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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
03/16/2017

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man ray-the kiss
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Etienne Louis- Boullee, projet pour la bibliotheque du Roi
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"This futurist architecture cannot be subject to any law of historical continuity"
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Antonio Sant'Elia and ET Marinetti-The futurist Manifesto
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Antonio Santelia
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E.T> Marinetti
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La Citta Nuova- Santelia
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Fritz Lang's Metropolis
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"History does not bother us very much now... I am a tradtionalist. I believe in history"
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Philip Johnson
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"Ultimately the history of architecture is the material of architecture"
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Aldo Rossi
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Teatro del Mondo- Aldo Rossi
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"To produce meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it"
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Daniel Libeskind
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"The arrow of time"
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architecture is not about space, it is about time
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empty space/voids=loss of lives every victim of Holocost in elevation of buildings

holocaust museum-daniel libiskind

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"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong"
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Buckminster Fuller
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"Architecture is the learned game, correct, and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light"
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Le COrbusier
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Le Corbusier vs. Buckminster Fuller
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artist vs Inventor
Tradition vs Technology
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Villa Savoye- Le Corbusier
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Dymaxion house- Buckminster Fuller
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Where does "Dymaxion" come from
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Dy=dynamix Max=Maximum Ion= tension
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Dymaxion house qualities
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environmently efficient
affordable
trasferable
made for purpose
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Dymaxion Bathroom
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Dymaxion car
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Still life
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Technology vs Tradition Architectural Review is by...
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Reyner Banham
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Le Corbusier used architecture to define....
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The ills of society
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architecture or revolution is where
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Le Corbusier used architecture to define the ills of society
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Utopia or OBlivian is where
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Buckminster FUller says Utopia can be attained by fearless use of our modern tech. discoveries

 

utopia needs to include everyone

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Buckminster Fuller- Dymaxion MAp
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"Less is a bore"
"More is More"
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Robert Venturi
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center of MOMA exhibition
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Villa Savoye
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Alfred Barr-director of MOMA
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Philip Johnson
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Henry Hitchcock
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the glass house- philip johnson
denied self from idea of privacy
extremely radial
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Kiefhook housing - JJP Oud
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3 major principles of keifhook housing and who is it by

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emphasis of volume over mass regularity and standardisation of elements

avoidance of ornament (establishing new style in architecture)

 

its by JJP OUD

 

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JJP OUD
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Mies van der rohe
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walter gropius
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Richard Neutra
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Cafe de unie rotterdam- JJP Oud
"poetic functionalism"
spatial expression to define architecture
special relationship to create elevations and plans
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Lovell Health House- Richard Neutra
-tension cables onto rock as foundation, avoiding sand
Gunite-used for house
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bauhaus
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"architecture house"
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Adrian Forty
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critique on MOMA exhibition
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Who was Le corbusier obseessed with(architecture wise)
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Eilene Gray
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What was Le Corbusier's "Vers Une ARchitecture" about?
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radical comparisons of new civilization= architecture is a logic of habitation relative to human life

Architecture needs to keep up with time; just like how cars and airplanes are updated. from his time to now-we are moving forward in modern architecture and not failing him. We should not be repeating architecture of the past.

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5 architectures facts for new function/new kind of building
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The supports
the roof gardens
the free designing of the ground-plan
The horizontal window
free design of the facade
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Pavillon de l'esprit Nouveau by Le Corbesier has paintings....
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defining purism and modernism decorating the interior
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Maison Domino by Le Corbusier and Max DuBois contains a reinforced concrete construction system called...
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Hennebique, a monolithic element
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Le Corbusier- Unite D'Habitation prefabricated cell
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What is prefabricated cell?
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Le Corbusier wanted to take standardized city by replaacing building with skyscrapers
urbanization
considering complexity, chaos
Putting his hand over "Radiant city"
wants to give it a new clean look with skyscrapers
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what is the shared critique on Le Corbusiers urbanized plan
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hated-critiqued his downfall
because city's have more diversity with it's imperfection
perfection kills city vibes
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"The artists stand alone. THe old forms are ruins, the benumbed world is shaken up, the old human spirit is invalidated and in flux towards a new form. We float in space and cannot perceive the new order"
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Proclamation fo the Weimar Bauhaus
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Walter Gropius from manifesto of Bauhaus in Weimar
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Cathedral illustration by yonel Feininger
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Augustus Pugin
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Bruno Taut- Alpine Architecture
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Bauhaus new building in Weimar
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model of walter gropius for the realization of the Bauhaus in Dessau
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Marcel Breuer
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Lis Beyer
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Metal Party- Oskar Schlemmer
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what is bauhaus
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most influential modernist art school in the 2oth century
understanding arts relationship to society and technology
Bauhaus aimed to unite creativity and manufacturing as they were drifting apart
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constructivism
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the theory or use of mechanical structures in theatrical settings
an artistic movement, concerned with expression by constructions
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what is the realist manifesto and by who?
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Nau Gabo and ANtoine Pevsner boundaries of spaces rejected and can be infinite/more space from outside buildings should not be a closed mass Rejectiong of decorative color but color needs meaning to building every line of work of art not just decorative but constructive inclusion of time as a new element and rejection of static art

