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•Site is in old Beaubourg neighborhood of Paris
•Curtain wall construction
•Mechanical elements moved to exterior of building to free up space inside
•Named after President Pompidou who wanted to create a new museum for modern art
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Dominus Winery
• Completed in 1977
• Yountville, California
• Designed by Swiss architects: Herzog and de Meuron
• Walls created with gabions filled
with rocks—a “sandwich” of wire
mesh filled with basalt rocks
• Wine storage warehouse and
offices
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Milwaukee Art Museum
Designed by Santiago Calatrava
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2001
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Packard Motor Car Company
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Packard Motor Car Company
American luxury automobile built by
the Packard Motor Car Company of
Detroit, and later by the Studebaker-Packard
Corporation of South Bend, Indiana.
First models built in 1899
Last “true” Packard built
in 1956.
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Toyota Prius
History
In 1994, Toyota executive Takeshi Uchiyamada was
given the task of creating a new car which would be
both fuel efficient and environmentally friendly.
Name
The word prius is a Latin word meaning "[to go] before.“ A Toyota spokesman stated that "Toyota chose this name because the Prius vehicle is the predecessor of cars to come."
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Packard 733 Coupe built in 1930
Designed for the wealthy
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Samuel Mockbee
(1944 – 2001)
• co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio Program
• Stressed social responsibilities of architectural practice
• Known for his quirky “regionalism”
• Awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius
Grant for his “architecture of decency.”
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Bryant (Hay Bale) House
Designed by
Students in the
The Rural Studio
and
Samuel Mockbee
1994
Hale County, AL
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Harris House (Butterfly House) 1997
• Roof collects rainwater which is used for toilet and laundry
• Natural ventilation; large porch
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Mason’s Bend Community Center, 2000
• 15 ft. x 30 ft. open-air pavillion
• Rammed-earth walls
• Metal and glass roof, gravel floor
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Yancey Tire Chapel
To form the chapel’s walls, the students filled 1,000 donated old tires with soil, fortified them with reinforcing bars, wrapped them with wire mesh, and coated them with stucco
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Additive Color Mixing Primary |
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Additive Color Mixing: Mixture of
colored light ultimately leading to white.
Primary Colors:
•Red
•Green
•Blue
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Additive Color Mixing Secondary |
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Additive Color Mixing: Mixture of
colored light ultimately leading to white.
Secondary Colors:
•Magenta
•Yellow
•Cyan
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Subtractive Color Mixing Primary |
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Subtractive Color Mixing: Mixture of colored pigments ultimately leading to black.
Primary Colors:
•Red
•Yellow
Blue |
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Subtractive Color Mixing Secondary |
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Subtractive Color Mixing: Mixture of colored pigments ultimately leading to black.
Secondary Colors:
•Orange
•Green
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•Violet
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Color: Can be described in terms of Hue, Value and Chroma.
• Hue: Denotes the “family” to which the color belongs, such as red.
• Value: The lightness or darkness of a color, achieved by adding white or black.
• Chroma: The purity or intensity of a color
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Color: Can also be described in terms of whether it is a Surface, Film or Volume color.
• Surface: Color that is “painted on” such as the color of a car.
• Film: Color that is transparent and alters the perception of what is seen. Example: Looking through rose-colored glasses.
• Volume: Color that is consistent throughout, such as orange jello or a red neon sign.
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Warm Colors:
Appear to advance, and
are on the orange side
of the color wheel.
Cool Colors: Appear
to recede and are on the
blue side of the color
wheel.
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Complementary Colors: Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
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High Key Colors:
Colors that are bright,
light, and pure tend to
be dynamic and
uplifting and convey a
more “happy” mood.
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Low Key Colors:
Colors that are dull,
dark and cool tend
to be more static
and understated,
and convey a sad”
mood.
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Color Strategies: Analogous
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Color Strategies: Achromatic/Neutral
Pablo Picasso: Guernica (1937)
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Color Strategies: Complementary
Henri Matisse
Ivy in Flower
(1953)
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Color Strategies: Split Complementary
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Color Strategies: Triadic
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New Concepts:
Subtraction of Hue: The phenomenon that occurs when a background color subtracts itself and its value from the color it carries
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New Concepts:
Vibration: The phenomenon that occurs when colors are arranged such that they appear to compete with each other and create a dynamic effect.
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New Concepts:
Optical Mix: When small dots of color are placed adjacent to each other, your eye will perceive a blended color rather than the individual dots.
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New Concepts:
After Image: The phenomenon that occurs when the cones of the eye become fatigued, and the eye perceives the complement of that color.
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New Concepts:
Color trumps form: We tend to notice color before we notice shape or form; color can obscure or modify the perception of form.
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