AEG Turbine Factory

Peter Behrens

1908-1909

- designs EVERYTHING

- has a large crane to move turbines

- has a quality of stripped classicism

- there are forceful bold statements representing the first architectural attempts to deal with industrial facilities

Asplund Cottage

Asplund

1937

- uses traditional material in a modern way

- flows with the slope

Asplund Cottage

Asplund

1937

Barcelona Pavilion

Mies van der Rohe

1929

down to base- travertine

-treated as taute surfaces

-cruciform column (in form of cross), polished chrome plated steel

Barcelona Pavilion

Mies van der Rohe

1929

Bauhaus

Gropius

1926

-de stijl influence in his office

- help designed by students and faculty

- automobile comes right through the middle

- has the floating inset base, and a spiral staircase (rotation to it... has a feeling of twisting)

Bauhaus

Gropius

1926

Carpenter Center for Visual Arts

LeCorbusier

1959-63

- diagonal program built around the circulation of the campus (harvard)

- only bldg in US

- concrete (not red brick like other bldgs around)

House Jaoul

LeCorbusier

1954-56

Haus am Horn

George Muche

1923

-dealt with mass production

-interior was designed in a workshop

Hennebique System/Dom-ino Skeletal System

LeCorbusier

1914-15

- developed these because he thought after the war we would need more housing

- could be mass produced

-exterior could be done how you wanted 

Casa del Fascio

Guiseppe Terragni

1932-36

cladded in marble

- parti based on Italian courtyard house plan

- maticulous of proportions/systems

Casa del Fascio

Giuseppe Terragni

1932-36

Casa del Fascio

Guiseppe Terragni

1932-36

Chandigarh Assembly Building

LeCorbusier

1952-65

- can read local tradition with geometry

- courtyard building

Chandigarh Palace of Justice

LeCorbusier

1952-65

- responsive to local climate

- roof form a large umbrella over bldg, scoop form to draw one in ,frame composition

-assymetrical entry

Chandigarh Assembly Building

LeCorbusier

1952-65

Chandigarh Palace of Justice

LeCorbusier

1952-65

Chandigarh Plan

LeCorbusier

1952-65

- each building carries throughout a theme

- created on a gridded system that articulates downtown and shows layered heirarchial city system

Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut

LeCorbusier

1950-54

- not orthagonal

- serves as multiple chapels

-gunnite creates more texture on the walls (his walls used to be taute)

- roof seems really massive & billowy, board form concrete; heavy lid to top of composition

- slight reveal makes roof seem to float from the inside (on the outside seems heavy, inside seems light)

Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut

LeCorbusier

1950-54

Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut

LeCorbusier

1950-54

Exhibition Housing

Mies van der Rohe

1927

- intended for new style, concerned with provision of efficient modern housing in postwar Europe

- easily manipulated to meet many needs

- rhythm and repetition- vertical units, etc.; grid

Exhibition Housing

Mies van der Rohe

1927

Fagus Shoe Factory

Gropius and Adolf Meyer

1911-12

- trying tobring in the modern architecture into a gothic small town

- like grazing is hung from structure, from cornice

- the elements in the structure later characterize the international style: glass curtain walls between expressed steel supports, corners left free of solid masonry, and simple rectangular massing with a flat roof

Five Points of New Architecture

LeCorbusier 1926

- these 5 points define new esthetic for building design

1. Pilotis

2. Free Plan

3. Roof Garden

4. Free Facade

5. Long Window

Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper

Mies van der Rohe

1921

- skin and bones architecture

Haus am Horn

Meyer and Muche

1923

- gone is the expressionist quality, and individual mark/artist

- atrium style lifted roof 

-designed in workshop, mass produced

- embraces mass production

Haus Wolf

Mies van der Rohe

1925-26

-courtyard spins out into the landscape giving it a modern aspect with taute walls, precise incision in walls, and techtonic understanding

