13rooklyn 13ridge (Architecture+) Flashcards
“Casa Milà in Barcelona”
Antoni Gaudi
Spanish
Catalan Modernism
(Also called La Pedrera or The Quarry)
(Figure eight shape)
(Compared to ‘waves on the sea’)
(Crushed green glass bottles from its grand opening party cover one set of helmet-like chimneys atop this building)
(Attic laundry room is rib-like arches)
(Ironwork balconies designed by Josep Marie Jujol)
(Ave Marie is carved on its facade)
(Supposed to be topped by statue of Mary)
(Featured the first underground parking lot)
“House of the Botines”
“Casa de los Botines”
Antoni Gaudi
Spanish
Catalan Modernism
(used four medieval-style towers and a moat)
(Neo-Gothic)
“Colegio de las Teresianas”
“School for Nuns”
Antoni Gaudi
Spanish
Catalan Modernism
(in Barcelona)
(Uses parabolic arches)
(early work)
“Pavillions at the Guell Estate”
Antoni Gaudi
Spanish
Catalan Modernism
(Wrought-iron gate in the shape of a dragon)
(Estate contains the Baldiro Tower)
“Sagrada Família”
Antoni Gaudi
Spanish
Catalan Modernism
STILL UNFINISHED
(Featured the Nativity, Passion, and Glory facades)
(Supposed to have 18 spires)
“Torre Agbar in Barcelona”
Jean Nouvel
French
Modern architecture
(38 story skyscraper)
(Nouvel said it was based off of a geyser near Montserrat, near Barcelona)
“Casa Martí in Barcelona”
Josep Puig i Cadafalch
Spanish
Modernista architecture
(Gothic architecture)
(Home of the cafe “The Four Cats”)
Area of Barcelona featuring works of Barcelona’s top modernista architects
Block of Discord
Architects are:
Lluís Domènech i Montaner
Antoni Gaudí
Josep Puig i Cadafalch
Enric Sagnier
“El Drac in Park Guell in Barcelona”
Antoni Gaudi
Spanish
Catalan Modernism
(mosaic covered)
(supposed to be a dragon, actually a salamander)
“Casa Batlló in Barcelona”
Antoni Gaudi
Spanish
Catalan modernism
(House of Bones)
(Roof features dragon back design)
“Barcelona Museum of Contempary Art”
“MACBA”
Richard Meier
American
Abstract architecture
(A series of ramps behind a louvered glass curtain wall faces El Raval’s Plaça dels Angels)
“Getty Center in Los Angeles”
Richard Meier
American
Abstract architecture
(Features a cactus garden)
(Jumbled white boxes)
(Found between the Santa Monica Mountains)
(Circular edge maze designed by Robert Irwin
(includes a Research Institute, Conservation Institute, and the offices of the wealthiest art-related trust in the world)
(Aristide Maillol’s “Air” leans leading up to here)
“The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century”
Émile Mâle
French
Art historian
Gothic movement meaning “in the manner of a silversmith” found in Spain, show in this facade of the University of Salamanca
Plateresque Gothic
“Tomb of the Saint Juan de Ortega in the church of the convent of Santa Dorotea, Burgos”
Type of Gothic architecture, also known as ‘Portuguese late Gothic’ incorporating maritime themes, shown in this Tower of Belém in Lisbon
(1490-1520)
Manueline Gothic
“Exterior of the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon”
Style of Gothic architecture found in France from 1350 to early 16th century, utilized flame-like tracery, as demonstrated by facade of Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes
Flamboyant Gothic
“Façade of the Church of the Trinity, Vendôme”
Type of Gothic architecture that moved away from High Gothic, and focused on two dimensional surfaces, as shown in the Cologne Cathedral in Germany
Rayonnant Gothic
“Rose window fron Notre-Dame de Paris”
“Salisbury Cathedral”
Bishop Richard Poore and Elias of Dereham
British
Early English Gothic
Major restoration to Notre Dame Cathedral
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
French
Gothic Revival
(Eugene led the Gothic Revival movement in France)
“Absolute World”
“The Marilyn Monroe Towers”
Ma Yansong
Chinese
Modern architecture
(features an elliptical floor plan rotated through 180 degrees as it ascends)
(home of the MAD Architecture firm)
“Scotia Plaza in Toronto”
WZMH Architecture
Canadian
Corporate architecture
(brown skyscraper with a parallelogram-shaped plan has v-shaped recessions cut into its upper levels)
“Centre Block Parliament Building in Ottawa”
John A. Pearson
Canadian
Gothic Revival
(heraldry-covered octagonal coffers perforate the ceiling of the Senate chambers whose walls display murals of World War I)
(Topped with the Peace Tower clock tower)
(Also home to Confederation Hall and Hall of Honours)
“CN Tower in Toronto”
WZMH Architecture and John Andrews
Canadian
Tall
(viewing center known as ‘Space Deck’ or ‘SkyPod’)
(Tallest structure in the world from 1976 to 2007)
(Also has the 360 Restaurant)
Frenchman who helped create the roundabout, or the traffic circle, first shown in 1907
Eugene Henard (1849-1923)
French
City planning
(Henard proposed that at the end of streets connecting the Paris Opera House, golden columns dedicated to Victor Hugo and Louis Pasteur be built)
“Paris Opera”
Charles Garnier
French
Historicist architecture
(also called Garnier Palace)
(Home of the six-ton chandelier the Phantom of the Opera uses in Gaston Leroux’s book)
(Marc Chagall painted ceiling, as found in another flash card)
