Final Slides Flashcards
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
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
Cathedral of Light at Zepplinfeld
Albert Speer (1934)
Nuremberg
- Site of Nuremberg rallies
- Colonnade of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights
Plan for the reconstruction of Berlin
Albert Speer (1937)
Berlin
- Majority of the works were never fully realized
- Triumphal arch
- Highways and transportation networks
Volkshalle
Albert Speer (1937)
Berlin
- Never realized
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
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”
Ford Motor Bomber Factory, Interior
Albert Kahn (1942)
Willow Run, Michigan
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
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
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
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
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
Hansavertiel Apartment Building
Alvar Aalto (1955-57)
Berlin
Hansavertiel Apartment Building, Plan
Alvar Aalto (1955-57)
Berlin
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
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
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
Universal Pictures
Ely Jacques Kahn (1947)
New York
- Spandrel design
- Horizontal structural elements are emphasized
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
Lever House, Slab/Open Office Plan
Skidmore, Owings & Merril (1951-52)
New York
- Gendering of spaces
- Office = male businessmen
- Open space = female secretaries
Lever House, Plaza view
Skidmore, Owings & Merril (1951-52)
New York
Lever House, Curtain wall detail
Skidmore, Owings & Merril (1951-52)
New York
- Sheath design
- No structural members are expressed
Seagram Tower
Mies van der Rohe (1958)
New York
- Detached from street front
- Raised on pilotis
- Curtain wall
- Nocturnal architecture
Seagram Tower, Façade detail
Mies van der Rohe (1958)
New York
- Dominant verticality
- Mullion design
- Vertical structural elements are emphasizd
Seagram Tower, Plaza
Mies van der Rohe (1958)
New York
- Extends sidewalk into plaza
- Synthesis of public space
General Panel Corporation Prefabricated Home
Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann (1948)
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
Farnsworth House, Plan
Mies van der Rohe (1946-51)
Plano, Illinois
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
Levittown
Burt Glinn (1957)
New York
- Built for returning veterans
- Production in manner of an assembly line
- Originally for caucasian race
Original Cape Cod Model
Levitt and Sons (1948)
“Ranch” Model
Levitt and Sons (1949)
Cranbrook School
Eliel Saarinen (1925)
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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
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
Miller House, Column detail
Eero Saarinen (with Kevin Roche) (1953-57)
Columbus, Indiana
- Columns pay tribute to Barcelona Pavilion
Miller House, Plan
Eero Saarinen (with Kevin Roche) (1953-57)
Columbus, Indiana
- 9 square plan
- Overlaid symmetry
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
Kresge Chapel, Interior
Eero Saarinen (1950-55)
MIT, Cambridge, Massachussetts
Kresge Chapel, Plan
Eero Saarinen (1950-55)
MIT, Cambridge, Massachussetts
Morse and Stiles Colleges
Eero Saarinen (1958-62)
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Cladding = “masonry with masons”
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
Yale University Art Gallery
Louis Kahn (1951-54)
New Haven, Connecticut
- Curtain wall
- Dominant horizonality
Yale University Art Gallery
Louis Kahn (1951-54)
New Haven, Connecticut
- Drum hides stairwell
- Triangular coffered ceiling
Yale Center for British Art
Louis Kahn (1969-74)
New Haven, Connecticut
- Creates a whole street front
- Void corner
- Urban building
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”
Plan Obus
Le Corbusier (1931-32)
Algiers
Ministry of Health and Education
Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Eduardo Affonso Reidy
Rio (1937-42)
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