Final Slides Flashcards
(126 cards)
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German Pavilion
Albert Speer (1937)
Paris World Fair
- Monument to German pride and achievement
- Crowned with an eagle and a swastika
- Opposite the Soviet Pavilion
2
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Soviet Pavilion
Boris Iofan (1937)
Paris World Fair
- Topped by statue of a male worker and peasant woman holding a hammer and a sickle
- Symbolize the union of workers and peasants
- Opposite the German pavilion
3
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Cathedral of Light at Zepplinfeld
Albert Speer (1934)
Nuremberg
- Site of Nuremberg rallies
- Colonnade of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights
4
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Plan for the reconstruction of Berlin
Albert Speer (1937)
Berlin
- Majority of the works were never fully realized
- Triumphal arch
- Highways and transportation networks
5
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Volkshalle
Albert Speer (1937)
Berlin
- Never realized
6
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Chrsyler Tank Arsenal
Albert Kahn (1941)
Warren, Michigan
- Rejected mandated policy on windowless factories
- Lit 24/7 by fluorescent tubes
- Steel and laminated wood skeleton
- Hermetically sealed with light cladding
- Birth of “big box” structure
- Appropriated corporate architecture for war facilities
7
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Ford Motor Bomber Factory, Office Organizational Diagram
Albert Kahn (1942)
Willow Run, Michigan
- Construction accelerated by Pearl Harbour attack
- Housed manufaction of B-24 Liberator bomber
- Organized like a Taylorized assembly line
- “producer of production lines”
8
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Ford Motor Bomber Factory, Interior
Albert Kahn (1942)
Willow Run, Michigan
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U.S. War Department aka Pentagon
George Bergstorm (1941-43)
Washington DC, USA
- Built in 11 months
- Repetition of homogenous concrete components
- 6 million square feet (largest office building in the world)
- 26km of corridors
- 48km of new roads
- 10000 parking spaces
- Housed 32000 army workers
10
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German and Japanese villages at the Dugway Proving Ground
Eric Mendelsohn et ak. (1943)
Utah
- Architectural realism aided testing of Napalm bombs
- Typical German houses built of wood and stone
- Replicas of Japanese dwellings
11
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Manhattan Project, K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Building for isotope separation
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1944-45)
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- Area houses 47000 inhabitants
- Development of atomic bomb
12
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Dymaxion House
Buckminster Fuller (1945)
- Portable housing
- Assembled on site
- Factory manufactory kits
- Reuse of military assembly lines
- Steel cables in tension around a centural mast
13
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Hansavertiel
IBA (1957)
Berlin
- Model neighbourhood
- Urban “free plan” of the “free world”
- Promoted slogan of the Atlantic Alliance
- Architects included Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer
- Dense and informal urban landscape
- Contrasted axial structure of Stalinallee
14
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Hansavertiel Apartment Building
Alvar Aalto (1955-57)
Berlin
15
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Hansavertiel Apartment Building, Plan
Alvar Aalto (1955-57)
Berlin
16
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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Scharoun (1956-63)
Berlin
- First component of the Kulturforum
- Return city to cultural preeminence
- Situated close to Berlin Wall
- Monumentality
- Recycles expressionist ideals
17
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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Interior
Hans Scharoun (1956-63)
Berlin
- Suspended foyers and boxes
- Contrasts cavernous space of the auditorium
- Revolutionized the conception of music venues
18
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Palast der Republik