(Aime Millet’s statue “Apollo, Poetry, and Music” sits atop, where Apollo holds a golden lyre)
(Green copper roof)
“Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin”
Richard Gluckman
American
Museum Art
(Only the museum part. The building is actually the Deutsche Bank)
“Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas”
“The Jewel Box”
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch
Deconstructivism
(Actually in the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino)
(closed on 2008)
“Guggenheim Guadalajara”
Enrique Norten
Mexican
Modern Architecture
(never built)
(would have been 24-stories, and would have been earthquake proof)
“Winning design for Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum”
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi-British
Futuristic
(winning design, but scrapped for another Guggenheim in Helsinki)
“Losing design for Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum”
Daniel Libeskind
American
Postmodernism architecture
(Lost, because museum scrappped for Helsinki museum)
“Guggenheim Abu Dhabi”
Frank Gehry
Canadian-American
Contempary architecture
(will be open in 2017)
(blocks and cylinders)
“Yale Art and Architecture Building”
Paul Rudolph
American
Brutalist
(37 interlocking levels)
“Harkness Tower at Yale”
James Gamble Rogers
American
University architecture
(Apparently, various architects have said they’d live in the tower, to avoid looking at it)
“Sterling Memorial Library”
James Gamble Rogers
American
University architecture
(Rogers splashed acid on walls to make them look older)
“Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale”
Gordon Bunshaft
American
Modern architecture
(light passes through marble “windows”)
“Morse College at Yale”
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American
Modern architecture
(residential college)
(Eero also designed Stiles College at Yale)
“Garden Cities of To-morrow” (1902)
Ebenezer Howard
British
Urban planning
(intended to relieve overcrowding by moving people into planned cities in the countryside)
(consisted of a circle of six wedges that each included a cultural core, crystal palace, grand avenue, central park, and factories on the outskirts)
(features a diagram where three magnets show where “THE PEOPLE” will go: town, country, or town-country)
“Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang”
“105 Building”
Baikdoosan Architects & Engineers
North Korean
Big architecture
(With 105, more floords than any other building in the world)
(eight-floor rotating cone)
(three pyramid shape)
“Juche Tower in Pyongyang”
Kim Jong-Il, according to “reports”
North Korean
Memorial architecture
(dedicated to Kim Il-Sung on his 70th)
(560 feet, and contains 25,550 blocks, one for every day of the Eternal President’s life)
(in front, a statue of three men, holding a hammer, sickle, and writing brush)
“Felix Nussbaum Haus in Germany”
Daniel Libeskind
Polish-American
Deconstructivism architecture
(three cubic volumes, one wood, one concrete, one steel)
“Michael Lee-Chin Crystal extension of the Royal Ontario Museum”
Daniel Libeskind
Polish-American
Deconstruvisim architecture
“The Bowman and the Spearman in Grant Park”
“Indians”
Ivan Meštrović
Croatian
Scultpor
(Serve as gatemen for Grant Park at Congress Plaza)
“Doge’s Palace in Venice”
Filippo Calendario
Venetian
Architecture
(Filippo died from treason, and was hung by the Doge)
(Home of Piombi “The Leads” Prison, which was a prison on top that had large lead slabs with sun, and was connected to the New Prison via Bridge of Sighs)
(Features the Giants’ Staircase that features Mars and Neptune)
(Bartolomeo Bon sculpted the four cardinal virtues and a man with a funny hat kneeling in front of a winged lion above the Porta della Carta)
“Stud Farm and House for Folke Egerstrom”
Luis Barragan
Mexican
Modern architecture
(sandwiched a waterfall between two thin orange walls)
“Satellite City Towers”
Luis Barragan and Mathias Goeritz
Mexican
Modernist architecture
(five tall triangular prisms painted in primary colors and white)
(in Naucalpan, Mexico)
“Salk Institute in La Jolla, California”
Louis Kahn
American
Modern architecture
(Spaces between buildings was idea from Luis Barragan)
“Pedragal Gardens in Mexico City”
Luis Barragan and Max Cetto
Mexican
Modernist
“Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies”
Reyner Banham
English
Architectural critic
Architectural style, exemplified by Grand Central Station, that is characterized by ostenatious brackets, oversized sculptural details, elaborate cornices, and flat roof
Beaux-Arts architecture
(Taught namesake Parisian art school)
“Boston Public Library, McKim Building”
Charles McKim
American
Beaux-Arts
(1895, early example of B-A)
(Contains the Bates Hall, a reading room modeled on a basilica with a majestic double-coffered canopy bounded by a half-dome on each end)
Term referring to designing that communicates its identity or purpose. Shown below, as Claude Nicolas Ledoux designed this brothel as the shape of a penis
“Speaking Architecture” or “Architecture Parlante”