Haus Jaoul

LeCorbusier

1954-56

- accused of selling out to earlier modern traditions

- tectonic panels on the building- even the windows act as panels

-barrel vaults rest on 3 bed bearing walls

-you can see the wood frame where the concrete was poured on the exterior

la Citta Nuova

Antonio Sant'Elia

1913-14

- characterized by bold massing without ornamentation, verticality, and battered or step-backed walls, multiple levels of horizontal circulation, external elevators, and exposed power production facilities

Light Dome

Albert Speer

1937

- he took the lights and turned upside down to provoke an inspiration of feeling for the Germans

- meant for rally points to reinforce and bring people into the party

- the lights were used as huge columns

Lister County Courthouse

EG Asplund

1917-21

-the axis of main street ends at this building

- he didn't put the main focal point at the center axis, he off skewed it

- he off set the oculus in the court room and the floor plan is off-centered

- stripped down classical elements

- ran gable on short side to give bldg presence in the town

Lister County Courthouse

EG Aslpund

1917-21

Maison Citrohan

LeCorbusier

1925-27

- volume not mass

- clean incisions filled in with large industrial glazing system

- the base is a dark color making the bldg float with a strongly refined plan

Maison Citrohan (project)

LeCorbusier

1920

Maison Citrohan

LeCorbusier

1925-27

Monastery of La Tourette

LeCorbusier

1953-57

- it was on a difficult site, used piers as a structure

- strong slope, experience the bldg in the round

- 3 components: the main chapel (vertical), housing for monks (strong horizontal), and then the public area

Monastery of La Tourette

LeCorbusier

1953-57

Monument to Leibknect and Luxemburg

Mies van der Rohe

1926

- used klinker bricks (not uniform color or shape of brick) of the firing squad fall

-very stable, landed on the ground (visually doesn't look grounded)

-tectonic wall

- very energetic treatment of the brick

Paimio Sanitarium

Alto

1929-30

- deals with the topography

- meant for the functions of the patients (plenty of sunlight, fresh air)

- wings are pointed and skewed

- dark recessive base

- conforms to the suns path of light

Paimio Sanitarium

Alto

1929-30

Paimio Sanitarium

Alto

1929-30

Palace of the Soviet Competition- Permeated

Boris Iofan

1934

- turning on modernism, huge propoganda

- classicism because the population were undereducated and wouldn't understand modern design

Petite Maison de Weekend

LeCorbusier

1935

- lets material show through

- engages the landscape in design

-didn't use the 5 points of arch

-barrel vaulting with an archaic quality to the spaces

- exposed raw natural shape of the brick work used for the fire place and shelves

Petite Maison de Weekend

LeCorbusier

1935

Petite Maison de Weekend

LeCorbusier

1935

Pravda Building (project)/Lenin Tribute

Vesnin Brothers

1923

- building for the newspaper

- skeletal frame of steel including x-bracing, they attached external elevators and a clock with digital readouts, and atop they placed a searchlight as a metaphor for the Communist experiment

Project for a Brick Country House/Rhythm of a Russian Folk Dance

Mies van der Rohe

1923

-pragmatic, but also knits all different influences together

Resor House

Mies van der Rohe

1938

- was originally remodeled

- his 1st project in the US

- used the windows to frame the nature outside

- almost nothing, reduction to bare minimum

-fairly local material connects to ground (one becomes fireplace)

Resor House

Mies van der Rohe

1938

Roma Eur. Palazzo della Civilia

Guerrini, LA Paldua and Romano

1940

- pure cubic form built up on platform

- similar concept as the Berlin project

- the building with the arches

Saynatsalo Town Hall

Alto

1949

- has to do lots of function

-brick, hard shell

- form is a bit more extracted

- heavy textile quality with the brick

-distinguishes the difference in near and far

- develops a dialogue between the natural and the urban

-orthogonal layout, the brick volume of the council chamber dominates the ensemble