Heinz Graffunder and Karl-Ernst Swora
East Berlin (1973-76)
- Different kind of monumentality
- Demolished and rejected as a symbol of totalitarian communism
19
Q
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Universal Pictures
Ely Jacques Kahn (1947)
New York
- Spandrel design
- Horizontal structural elements are emphasized
20
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Lever House
Skidmore, Owings & Merril (1951-52)
New York
- Designers: Gordan Bunshaft & Natalie De Blois
- Nocturnal architecture
- Curtain wall hung from cantilevered slab
- Not load-bearing
- Open plaza with garden
- Removed from the street front
21
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Lever House, Slab/Open Office Plan
Skidmore, Owings & Merril (1951-52)
New York
- Gendering of spaces
- Office = male businessmen
- Open space = female secretaries
22
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Lever House, Plaza view
Skidmore, Owings & Merril (1951-52)
New York
23
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Lever House, Curtain wall detail
Skidmore, Owings & Merril (1951-52)
New York
- Sheath design
- No structural members are expressed
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Seagram Tower
Mies van der Rohe (1958)
New York
- Detached from street front
- Raised on pilotis
- Curtain wall
- Nocturnal architecture
25
**Seagram Tower**, *Façade detail*
Mies van der Rohe (1958)
New York
* Dominant verticality
* Mullion design
* Vertical structural elements are emphasizd
26
**Seagram Tower**, *Plaza*
Mies van der Rohe (1958)
New York
* Extends sidewalk into plaza
* Synthesis of public space
27
**General Panel Corporation Prefabricated Home**
Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann (1948)
28
**Farnsworth House**
Mies van der Rohe (1946-51)
Plano, Illinois
* Glass creates synthesis between architecture and nature
* In close proximity to a black maple tree
* Manufactured steel and plates glass
* Parallel to the flow of the river
29
**Farnsworth House**, *Plan*
Mies van der Rohe (1946-51)
Plano, Illinois
30
**Case Study House 8 "Eames House"**
Charles and Ray Eames (1949)
Santa Monica
* Box formed of steel and glass
* Influenced by De Stijl movement
* Sliding walls create interior sense of openness
31
**Levittown**
Burt Glinn (1957)
New York
* Built for returning veterans
* Production in manner of an assembly line
* Originally for caucasian race
32
**Original Cape Cod Model**
Levitt and Sons (1948)
33
**"Ranch" Model**
Levitt and Sons (1949)
34
**Cranbrook School**
Eliel Saarinen (1925)
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
35
**Jefferson National Expansion Memorial**
Eero Saarinen (1947/1965)
St Louis, Missouri
* Competition 1947, Completed 1965
* Steel caternary arch
* Synthesis of Gothic motif and modern technology
* Backdrop to the Old Courthouse (Dred Scott case)
* Tallest arch and monument
36
**Miller House**
Eero Saarinen (with Kevin Roche) (1953-57)
Columbus, Indiana
* 9 square plan
* Conversation pit
* Assymetry = loose and dynamic experience
* Overlaid with symmetrical order
37
**Miller House**, *Column detail*
Eero Saarinen (with Kevin Roche) (1953-57)
Columbus, Indiana
* Columns pay tribute to Barcelona Pavilion
38
**Miller House**, *Plan*
Eero Saarinen (with Kevin Roche) (1953-57)
Columbus, Indiana
* 9 square plan
* Overlaid symmetry
39
**Kresge Auditorium and Kresge Chapel**
Eero Saarinen (1950-55)
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Auditorium looking forward
* Thin shell structure
* Highlights new technology
* Chapel looking backwards
* Enclosed by a moat
40
**Kresge Chapel**, *Interior*
Eero Saarinen (1950-55)
MIT, Cambridge, Massachussetts
41
**Kresge Chapel**, *Plan*
Eero Saarinen (1950-55)
MIT, Cambridge, Massachussetts
42
**Morse and Stiles Colleges**
Eero Saarinen (1958-62)
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
* Cladding = "masonry with masons"
43
**Bath House**
Louis Kahn (1954-55)
Ewing Township, New Jersey
* Symmetrical
* Cross plan
* Crude construction in exposed concrete bricks
* Sacred plan of church appropriated to bath house
44
**Yale University Art Gallery**
Louis Kahn (1951-54)
New Haven, Connecticut
* Curtain wall
* Dominant horizonality
45
**Yale University Art Gallery**
Louis Kahn (1951-54)
New Haven, Connecticut