 

divorcing art from lines, color, volume, mass and claiming there are no boundaries of space

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what is INKhuk
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Institute of Artistic Culture Moscow
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faktura
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the particular material properties of an object
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tektonika
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its spatial presence
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VKhutemas
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higher state artistic and technical studios

 

design school in communist russia

 

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ASNOVA is founded by who
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association founded by Nikolai Ladovsky
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realist manifesto
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Naum Gabo
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Kinetic Construction(Standing Wave) - Naum Gabo
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Oval Hanging COnstruction - Aleksandr Rodchenko
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Letatlin - Vladimir Tatlin
rotating at progressively faster speeds
envisioned as energy from the ground itself
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Tatlin's TOwer - Vladimir Tatlin proposal
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Lenin Tribune - El Lissitzky
Tensile Cable
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The shabolovka Radio TOwer
own architectural aesthetic as a Radio tower
image of nationalism
cables of symbolism
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THe first constructivist Exhibition
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Vkhutemas poster celebrating 5 year plan
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Wolkenbugel- Lissitzky
skyscraper that is horizontal and vertical, elevated piers, open face lift shafts
Graphicss embedded around
horizontal clearly separated from vertical
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Wolkenbugel Skyhook - Lissitzky
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Zuyev Workers' CLub - llya Golosov
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Melnikov's house - Konstantin Melnikov****
soviet architect
2 interlocking landers
many windows,, flocking with highs
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Soviet Pavilion at the Paris World's Fair Konstantin Melnikov
masterful propoganda instrument
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Leningradskaia Pravda - Aleksandr and Victor Vesnin
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Palace of Labor- Aleksandr and Victor Vesnin
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Petrograd- Kazimir Malevic
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Lenin Institute of librarianship- Nicolai Leonidov
relationship between supremetism and constructivism
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points in ASNOVA
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THeir concentration are psychorganin effects.
SCulptural>functionalism
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organic
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forming an integral element of a whole;fundamental
having systemetic coordination of parts;organized
having the characteristics of an organism; developing in the manner of a living plant/animal
of relating/arising in a bodily organ
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"Beauty seems to have made no sense long at any time. I believe the time has come when BEauty msut make sense fo our time at least... In this modern era Art, Science, Religion- these three will unite and be one, unity achieved with organic arthictectures as centre"
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FLW's declaration of ORganic Architecture at the RIBA lectures in London
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"The labourer in America follows a different principle: he builds one room and then as time goes on, a second and third to meet his progressively changing requirements...THe American's attitud eis more evolutional and closer to natural growth-in a word, organic: the exterior forms are derivatives of the inerior space"
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"Towards and Organic Arrchitecture" - Bruno Zevi
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some differences between organic and inorganic arhcitecture
-Walter Curt
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formative art vs fine art
in close contact with nature vs against nature
realism vs idealism
naturalism vs stylism
irregular forms vs regular forms(classic)
dynamic forms vs static forms
based on freedom from geometry vs geometry and stereometry
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WHat is Fallacy 1-naturalism
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THe mistaken belief that we need to imitate nature(too literal)
or adding earth literally onto the building
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What is fallacy 2-biological analogy
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AN error in taking architecture too intensely. Natural like biologically/the body is full of complexities. the misinterpration of going as complex as a real body/too intense??
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Organic elements of FLW's falling water
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rooted in site
natural materials
democratic american spirit/freedom
architecture of essence
organic worldview
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broadacre city
expresses idea of american transendalism
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Louis Henry Sullivan
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The awakening of the pentagon- Louis Sullivan
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Guaranty Building- Louis Sullivan
Looks at details, what are seeds for geometric transformations
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Carson pirie scott department store
steel structure to allow many windows
SUllivan designed ornamental corners, aesthetics to give characters to stores
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Bruno Zevi
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Organic design in home furnishings- Eliot Nayes
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Robie House
best ex. of prairie school style
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THe Arthur Heurtley House in Oak Park
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Johnson Wax HEadquarters
lily pads
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Chemical architecture - William Katavolos
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A Cybord Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-FEminism in the LAte Twentieth Century" - Donna Haraway
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What writer inspired FLW(organic)
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Henry David Thoreau
"Cabin in the woods"
idea of imersing with nature
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what did critiques fine about falling water organic points
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found them to be redundant
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supremetism
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Kazmir Malevic-
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either/or
both/and
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either/or : forces you to choose

borht/and by robert venturi
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