Neoclassis

Neoclassical Characteristics
Full height entry porch (portico)
with pediment and columns
Lunette window in portico
pediment
Symmetrically aligned windows
and door (5 bay front facade
most common)
Side gabled or low pitched
hipped roof
Large windows and doors
Front gabled roof
Front porch with columns
Front facade corner pilasters
Broad cornice
Attic or frieze level windows

Palladian Architecture

Palladian
architectureis
a
european
style
ofarchitecturederived from and
inspired by the designs of
thevenetianarchitectandrea
palladioThat
which
is
recognised
as
palladian
architecture
today
is
an
evolution of palladio's original
concepts. Palladio's work was
strongly
based
on
the
symmetry,
perspective
and
values of the formal classical
temple
architecture
of
theancient greeksandromans.
From the 17th century palladio's
interpretation of this classical
architecture was adapted as the
style known as palladianism. It
continued to develop until the
end of the 18th century

VILLA ROTUNDA

The design is for a completely

symmetrical building having a
square plan with four facades, each
of which has a projectingportico.
The whole is contained within an
imaginary circle which touches
each corner of the building and
centres
of
the
porticos.
(illustration, left). The nameLa
Rotondarefers to the central
circular hall with itsdome

Altes Museum

The
altes
museum(germanf
orold museum) is a
museum
building
onmuseum
islandinberlin,ger
many.
The
museum
building
was built between
1823 and 1830 by
the
architectkarl
friedrich schinkelin
theneoclassicalsty
le
to
house
theprussianroyal
family's
art
collection.

F.L. WRIGHT
Mother art is
architecture

Name
Frank Lincoln Wright
Nationality
American
Birth date
June 8, 1867)
Birth place
Richland Center, Wisconsin
Date of death
April 9, 1959 (aged91)
Place of death
Phoenix, Arizona
Significant buildings
Robie House
Fallingwater
Johnson Wax Building
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum
Significant projects
Florida Southern College

Organic architecture is a philosophy of

architecture which promotes harmony
between human habitation and the
natural
world
through
design
approaches so sympathetic and well
integrated with its site that buildings,
furnishings, and surroundings become
part
of
a
unified,
interrelated
composition.
be inspired by nature and be
sustainable, healthy, conserving, and
diverse.
unfold, like an organism, from the seed
within.
exist in the "continuous present" and
"begin again and again".
follow the flows and be flexible and
adaptable.
"grow out of the site" and be unique.

Organic
Architecture

THE
KAUFFMA
N HOUSE

One of Wright's most famous private residences was constructed from

1935 to 1939Fallingwaterfor Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., at Bear
Ru, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
It was designed according to Wright's desire to place the occupants close
to the natural surroundings, with a stream and waterfall running under part
of the building.
The horizontal striations of stone masonry with daring cantilevers of
colored beige concrete blend with native rock outcroppings and the wooded
environment.
The construction is a series of cantilevered balconies and terraces, using
limestone for all verticals and concrete for the horizontals.
Residence of 3 floors
"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring
organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much
needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life,
holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any
preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but instead
exalting the simple laws of common sense or of super-sense if you prefer
determining form by way of the nature of materials..." - Frank Lloyd Wright,

Expressionism

Expressionism is the way of expressing

something in and around something that you feel
emotionally, from all the things that happen
phenomenally.

Expressionism is not a clearly defined term and

may have more than one definition. It can often
overlap other kinds of content and formal choices.
Nevertheless, there is a certain quality about it that
usually allows us to recognize it. Expressionist
forms are often sculptural, sometimes irrational,
usually personal and idiosyncratic. But they are
also often distorted.
The notion of identifying
expressive qualities in a building is not
necessarily the same as identifying

expressionistic
qualities.
A
building
may
convey
some
intentional meaning through its
form(expressive).
Distorted form for emotional effect,
subordination of realism
An underlying effort at achieving
the new, original,and visionary.
Themes
of
natural
romantic
phenomena, such as caves,
mountains, lightning, crystal and
rock formations.
characterized its close contemporary
art nouveau.

TheEinstein
Tower(German:Einsteint
urm) is an astrophysical
observatoryin the Albert
Einsein
Science
ParkinPotsdam,
Germanybuilt by Ericch
Mendelson. It was built
on
the
summit
ofthePotsdam
Telegraophenbergto
house a solertelescope
The
exterior
was
originally conceived in
concrete, but due to
construction
difficulties
with the complex design
and shortages from the
war, much of the building
was actually realized in
brick,
covered
with

TheEinstein Tower
The complexity of shapes that
make up the tower reflects on the
one hand, a great sense of artistic
freedom and, secondly, follows the
ideas of Mendelsohn on what he
called "functional dynamics",