29. Glass Box Flashcards
A switch from the ribbon window to the use of floor to ceiling glazing marked the work in the 1930s of __________________.
Le Corbusier
The Centrosoyuz Headquarters in Moscow was designed by________________.
Le Corbsier
Le Corbusier first used the all-glass wall in what project?
Centrosoyuz Headquarters
List two details Mies used in his American buildings to divorce them from the existing urban fabric.
Pilotis- lifts building off street level
Plazas- pulls away from street lines
What advantage is there in offsetting the location of the core in the plan of a highrise office building?
Better for planning the space around the building, more variety of floor spaces
What detail in the Lever House allows the pedestrian to reconnect with the tower after leaving the sidewalk?
Courtyard created by U-shaped lifted terrace
What was the new architectural material whose price had dropped significantly after the end of WWII, that it quickly was adopted as the exterior material of choice for the next twenty years?
Aluminum
Describe the lateral (wind) load structure of the Sears Building/World Trade Center.
Tube Structure: rigid frame structure of vertical columns, not cross bracing
Describe the problem that “rationalist” International Style designers tried to avoid in the design of a skyscraper and what was the typical solution?
Couldn’t express each column the same, cantilever floor/ends
___________________ was the last and tallest of the International Style glass box skyscrapers.
Chase Manhattan Bank
Why were the Lever House and the Seagram’s Building much more expensive than the face value of their construction?
Didn’t utilize the land
What kept the International Style glass box skyscraper from going no taller than the Chase Manhattan Bank?
Wind bracing structure was too expensive
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space” is a quote by ________________.
Mies
The first post WWII glass box skyscraper in the US was the __________________.
Equitable Savings and Loan
Sketch the typical floor plan of the Inland Steel Building:
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Sketch the corner detail of a typical Mies skyscraper:
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What two major projects were responsible for the large size of SOM by the end of WWII?
VA Hospitals
Manhattan Projects
What skyscraper marked the ultimate retreat from the street and the start of “Plaza-mania?”
Seagram Building
The conceptual design of the UN office tower was the product of ________________.
Le Corbusier
__________ was responsible for the conceptual design of the UN office tower.
Le Corbusier
“I don’t want to be interesting, I want to be good” is a quote ascribed to _________________.
Mies
Describe the difference in how Mies designed spaces in his pre-WW II European buildings and those in his post-WWII American buildings.
Pre- Asymmetrical and free flow of space
Post- Rational and symmetrical
List the three locations for a glass skin in a skyscraper and list a building from class that is an example of each type.
Inside structural frame - Equitable Savings and Loan Bank
In front of structure - UN Headquarters
Behind structure - Inland Steel Building
The difference between SOM’s typical corner detail as represented in the Inland Steel Building and Mies’ typical corner detail as represented in the Seagram’s Building is:
Mies- cantilever the floor half a bay past the last column
SOM- column placed in the corner to create a full bay
Two reasons that explain why Mies cantilevered his roofs/floors beyond the corner columns are:
Continuity of space
Emphasis of the plane
List three differences between Mies design of the Farnsworth House, and Johnson’s design of his Glass House.
Johnson doesn’t cantilever; Mies cantilevers
Johnson has black corners; Mies has white corner
Johnson is on ground; Mies is off ground
List two reasons why the Farnsworth House was an environmental disaster.
Non operable windows (too hot in the summer)
Single paned glass windows (too cold in the winter)