- sloped roof profile reflecting a graceful wooden fan truss inside

Saynatsalo Town Hall

Alto

1949

Saynatsalo Town Hall

Alto

1949

Saynatsalo Town Hall

1949

Schroder House

Garrit Rietveld

1923-1924

- red/blue chair

-bypassing of planes

-dematerializing of the edges

-interior flexible layout with moveable walls (partition walls)

Schroder House

Rietveld

1923-24

Sommerfield House

Gropius

1920-21

-material is hard to find

-the client bought an old boat for material

- made completely out of wood

Sommerfield House

Gropius

1920-21

South-Western Finland Agricultural Co-op

Alto

1926-28

- classical references- courtyard planning

- reference of Asplund (Stockholm Library)

- low relief sculpture and signage

- large cinema space inside (the building wraps around like circling in on itself)

South-Western Finland Agricultural Co-op

Alto

1926-28

Stockholm City Library/Viipuri Public Library

Stockholm City Library

Asplund

1920-28

- stripped down a lot more than the original design

- librarian is the focal point

Stockholm City Library

Asplund

1920-28

Stockholm City Library

Asplund

1920-28

Tugendhat House

Mies van der Rohe

1928-30

- free plan where planes float on columns

- very exquisite materials

- Barcelona chair

Tugendhat House

Mies van der Rohe

1928-30

Unite d'Habitation

LeCorbusier

1947-53

- baton route: hand craft coming into play instead of machinist style

- free facade in different forms, skin is no longer a wrapper

- you can read what is going on inside of building

- human spirit ensized into the building (modular man)

Unite d'Habitation

LeCorbusier

1947-53

Viipuri Public Library

Alto

1929

- similar to the Stockholm Library (inside- move up and around past circulation desk)

- loves to use daylight in design, bouncing light off walls and studies the reflection of sound

Viipuri Public Library

Alto

1929

Villa Mairea

Alto

1938-39

- clients of wood industruy

- walls that are pushed out are rendered in wood

- uses machine timber binds the columns where people come in contact (really binded everything people touched)

- entry canopy style on the first plane of the steps

- constant change of materiality

- local craft traditions

Villa Mairea

Alto

1938-39

Villa Mairea

Alto

1938-39

Villa Savoye

LeCorbusier

1928-31

- weekend res for Paris folks

- little white box floating in big green meadow

- prominade goes all the way thru the bldg

- appears to hover

- pure diagram of the rectangle isn't so pure

- big sculptural elements sticking up

- long strip of ribbon windows only (middle are glazed)

- go around the bldg before you get to the front door

- the artful incorporation of varied spatial experiences and light within a simple geometric container testifies to the mastery form of LeCorbusier by 1930

Villa Savoye

LeCorbusier

1928-31

Villa Schwob

LeCorbusier

1916

- cut pieces out of grid, used proportional lines throughout the design

Villa Schwob

LeCorbusier

1916

Villa Snellman

Asplund

1917-18

- stripped classical- primal geometry

- the offset wing in plan creates enclosure of the courtyard

- strong wood detailing on the interior

Villa Snellman

Asplund

1917-18

Villa Stein

LeCorbusier

1926-28

- dematerializes the bldg

- strong cubic volume

- undermine's classical views of bldg, not really a frame of bldg, dematerializes the corners

- asymetrical but front door still has greater hierarchy

- the golden section/rectangle was used for proportions

Villa Stein

LeCorbusier

1926-28

Villa Stein

LeCorbusier

1926-28

Werkbund Pavilion (Cologne Exhibition)

Gropius and Meyer

1914

- has a glazed skin over it (not what you expect on facade of bldg)

Werkbund Pavilion (Cologne Exhibition)

Gropius and Meyer

1914

Woodland Chapel

Asplund

1918-20

- uses vernacular materials

- the stripped down tuscan columns are a continuance of the tree trunks

- invokes a traditional wood hut

- step pyramidal shingled roof

- the gutters hide the capitals to allow them to blend in with trees

- the situation cannot permit a bldg volume large enough to stand out monumentally against the natural setting