Contemporary City for the 3 Million Inhabitants

Le Corbusier

1922

Never Built

Utopian Idealogical City, Plan for Paris - Proposal to solve housing crisis after WWI

Weissenhof

Various Architects (organized by Mies Van Der Rohe)

1920

Stuttgart, Germany

Tried to unite people from all different social classes

Broadacre City

Frank Lloyd Wright

Never built - In his book "Disappearing City"

1935

Plan for Suburbia - Decentralization (b/c of automobile)

Barcelona Pavillion

Mies Van Der Rohe

1920-1929

Barcelona at International Exhibition

Representation of the cultural values of Germany that changed since the imperial rule (post WWI)

Seagram Building

Mies Van Der Rohe

1960

New York

Reinforcing the verticle design with the 'I' beams attached to the facade - not real construction

Villa Savoy

Le Corbusier

1928

France

Full realization of 5 points of architecture

Unite d'Habitation

Le Corbusier

1952

France

City within a building

Chandigar High Court and Parliament Building

Le Corbusier

1951

Chandigar, India

reference ancient ruins, moved away from 5 points

Ronchamp

Le Corbusier

1950

France

Looks heavy and light at the same time - turning point to Corb's 2nd phase of work

Paimio Sanatorium

Alvar Aalto

1930

Finland

exposure of light and fresh air was said to help the patients inside - total work of art

Baker House

Alvar Aalto

MIT, Cambridge, MA

1950

Reflected the curves of the river

Saynatsalo

Alvar Aalto

Finland

1950

Built from local materials, trying to create an identity for the comunity

Falling Water

Frank Lloyd Wright

Pennsylvainia

1939

Seen as landmark of FLW's career, intergrated the building with the environment

Taliesin West

Frank Lloyd Wright

Arizona

1939

Combined the Nomadic Tent and the Pit house

The Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright

NYC
1959

His last commision before his death

Salk Institute

Louis Khan

California

1960

Focus on Perspective and Vanishing Points (water feature looks like its fading into the ocean)

Kimbell Art Museum

Louis Khan

Fort Worth Texas

1960

Used pre-stressed concrete

University of Leicester Engineering Building

James Stirling

1960

UK

 Truely Brutalism, The poetry of the rustic factory, Distortion + Paradox

Neue Staatsgalerie (New City Gallery)

James Stirling

Stutgart

1980

Cubist Style, Fragmented

Plaza of the Three Powers

Oscar Neimeyer

Brazilia, Brazil

1960

Referenced idea of infinity, abstract shapes, each shape has to do with a different part of the government

Hancock Tower

I.M.Pei

Boston, MA

1972

Disappear in the sky and reflect the city - The reflective surface mirrors history (The Trinity Church)

Orphanage Amsterdam

Aldo Van Eyck

Amsterdam

1955

Making an arguement against monumentalism through the influence of african villages

Centraal Beheer

Herman Hertzberger

Apeldoorn, Holland

1968-1974

Challenged the idea of structuralism, heiarchy and repetition of a certain element

Sydney Opera House

John Utzon

Sydney, Austrailia

1957-73

The landmark of the entire country, shape based on acoustics

Vanna Venturi House

Robert Venturi

Pennsylvainia

1964

Architecture as means of Communication - symbols of a house rearranged

Piazza de'Italia

Charles Moore

New Orleans

1976-9

An inronic twist on Roman Architecture - built to serve the italian community - pictoral classisim - fountain of architect spitting water

Lever House

SOM

1952

NYC

Seminal glass box office tower - set tone for that type of building

Yale Art and Architecture Building

Paul Rudolph

1963

Connecticut

Great example of Brutalism

Pompidou Center

Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers

Paris

1977

High Tech Style - revealed what is normally hidden by walls

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank

Norman Foster

1986

Hong Kong

Dramatic skeletal structure on outside

Lloyds Building

Richard Rogers

1984

London

Structure exposed on outside in an ornamental way

Wexner Center for the Visual Arts

Peter Eisenmann

Colubus, Ohio

1989

Collision of shifted grids

Early:

Early:

• inspirations:
• desert landscape
• nomadic tent
• goals:
• be a school for FLW’s students
• an escape from Chicago - middle of nowhere

• for scientific research - labs + place to think
• great use of one point perspective - anchored by center river to ocean
• influences of renaissance art: ideal perspective, italian looking landscape

- in center of Paris, in oldest area of Paris - Shock, Breakthrough - looks unfinished - revealed ducts and structure - facade is open

- top of escalator has one of the most beautiful views in paris - observation deck

- open feel - nothing inside -> any art can be there

- looks industrial - beginning of high-tech

Early:

- Le Corbusier's most celebrated work

- great example of 5 pts

- Free Plan - no separation between in and out, dialogue between rooms

- "Architectural Promonade" - intentional path

- Plutonian - idealistic scheme

- "window frames" landscape