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Filippo Brunelleschi
Definition

(1377-1446)

Architecture based on mathematics- reaston

Figured out arch and dome...vanishing points

Starting point for neoclassic architecture

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Leon Batista Alberti
Definition

(1404-1472)

Wrote 2  books, "On Painting", own version of 10 books of architecture

How to do perspectival instrusction

revives western dialogue on architecture

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Sir Thomas More
Definition

(1478-1535)

Eutopia-describes the perfect state

coming out of war, lots of death

U-topia-no place

Eu-topia-good place

critiquing what was going on at time, slyly

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Shakespear
Definition

(1564-1616)

"The Tempest"

Recaptured European view of perfect place. Arcadia: paradise and death

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Thomas Jefferson
Definition

(1743-1826)

Jeffersonian Grid

Rational system-organize performative ideal

Everyone farmers

4 militias and school in center

Roman empire through process of centuration-

citizen soldiers, mark out land and grid. soldiers became farmers

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Henry David Thoreau
Definition

(1817-1862)

"Walden"

Not civilized society based on agriculture but self reliance and simplicity

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Adolph Loos
Definition

(1870-1933)

Train Paris vs. Vienna

Changes way we see land

Space and distance, ground disappears

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Walter Benjamin
Definition

(1892-1940)

"Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

Final and absolute transformation of land and landscape.

Physical performative difference of land and landscape.

Phenomenology-

physical: land

psychological: landscape

20th century confusing land and landscape

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Lewis Mumford
Definition

(1895-1990)

"The City in History"

(at same time as Moses)

historian not architect

cities are designed for people

New York (moses wanted to modernize)

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J.B. Jackson
Definition

(1895-1990)

"Landscapes"

Ideas span over long period.

Questions the state of place.

The country was organized under Eutopian ideals.

Re-organize so we can live in 20th century

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Jane Jacobs
Definition

(1916-2006)

"Death and Life of Great American Cities"

Lose of the street: people, density, diversity.

New York gets 1 big park

concerned big open spaces in city.

Conscience of social and anthropologic facts.

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Ian McHarg
Definition

(1920-2001)

"Design with Nature"

Concern for ecology

Solve complex systems in layers

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Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown
Definition

(1925-) (1931-)

Pritzer 1991

"Learning From Las Vegas"

Duck (express what it is)

Decorated Shed (box w/ decoration)

Crawford Manor

Guild House

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Rem Koolhaas
Definition

(1941-)

"Delirious New York"

Pritzer 2000

Parc de la Vilette (5 layers)

Urban space, critique athletic club

Big buildings become unified.

density + culture of congestion=dynamic.

environment on the inside.

elevator is spine in club.

cannot get culture of congest. w/out density and diversity.

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Richard Rogers
Definition

(1933-)

Pritzer 2007

Global

Cities for a Small Planet

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