SRA 215 Utopian Ideals week by week

WEEK TEN
TUTORIAL ELEVEN WEEK 10: WEDNESDAY 21 MAY

CLASS PRESENTATION AND ESSAY TOPICS: GROUP 7

GROUP 7 CLASS PRESENTATION TOPIC: Brutalism and High Tech Essay 7.1 What is meant by Brutalism in architecture? What impact did bton brut have on the concepts, principles and design expression of modern architecture? Critically consider Le Corbusiers Maison Jaoul and Stirling and Gowans Ham Common Flats in your analysis. Essay 7.2 Peter Buchanan suggests that technology offers many more sympathetic alternatives if it is seen as a means and not an end in itself. In no more than three examples, explore the concepts, principles and design ideas raised by the experimental work of Fuller. Essay 7.3 High Tech what does this late phase of modernism have to offer architecture? Explore the concepts, principles and design ideas raised by the experimental work of Archigram. Essay 7.4 High Tech is nothing less than modern architectures most extreme attempt to transcend history, to escape from culture and all its irrational rituals ! Critically explore this claim in Piano and Rogers Centre Pompidou and Foster Associates Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts. Essay 7.5 Peter Buchanan states that Despite the limitations of High Tech it produced some of the most exciting buildings ! and through their research tools [High Tech architects] extended the boundaries of the possible. Discuss with close reference to John Andrews Intelsat Headquarters. Essay 7.6 Review McDonough and Braungarts ideas as presented in the documentary Waste = FOOD. What do McDonough and Braungart mean when they state that in the19thC prefabrication was critical to progress, in the 21stC disassembly is critical to survival on planet earth? Do you agree/ disagree? Provide evidence to support your case. WEEK 10 JOURNAL EXERCISES (bring your response to class on Wednesday 21 May): Write a short (200 word) review of the documentary film Waste=FOOD. What are the most powerful message(s) architects can learn from McDonough and Braungarts ideas?

SRA 215 Week 10 Lecture Brutalism and High Tech Refer to readings: Banham, Buchanan, Pawley on CloudDeakin References: Leland Roth; Kenneth Frampton Refer to relevant images on CloudDeakin SRA 215 architects and artists and their works Brutalism Peter and Alison Smithson, Hunstanton Secondary School, 1949-54 Le Corbusier Unite dHabitation Marseilles, France, 1946-52 Ste Marie de la Tourette, France, 1957-60 Maisons Jaoul, 1955 Stirling and Gowan Ham Common Flats, 1955-58 John Andrews Scarborough College, Toronto, 1963-64 High Tech Buckminster Fuller Expo 1967, Montreal Ontario, US Pavilion Geodesic Dome, Apollo Program exhibit Geodesic Dome House, Tiburon, California Chapel, S Illinois University, Carbondale Walking city in New York, 1964 Metamorphosis of and English Town

Archigram Ron Herron Peter Cook Frei Otto

Recall: Decimus Burton Palm House Kew (1844) and Joseph Paxtons Crystal Palace 1851 Foster Associates Piano and Rogers John Andrews Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 1977 Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 1971 77 Intelsat Headquarters, Washington DC, 1980-88

McDonough and Braungart, Cradle to Cradle McDonough and Braungart, Waste = FOOD