 1952

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Architect: Albert Kahn Project: Chrysler Tank Arsenal Location: Warren Township, Michigan Date: 1941

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Architect: Archigram Project: Instant City Location: n/a Date: 1968-70 (unbuilt)

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Architect: Chareau & Bijvoet Project: Maison de Verre (Glass House) Location: Paris, France Date: 1927-31

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Architect: Constant Nieuwenhuis Project: New Babylon Location: n/a Date: 1957-74 (unbuilt)

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Architect: Costa Project: Apartment Buildings, Park Guinie Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Date: 1948-54

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Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright Project: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Location: New York, New York Date: 1943-59

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Architect: Gordon Bunshap (SOM) Project: Lever House Location: New York, New York Date: 1950-52

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Architect: Kenzo Tange Project: Hiroshima Peace Center Location: Hiroshima, Japan Date: 1949-56

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Architect: Le Corbusier Project: Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut Location: Ronchamp, France Date: 1951-55

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Architect: Le Corbusier Project: Maisons Jaoul Location: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Date: 1951-55

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Film Maker: Jacques Tati Film: Playtime Date: 1967

Film Maker: Film: Date:

Francois Dallegret, The Environment-Bubble: Transparent Plastic Bubble Dome Inflated by Air-Conditioning Output, in Reyner Banham, "A Home is Not a House," 1965. *look at slides

Francois Dallegret, The Environment-Bubble: Transparent Plastic Bubble Dome Inflated by Air-Conditioning Output, in Reyner Banham, "A Home is Not a House," 1965. *look at slides

Project: Festival of Britain Location: London, United Kingdom Date: 1951

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A: Yes, according to Charles Jencks.... everything built before 1972 was Modern Architecture, everything aNer was Postmodern Architecture. Minoru Yamasaki, PruiJ Igoe, St. Louis, Missouri, (1950-54; demolished 1972)

Q: The Death of Modern Architecture?

The Camouflage Exhibition at Chicago's School of Design in 1943 **Look at slides

The Camouflage Exhibition at Chicago's School of Design in 1943 **Look at slides

Oscar Niemeyer

Who said the following quote? "It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What a/racts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman."

private cosmology with sun and moon, male and female, the machine and the Mediterranean myth

in paintings, sculptures and architecture he explored metaphors:

brises-soleil, ondulatories

instead of plate glass or strip windows, now

robust walls

instead of thin planes of stucco, now

human movement

still elaborating on the idea of free plan, but with a more tactile sense of


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