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Heavy, solid, built for permanence
Durability and meaning = afterlife |
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| Santiago Calatrava and Frank Gehry |
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Airiness and no distinct ground plane
Nothing is permanent |
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Heavy to light
Permanent to ephemeral
Grounded to suspended
Ponderous to lyrical |
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Derived from power of the state
Humbled by authority, metaphor for gov't |
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| Light let in through removed masses of stone |
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| Structural integrity not compromised by subtracted stone |
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| 30 foot oculus creates condition for light to bathe statues below |
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| Another stone subtraction, lighten load of dome |
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| Articulation of wall comes to form |
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| Gothic Architecture (Cathedrals) |
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A denial of material b/c of stone lacework
Physical - All roads to church
Ideological - Servitude of people |
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Rebirth; human as center and architecture tied with all facets of life
Tempietto by Bramante
Villa Rotunda by Palladio |
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Cast iron popular
High-rise structures, stone to light steel |
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| Hybrid of Gothic arches and modern suspension system |
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| Reflect how work combined new and old ideas |
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Villa Savoye
Partially elevated, expresses machine, industry, simplicity |
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| Barcelona Pavilion, Seagram building |
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| Post-modern works and designs |
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| Nothing came out of nowhere, architecture is derivative |
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| Form follows function, outer expression of the building revealed truths about inside |
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| Dealt with proportions of ancient Greece and Rome |
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Glass pyramid in front of Louvre in Paris
Contrast of styles between glass and main museum |
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Tallest structure in the world, progression of tech.
Elegant in form, not contextual |
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Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain
Disney Concert Hall, LA
Experimentation, push construction techniques |
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Engineer, architect, sculptor
Twisting torso building, Sweden |
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Form for its own sake? Edge of responsibility
Connected with shoe design, furniture, arch, painting, etc. |
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OMA
Questions everything
Seattle library - "What is a library?" |
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Responsible for conditions as he defines them
Guthrie Theater, cantilever was expensive maneuver, arch. full of dilemmas |
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Morphosis
Pushing tech of time
Built Cooper Union and housing for Lower Ninth Ward, NO |
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Elegant, beautiful
Carried over ideals from modernism,
Jubilee church different from Gothic cathedrals |
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| Fresh approach to design flaws in Lincoln Road Parking Garage |
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| Arrangement of elements or details in product or work of art |
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| Enhance creativity and imagination to form solutions |
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Capture signif. of motion, lines taking form
Sketch in fluid, quick way |
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Communicate form, scheme and scale
Splash of ink to rep. people, understand scale b/t human and built environ. |
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| Explanations of tech and tectonics; spatial journeys through imagined form |
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Mastered use of the line
Draw simply, still be able to identify |
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Composition of parts to complete whole
Quick sketches, concern is not perfection but cohesion
Captures spirit of place by line/color placement |
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| Original building - neoclassical, connects to ancient history with museum and temple |
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| Nelson Atkins: Claes Oldenburg |
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Shuttle-cock sculptures
First stir in KC in 90s
Fun and fanciful |
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| Nelson Atkins: Bloch Addition |
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Holl places addition east of original to tumble down hill
Story conveyed to viewer |
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| Nelson Atkins: Juxtaposition |
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New and old; stone and feather
Lightness, airiness against heavy antiquity |
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| Inside space flows into itself, keeping attention of viewer |
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| Nelson Atkins: Material Choice |
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| White plaster walls and contrasting floors |
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Connection to landscape was essential
Noguchi Sculture Garden: fluidity b/t indoor and outdoor |
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| Nelson Atkins: Light Boxes |
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| Hold building up, diffused natural light, compare to a row of trees on a hillside |
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| Acts as respite b/t old and new buildings |
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| Nelson Atkins: Parking Ramp |
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Designed with undulating structure and light wells
Steven Holl was thoughtful in designing all the spaces for addition |
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| Nelson Atkins: Controversy |
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Presented as monolithic light box
At first at indust. aesthetic from construction striations
Neighbors upset by installation of hill to the east of addition |
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| Goes beyond protection, begins to say something about the world, takes on qualities of art |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Yale Gallery |
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Louis Kahn
A place for art that IS art |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Power of Memory |
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| Storehouses of memory, grand masterpieces in terms of everyday experience |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Poetry |
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"My architecture is, like feelings, directed toward what is the principle value in life, its poetry." Le Corbusier
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space." Mies van der Rohe |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Seagram and Parthenon |
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| Seagram is highest achievement of modernist epoch; could not have been created without Parthenon |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Conveyance |
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Architecture conveys aspirations of the time in art/tech.
