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Карточки Architecture 2 Quizlet
Карточки Architecture 2 Quizlet
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-Bishop's Palace
-St. Peter's Cathedral
Architecture & Society -Foam House
-The Parthenons
-->Architecture is a means of expression. Details portray message.
Nicholas Clayton
-->about family
Bishop's Palace
• decor from all over the world
Charles Harker
-->1960's, hippies, rebellious
Foam House
no architect
-->represents culture
The Parthenons
• curved bc curved retina
**math
-Farm
-Barcelona Pavillion
Architectural Values
-New State Chancellery
-->Values are based on architect's life.
Farm
• Values:
Hugo Haering -beauty is unique
-architecture should express functionality
-->buildings shaped depending on movement
Barcelona Pavillion
• Values:
-beauty is rational --> similar buildings
Mies Van der Rohe
-architecture should represent spirit of its age
*invented steel & glass architecture
-->confusing architecture; led movement
-balance
-proportion
-symmetry
-light
-space
-shape
12 Elements of Form
-line
-color
-material
-scale
-rhythm
-texture
no architect
-->expressing religious devotion
• no symmetry
Cathedral
• heartbeat rhythm
• contrasting light
• stained glass
Le Vau
• symmetry (plants)
Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte
• texture (interior)
• scale (bedroom)
Shah Jahan
-->as a result of favorite wife's death
Taj Mahal • bilateral symmetry
• color (white marble)
• scale (human proportion)
Le Corbusier
-->angel had appeared to little girl
• shape shifter
Chapel
• plaster texture
• light & color combined
• soothing rhythm
Jorn Utzon
• dynamic balance
Opera House
• vantage point
-Villa Rotunda
-Dormitory at Bryn Mawr College
-San Carlo alla Quattro Fontana
-S. Andrea
Architecture as an Intellectual/ Artistic Experience
-Schroeder House
-Centre Pompideau
-->Art in math & order. Beauty in lack of order, expression of technology, and connections w'
nature.
Palladio
• serves as compass
Villa Rotunda
**order and math
Louis Kahn
• from public to private
Dormitory of Bryn Mawr College
**order and math
-->demonstrating women power [Antine]
Architecture
Borromini
• 4 fountains = 4 seasons
San Carlo alla Quattro Fontana
• dome in center w light
• different on each side [no order]
Alberti
--> speaks technology [columns & beams]
S. Andrea
Gerrit Reitveld
• connected to nature [open & airy]
Schroeder House
Edwin Waller
• wanted a grid
Austin City Plan
• wanted capitol in center
James Oglethorpe
• garden in center-->expressing organization
Savannah City Plan
Herman Hertzberg
• like a small city
Central Beheer Offices
**grids
Le Corbusier
**parallelism
Sarabhai Residence
• easy movement inside/outside
Louis Kahn
-->expresses system/functionality
Kimball Art Museum
**vaults & light
Tadeo Ando
• structural and mechanical system
Modern Art Museum
-Pyramids
-Designs for Chaux
-Stockholm Library
-Guggenheim Museum
-U.S Pavillion at Expo
Numbers/Mathematics/Geometry as Inspiration of Form
-Houses
-Zollverein School of Design
-Capitol Building
-->Geometry can either be functional or not. Systems are expressed through geometry. There's
mysticism in math.
Architecture
• equilateral
• precise measurements
Pyramids (Egypt)
• stone from across Nile River
**mysticism & immortality
Claude Ledoux
• utopian city
Design for Chaux
• full of salt [perfect cubes]
• rich would be located in center; poor outside
Gunnar Asplund
-->symbolic of culture
Stockholm Library
• libraries were not common before
• enter into center
Buckminister Fuller
• greatest space w least amount of materials
U.S Pavillion at Expo
• photosensitive cells
• dome
Peter Eisenman
• mathematical puzzle
Houses
• not functional
Kazuyo Sejima
• strong geometry [squares]
Zollverein School of Design
Louis Kahn
• has a mosque
Capitol Building
**geometry
no architect
• shape in response to rain --> shaped like umbrella
Wat Arun and Royal Palace
Antonio Gaudi
-->expressing connection w' nature
Casa Mila • air chimney
-->mountain as oath to Montserrat
• organic
Reima Pietila
• windows parallel with trees
Dipoli Student Union
• big rocks
Zana Hadid
• lifted off ground -->passage under
Phaneo Science Center
• focused on movement of kids
Architecture
Eero Saarinen
-->expressing first time flying across Atlantic
TWA Terminal
• form guides movement
Frank Gehry
• shaped like ship bc fascination w fish
Guggenheim Museum
Steven Holl
Изображение:
• small but had to be memorable
St. Ignatius
• shape
Chapel
• space
St. Ignatius Chapel
• light & color [yellow glow]
• geometric
• organic
**7 bottles of light
Kazuyo Sejima
• very public --> addressing all surroundings
Museum of Contemporary Art of the XXI Century • white rooms
• soft light
• golden rectangles
Daniel Libeskind
-->personal connection w holocaust
• doesn't fit it; disoriented ; uncomfortable
Jewish Museum
• aggressive compared to adjacent building
• 7 by 7 piers --> religion
• strong emotional feeling [vulnerability]
-Monte Alban
-Acoma
-Mont St. Michael
-Falling Water
Buildings and Land
-Condominiums
-Taliesin West
-->Build according to environment. Use landscapes efficiently. Try to replicate environment.