* Drum hides stairwell
* Triangular coffered ceiling
46
**Yale Center for British Art**
Louis Kahn (1969-74)
New Haven, Connecticut
* Creates a whole street front
* Void corner
* Urban building
47
**Yale University for British Art**
Louis Kahn (1969-74)
New Haven, Connecticut
* Elegy to the room/compartment
* Opposes modernist open plan
* "Architecture comes from making a room"
48
**Plan Obus**
Le Corbusier (1931-32)
Algiers
49
**Ministry of Health and Education**
Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Eduardo Affonso Reidy
Rio (1937-42)
50
**Ministry of Health and Education**, *Detail*
Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Eduardo Affonso Reidy
Rio (1937-42)
* Spandrel design
* Horizonal structural elements are emphasized
* Curtain wall
51
**Museum of Modern Art**
Eduardo Affonso Reidy (1953-68)
Rio de Janeiro
52
**Pedregulho Housing Complex**
Eduardo Affonso Reidy (1948-49)
Rio de Janeiro
53
**Plan for Brasilia**
Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer (1956-60)
* Constructed as an entirely new city
54
**Plaza of the Three Powers**
Oscar Niemeyer (1960)
Brasilia
* Artistic freedom given by plaza
* Form counters function to reject tradition
* Unrestricted architect
55
**Superblocks**
Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer (1960)
Brasilia
56
**Planalto Palace**
Oscar Niemeyer (1960)
Brasilia
57
**Itamarati Palace**
Oscar Niemeyer (1960)
Brasilia
58
**Itamarati Palace**
Oscar Niemeyer (1960)
Brasilia
59
**Itamarati Palace**
Oscar Niemeyer (1960)
Brasilia
60
**Casa de Vidro (Glass House)**
Lina Bo Bardi (1951)
Sao Paulo
* Combination of transparency and opacity
* Tree = proximity to nature
* Away from the city
61
**Casa de Vidro (Glass House)**
Lina Bo Bardi (1951)
Sao Paulo
62
**SESC-Pompela Leisure Factory**
Lina Bo Bardi (with André Vainer and Marcelo Ferraz) (1977-86)
Sao Paulo
63
**SESC-Pompeia Leisure Factory**
Lina Bo Bardi (with André Vainer and Marcelo Ferraz) (1977-86)
Sao Paulo
64
**Unité d'Habitation**
Le Corbusier (1947-52)
Marseille, France
* Large scale housing
* Self-contained complex (houses, shops etc.)
* Béton brut (Raw concrete)
* Pilotis
65
**Unité d'Habitation**, *Detail*
Le Corbusier (1947-52)
Marseille, France
66
**Unité d'Habitation**, *Typical Unit*
Le Corbusier (1947-52)
Marseille, France
67
**Unité d'Habitation**, *Roof view*
Le Corbusier (1947-52)
Marseille, France
68
**Notre Dame du Haut**
Le Corbusier (1950-54)
Ronchamp
69
**Notre Dame du Haut**, *Interior*
Le Corbusier (1950-54)
Ronchamp
70
**Golden Lane Housing**
Alison and Peter Smithson (1952)
London
* Streets suspended in the air
* Focus on pedestrian community in response to ubiquity of cars
* The building is designed as part of a larger network
* Response to need for post-war housing
* Arranged in synaptic pattern
* Flexible to the typography
*
71
**Derek Sugden House**
Alison and Peter Smithson (1955-56)
Watford, England
* Aysmmetric roof
* Asymmetric arrangement of windows
72
**Derek Sugden House**, *Interior*
Alison and Peter Smithson (1955-56)
Watford, England
* Levels denote function of space
* Maintains open plan
* Designed interior furnishings
* Free-standing fire[lace
73
**Hunstanton Secondary Modern School**
Alison and Peter Smithson (1954)
England
74
**Hunstanton Secondary Modern School**
Alison and Peter Smithson (1954)
England
75
**Robin Hood Gardens**, *Axonometric drawing*
Alison and Peter Smithson (1966-72)
London, England
* Social housing
* Broad aerial walkways
* Made of precast concrete slabs
* Brutalist architectue
* Central green space
76
**Robin Hood Gardens**
Alison and Peter Smithson (1966-72)
London, England
77
**Orphanage School**
Aldo van Eyck (1957-60)
Amsterdam
* Synthesis of interior and exterior spaces
* Mirrors embedded in concrete to give a sparkle
78
**Orphanage School**, *Roof Detail*
Aldo van Eyck (1957-60)
Amsterdam
79
**Orphanage School**, *Plan*
Aldo van Eyck (1957-60)
Amsterdam
80
**Festival Plaza and Master Plan**
Kenzo Tange (1970)
Osaka 70 World Exhibition, Japan
* Space frame roof
* Theme was "Progress and harmony for mankind"
81
**Festival Plaza and Master Plan**
Kenzo Tange (1970)
Osaka 70 World Exhibition, Japan
82
**Fuji Pavilion**
(1970)
Osaka
83
**Swiss Pavilion**
(1970)
Osaka
84
**USSR Pavilion**
(1970)
Osaka
85
**Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum**
Kenzo Tange (1952)