Averages works tell most |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Lift vs. Depress |
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Some architecture lifts, some depresses
Fallingwater: An American architecture
Home place
Wonderfully set in nature
Tech. marvel for its time |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Walmart |
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Rep. symbol in our time
Consumerism in affluent society |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Good from Bad |
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| Michael Benedikt: Presence, significance, materiality, emptiness |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Experience |
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"Years ago, when I was living very briefly with a stockbroker who had a good cellar, I asked him how I could about wine...he said drink it."
Experience not sufficient, but necessary
Look once, look again, look some more
Architecture/art - make life better |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Grain Elevators |
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Sentinels of the prairie
Function perfectly expressed
Beautiful in context |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Vitruvius |
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Ancient Rome; 30 BC
Commodity; meeting needs of society, suitable, comfortable
Firmness: Structurally sound, durable, sustainable
Delight; art, joy, poetics |
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| Why Architecture Matters: Vietnam Mem. |
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| Maya Lin: Arch as a unifying force, intial controversy |
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| Criticism of phony, bogus time in arch. history |
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| Architecture of Reality: Modernism |
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What is real and how can we change without selling out?
1920s-60s; World is fresh, aesthetics turned upside-down |
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| Architecture of Reality: Post-WWII |
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Arch. was stripped down
Buildings expressed mere use |
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| Architecture of Reality: Villa Savoye |
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| Architecture of Reality: Barcelona Pavillion |
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| Mies van der Rohe; elegance, classical ideal |
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| Architecture of Reality: After Modernism |
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Post-
Deconstruction
The New Modernism
Now ________? |
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| Architecture of Reality: Post-Modernism |
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Reaction to glass boxes and machines for living; readily accepted by architects
Venturi and Graves |
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| Architecture of Reality: Haiku |
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| Minimum expression of the direct experience; basis is to mean only what it is |
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| Architecture of Reality: Presence |
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A sense of being; rightness
People have it - commanding personality, assertion, personal appeal
Louis Kahn |
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| Architecture of Reality: Significance |
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| Close to importance; being of itself, no symbolism |
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| Architecture of Reality: Materiality |
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Trusted materials - stone, steel, glass, concrete
Distrusted - Synthetic
Salk Institute - Kahn left tie holes in concrete as an expression of its construction |
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| Architecture of Reality: Emptiness |
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| Not an absence; resound with sound; Murcutt and Holl |
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| Steven Holl: Phenomenology |
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| Experience essence to find inspirational existence |
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| Steven Holl: Kiasma Museum |
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Intertwining forms based on cultural reference in Helsinki
Referred to as Gordian Knot |
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| Steven Holl: Sensory Realist Attitude |
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Arch. that engages all senses; derived from the encounter
Enmeshed experience in which space, light, color, geom., detail and material are intertwined
Mannerheim Statue very important |
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| Movement of body through space; experience is essential to understand due to quality of movement through space |
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| Steven Holl: Juhanni Pallasma |
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| Steven Holl left middle scale open for the artwork to speak |
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| Use to dissolve the threshold between interior and exterior |
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| Green, sustainable building solutions in arch. |
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| France: Architecture and Culture |
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| France: Gardens of France |
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| Popes Palace Courtyard; Garden of Versailles |
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| France: Find beauty in... |
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Geometry
Symmetry
Grace
Light
Meaning
Simplicity |
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| France: Gothic Cathedrals |
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| Light very important; Chartres Cathedral, San Chapelle, Notre Dame |
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| New and old; advance without destroying the past |
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Very important to growth:
Public works projects
Arch.
Restoration of old buildings, castles, cathedrals, etc.
Art
Culture |
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