Beware of consumption.
1) Energy Consumption
2) Land Consumption
Physical Considerations 3) Resource Consumption
4) Waste Disposal
5) Toxicity
no architect
• lined by mountains
Monte Alban
• replicating mountains
no architect
• local materials [Adobe in response to climate]
Acoma
• replicates environment
-->Native American sophistication
no architect
• use of rock
Mont St. Michel
• comes from landscape
Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
• physical consideration
Falling Water • extension of landscape
• local materials [sedimentary rock]
• ledges characterize
Moore/Lyndon/Turnbull/Whitaker
• red wood bc red forest
Condominiums
• orientations lets trees act as windbreakers
-The Woodlands
-Sea Ranch
Geography/Topography/Ecology -Hill Towns
-->Consider trees, land, climate and how to respect it. Use topography accordingly to
construction.
1) Transportation
2) Infrastructure
Concerns during Planing 3) Land Use
4) Economic
5) Environmental
Ian McHarg
• prone to heavy rain --> minimize impervious cover
The Woodlands
• build on higher land; lower land for ponds
• no storm sewers
Lawrence Halprin
• built against wind
Sea Ranch
• open space from cluster
-->doesn't feel developed; preserved beauty
• on top of hill
• very dense; conserves land
Hill Towns
-Pont du Guard
-Colloseum
-The Pantheon
-Hagia Sophia
-Ames Gate Lodge
Structure & Materials -Maisons Jaoul
-Morse & Stiles Hall
-Lake Shore Drive Apartments
-John Deere Headquarters
-->Demonstrating physics behind construction adds beauty and character. Helps portray
physical consideration.
• compression
• tension
Types of Structure
• bonding
• sheer
no architect
• engineering challenge
Pont du Guard • no concern for beauty just engineering
• stone for compression
• perfect circles
Architecture
no architect
• arches for loads
Colloseum
• heavy/thick on bottom
• light on top
H.H Richardson
• building in stone
Ames Gates Lodge • visible compression
-->expressing what an arch is
-->expressing physical considerations
no architect
Изображение:
• huge dome
The Pantheon The Pantheon
• stone and compression
no architect
-->trying to move capitol to this huge church
Hagia Sophia
• stone carrying loads
**compression
Le Corbusier
• brick and concrete
Maisons Jaoul
• explains physics
Eero Saarinen
• gothic but w' physical concerns
Morse and Stiles Hall
Eero Saarinen
• steel [beams]
John Deere Headquarters
• open space bc "farming"
-Cathedral
-S. Maria della Fiore
Construction & Tectonics -Sydney Opera House
-->Must take surroundings and weather into consideration [moisture]. Make sure a building is
stable by inspecting walls, windows, etc.
1) site work
2) foundation
3) erect structural system
Steps in Conventional Construction Process 4) produce skin
5) aline rooms and bathrooms
6) put in systems
7) put finishes
no architect
• heavy on bottom; light on top
Cathedral
• constructed on ground then erected
• spiral staircase actually used during construction
Jorn Utzon
• necessary inventions to construct -->challenge
Sydney Opera House
• held competition
• hired best engineer to carry out winner's idea
Architecture
-Cameron Offices
-Tenneco Building
-Secretariat Building
Architecture in Response to Climate -Palace of Justice
-Assembly Building
-->Importance of shading, beauty in orientation, and connection with nature through massing,
fenestration, and solar shading.
1) orientation
2) solar shade
Main Concerns for Building in Response to Climate 3) thermal storing
4) insulation
5) air circulation
John Andrews
• long faces North/South; short East/West
Cameron Offices
• horizontal shading in south
• microclimate in courtyard
S.O.M
• steel frame
Tenneco Building
• windows 6 tf deep
Le Corbusier
• aligned to mountains
Secretariat Building
• 45 degrees
• windows on long side
Le Corbusier
• inspired by parasoles
Palace of Justice
• space for movement
Le Corbusier
• huge thing on top traps sun
Assembly Building
• scientifically calculated
-Marika-Alderton House
-Palazzo
Designation & Organization -Stoughton House
-->Rooms are separated due to values, practicality, and ownership. Human factors have been a
concern since nomadic culture.
Glenn Murcutt
• one large communal living room
Marika-Alderton House
• ways of socializing integrated into architecture
no architect
• rooms upstairs graciously
Palazzo
• from public on bottom to private on top
H.H. Richardson
• expresses affluent family
Stoughton House
• servers never seen
• taboos
1) practicality
2) values
Why Rooms are Separated
3) ownership
also... accommodation of machines & efficiency
Architecture
- Baker House Dormitory
- La Tourette
Architectural Determinism
-->Distance, environment, and space affects relationships. Uses are unique and convey
messages.
• physical
Types of Distances
• functional
• conforming
Types of Uses • implied
• accommodate
Alvar Aalto
• easy environment
• river for view when studying
Baker House Dormitory
• challenged by long thin site and # of rooms
• students divided and placed strategically for
interactions
Le Corbusier
• isolation [you & God]
La Tourette • silence
• no view, just light [symbolistic of God]
• lifted --> no connections
Everyone matters.
Humanism Emphasizes self-realization.
Achieved logically.