Architecture in English II

Final Exam review Fall 2013

Claude N. Ledoux Saltworks at Chaux 1. Architectural language expressed 2. Visionary plan 3. French Neoclassical

The Salt Works at Chaux: Arc - en Senans, France

Date: 1775 - 79 Architect: Claude

Nicholas LeDoux

The Salt Works at Chaux: Arc - en Senans, France

Date: 1775 - 79 Architect: Claude

Nicholas LeDoux

The Salt Works at Chaux: Arc - en Senans, France

Date: 1775 - 79 Architect: Claude

Nicholas LeDoux

Friedrich Schinkel Altes Museum 1. Neoclassical Building 2. Creative relationship to the public space 3. Entry forces the user to move around the entry court and face the park

Altes Museum - Berlin, Germany

Date: 1824 Architect: Fredrick

Shinkel

Altes Museum - Berlin, Germany

Date: 1824 Architect: Fredrick

Shinkel

Altes Museum - Berlin, Germany

Date: 1824 Architect: Fredrick

Shinkel

Contamin and Dutert Gallery of Machines 1. Use of a 3 pinned arch 2. Massive scale 3. Highlighted engineering for expression of architecture 4. The building is a machine 5. Used for the French exposition of 1889

Galerie des Machines Paris, France

Date: 1889 AD Architect: Charles Dutert and Victor Contamin

Galerie des Machines Paris, France

Date: 1889 AD Architect: Charles Dutert and Victor Contamin

Galerie des Machines Paris, France

Date: 1889 AD Architect: Charles Dutert and Victor Contamin

Otto Wagner Postal Savings Bank 1. Tectonic expression of materials 2. Jugenstihl - The Young Style 3. Ended the Neoclassical style 4. New materials must reect the new times

Postparkasse (Postal Savings Bank) - Vienna

Date: 1904 - 05 AD Architect: Otto Wagner

Postparkasse (Postal Savings Bank) - Vienna

Date: 1904 - 05 AD Architect: Otto Wagner

Postparkasse (Postal Savings Bank) - Vienna

Date: 1904 - 05 AD Architect: Otto Wagner

Adolph Loos Loos House 1. No ornament - Ornament is a crime 2. Flatness of the facade 3. Windows are just holes in the wall 4. Rejection of Art Nouveaux

Loos House - Vienna

Date: 1909 - 10 AD Architect: Adolf Loos

Loos House - Vienna

Date: 1909 - 10 AD Architect: Adolf Loos

Loos House - Vienna

Date: 1909 - 10 AD Architect: Adolf Loos

Louis Sullivan Wainwright Building 1. Isolated pier foundation 2. Curtain wall 3. C shape in plan to let light into the interior 4. Expression of Form Follows Function 5. Expression of a tall building

Wainwright Building - St. Louis, Missouri

Date: 1891 AD Architect: Louis

Sullivan ( Adler and Sullivan)

The Guaranty Building- Buffalo, New York

Date: 1894 - 96 AD Architect: Louis

Sullivan ( Adler and Sullivan)

Wainwright Building - St. Louis, Missouri

Date: 1891 AD Architect: Louis

Sullivan ( Adler and Sullivan)

Daniel Burnham Monadnock Building 1. Tallest load bearing brick building 2. Use of Elevators 3. 2 meter thick walls at ground oor 4. Poor light conditions for interior 5. Shows the limitations of masonry construction

Monadnock Building - Chicago, Illinois

Date: 1889 -91 AD Architect: Daniel

Burnham

Monadnock Building - Chicago, Illinois

Date: 1889 -91 AD Architect: Daniel

Burnham

Monadnock Building - Chicago, Illinois

Date: 1889 -91 AD Architect: Daniel

Burnham

Gerritt Reitveld Schroeder House 1. Shifting plans in space 2. Dissolved corner windows 3. Sliding walls to change the space 4. 3 dimensional representation of Mondrians art

Schroeder House - Rotterdam , Holland

Date: 1924 Architect - Gerritt Reitveld

Schroeder House - Rotterdam , Holland

Date: 1924 Architect - Gerritt Reitveld

Schroeder House - Rotterdam , Holland

Date: 1924 Architect - Gerritt Reitveld

Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House 1. Cantilevered roofs 2. Organic architecture 3. Inuences the European modernists (Meis, Gropius, Reitveld, etc.) 4. Use of the hearth as the center of the house 5. Prairie style house

Robie House - Oak Park, Illinois

Date: 1906 -10 AD Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Robie House - Oak Park, Illinois

Date: 1906 -10 AD Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Robie House - Oak Park, Illinois

Date: 1906 -10 AD Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Le Corbusier Villa Savoye 1. Five points of architecture (pilotis, strip windows, roof gardens, open oor plan, facade separate from the mass of building) 2. Machine for living 3. Separated from the site

Villa Savoye - Poissy, France

Date: 1929 Architect: Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye - Poissy, France

Date: 1929 Architect: Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye - Poissy, France

Date: 1929 Architect: Le Corbusier

Walter Gropius The Bauhaus 1. International Style 2. Pinwheel Plan 3. Complete school of design (architecture, textile, household goods, etc) 4. Use of concrete, steel and glass

Bauhaus - Dessau, Germany

Date: 1925 - 26 Architect: Walter Gropius

Bauhaus - Dessau, Germany

Date: 1925 - 26 Architect: Walter Gropius

Bauhaus - Dessau, Germany

Date: 1925 - 26 Architect: Walter Gropius

Mies van der Rohe Seagrams Building 1. International Style 2. Use of curtain wall 3. Bronze I-beams attached to windows 4. Building set back from street to create a public plaza

Seagrams Building - New York, New York

Date: 1954 - 58 Architect: Mies van der Rohe

Seagrams Building - New York, New York

Date: 1954 - 58 Architect: Mies van der Rohe

Seagrams Building - New York, New York

Date: 1954 - 58 Architect: Mies van der Rohe

Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater 1. Wrights response to International Style 2. Integrates the site into the building 3. Cantilevered and shifting spatial planes 4. Designed in 4 hours

Falling Water - Bear Run, Pennsylvania

Date: 1934 ~ Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Falling Water - Bear Run, Pennsylvania

Date: 1934 ~ Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Falling Water - Bear Run, Pennsylvania

Date: 1934 ~ Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Louis Kahn Exeter Library 1. Classical Modernism 2. Pure Geometries Bilateral Symmetry 3. Doughnut Concept 4. Use of Natural Light

Phillips Exeter Academy Library - Exeter, New Hampshire

Date: 1967 -72 Architect: Louis Kahn

Phillips Exeter Academy Library - Exeter, New Hampshire

Date: 1967 -72 Architect: Louis Kahn

Phillips Exeter Academy Library - Exeter, New Hampshire

Date: 1967 -72 Architect: Louis Kahn

Peter Zumthor Thermal Baths 1. Phenomenological Architecture 2. Use of Materials to create individual experience 3. Minimalist 4. Modern Vernacular 5. Simplicity of Form

Thermal Baths - Basel, Switzerland

Date: 1990 -96 Architect: Peter Zumthor

Thermal Baths - Basel, Switzerland

Date: 1990 -96 Architect: Peter Zumthor

Thermal Baths - Basel, Switzerland

Date: 1990 -96 Architect: Peter Zumthor