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AHI 187 Midterm
Pluralism, Modernism, Post-modernism, Rationalism, High-Tech
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Art History
08/23/2010

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Dutton Hall, 1998-9, Fisher Friedman Associates

Pluralistic

Samples traditional style and makes jokes about history/tradition

Contemporary take on traditional style

Welcoming, domestic, contextual

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Mondavi Center, 1998, BOORA Architects

Pluralistic

Contemporary, modernist (see Bauhaus)

"Unheroic" architecture

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Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, 1922


Howard Building, Downing College, Cambridge, 1989, Quinlan Terry

 

Parthenon, 118-432 BCE, Iktinos & Kallikrates

 

Villa Capra, near Vicenza Italy, begun c. 1556-7, Andrea Palladio

 

Ideal of civilization, destiny, history

Symmetrical, regular shapes/spacing

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Radiant City, 1922, Le Corbusier

 

Brasilia, Brazil, 1950s

 

Progress in technology will solve all problems

Cut down the old, start anew

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Pruitt-Igoe scheme, St. Louis, Missouri, 1950-54, Minoru Yamasaki

 

End of Modernism

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Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 1926, Walter Gropius

 

Most famous Modernist building

 

Lacks roof, floating glass windows, smooth uni-colored walls

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Gable
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The triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof.

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Broken pediment
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When raking cornice is left open at the apex.

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String course
Definition

A continuous narrow horizontal course or moulding which projects slightly from the surface of a wall.

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Segmental arch
Definition

 

A section of arch that equals the arc of a circle less than a half circle.

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