Hiroshima, Japan
86
**American Pavilion**
Buckminster Fuller (1967)
Expo 67, Montreal, Canada
87
**London Zoo Aviary**
Cedric Price, Frank Newby and Barry Snowdon (1960-65)
Regent's Park, London
88
**Fun Palace**
Cedric Price and Joan Littlewood (with Frank Newby) (1960-66)
* Functions revealed to exterior
89
**Kagawa Prefectural Government Office**
Kenzo Tange (1958)
Kagawa
90
**Tokyo Bay Plan**
Kenzo Tange (1960)
Tokyo
91
**Floating City**
Kiyonori Kikutake (1959)
92
**Yamanashi Communications Center**
Kenzo Tange (1966)
Kofu-shi, Japan
93
**Knights of Columbus**
Roche + Dinkeloo (1966-69)
New Haven, USA
94
**Shizuoka Newspaper Company**
Kenzo Tange (1968)
Shizuoka, Japan
95
**Nagakin Capsule Tower**
Kisho Kurokawa (1972)
Tokyo, Japan
96
**Nagakin Capsule Tower**, *Individual Unit*
Kisho Kurokawa (1972)
Tokyo, Japan
97
**Vanna Venturi House**
Robert Venturi (1964)
Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
* Ornamental arch
* Assymetric façade
98
**Vanna Venturi House**, *Plan*
Charles Venturi (1964)
Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
* Functions are not separate but couple
* Stairs = window sill = fireplace
* Rejection of modernist separation of space
* Tension between elements
* Niches reveal complexity
99
**Vanna Venturi House**, *Interior*
Charles Venturi (1964)
Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
100
**Fire Station 4**
Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown (1966)
Columbus, Indiana
101
**Dixwell Fire Station**
Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown (1974)
New Haven, Connecticut
102
**Guild House**
Robert Venturi (1960-63)
Philadelphia, PA
* Graphics and signage coalesce on façade
103
**Orinda House**
Charles Moore (1965)
California
104
**Orinda House**, *Plan*
Charles Moore (1965)
California
105
**Moonraker Recreation Center**
Charles Moore (1966)
Sea Ranch, Sanoma County, CA
* Landscape architect: Lawrence Halprin
* Graphic designer: Barbara Stauffacher Salomon
* Collaboration of graphic designer and landscape architect
106
**Sea Ranch**
Charles Moore, Joseph Esherick, William Turnbull, et. al.
Sanoma County, CA
* Landscape architect: Lawrence Halprin
107
**Moore House**
Charles Moore (1966)
New Haven, CT
108
**Moore House**, *Interior*
Charles Moore (1966)
New Haven, CT
109
**San Cataldo Cemetery**
Aldo Rossi (1971-84)
Modena
110
**Elementary School**, *Plan*
Aldo Rossi (1972-74)
Fagnano Olona, Italy
111
**Elementary School**
Aldo Rossi (1972-74)
Fagnano Olona, Italy
112
**Medical Faculty Housing**
Lucien Kroll (1976)
Louvain, Belgium
113
**Piazza d'Italia**
Charles Moore (1975-78)
New Orleans
114
**Seaside Florida**
Elizabeth and Duany Platter-Zyberk (1979-)
Florida
* New urbanism
* Develop gated communities
* Reference to traditional domestic architecture
* Sterilization of prior innovation
115
**New Colleges**
Robert A. M. Stern Architects (2014-17)
Yale University, New Haven, CT
116
**Leca Swimming Pools**
Alvaro Siza (1966)
Leca, Portugal
* Sensitivity to the landscape
117
**Serralves Museum**
Alvaro Siza (1991-99)
Porto, Portugal
118
**Serralves Museum**
Alvaro Siza (1991-99)
Porto, Portugal
119
**Therme Vals**
Peter Zumptor (1997)
Vals, Switzerland
* Sensitivity to the landscape
120
**Glass Pavilion**
SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) (2007)
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
* Heightened materiality
* Innovative liquid quality
* Lightness
* Curtain wall
121
**Grace Farms**
SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) (2016)
New Canaan, CT
122
**Grace Farms**
SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) (2016)
New Canaan, CT
123
**Tama Art University Library**
Toyo Ito (2002)
Hachioji/Tokyo, Japan
124
**Tama Art University Library**, *Interior*
Toyo Ito (2002)
Hachioji/Tokyo, Japan
125
**CCTV (Central China Television)**
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (with Ove Arup and Partners) (2002-12)
Beijing, China
* Skyscraper transformed into Mobius strip
126
**Pompidou Center**
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers (with Ove Arup and Partners)
Paris (1970-77)
* New kind of museum
* Contemporary art (no longer for classical admiration)
* Museum for the people
* Exterior escalator and viewing platform emphasizes museum as public space
