The document summarizes two hours of a class about modern architecture in America. The first hour focuses on Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, including their work establishing the Bauhaus school in Germany and their buildings in the United States. The second hour covers monumental buildings from the 1950s onward, highlighting works by Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Eero Saarinen, and Buckminster Fuller that explored monumentality through innovative designs.
The document summarizes two hours of a class about modern architecture in America. The first hour focuses on Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, including their work establishing the Bauhaus school in Germany and their buildings in the United States. The second hour covers monumental buildings from the 1950s onward, highlighting works by Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Eero Saarinen, and Buckminster Fuller that explored monumentality through innovative designs.
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The document summarizes two hours of a class about modern architecture in America. The first hour focuses on Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, including their work establishing the Bauhaus school in Germany and their buildings in the United States. The second hour covers monumental buildings from the 1950s onward, highlighting works by Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Eero Saarinen, and Buckminster Fuller that explored monumentality through innovative designs.
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Hour 1 - Gropius & Mies in America Hour 2 – Monumentality
Slide 1 – Title Slide 26 – Title Slide 2 - Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Complex at Slide 27 - Albert Speer, Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Dessau, 1925 1934-7 Slide 3 - Walter Gropius, Fagus Works Factory, Slide 28 - Alvar Aalto, Saynatsalo Town Hall, Alfred an der Leine, Germany, 1911-13; Walter Saynatsalo, Finland, 1949 competition, built 1952 Gropius, Factory for the Werkbund Exhibition, Slide 29 - Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Cologne, 1914 Museum, New York, 1956-7 Slide 4 - Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Complex at Slide 30 - Le Corbusier, Monastery of La Tourette, Dessau, 1925 (faculty houses) near Lyons, 1953-7; Le Corbusier, Chapel of Notre- Slide 5 – Bauhaus curriculum Dame-de-Haut, Ronchamp, 1950-4 Slide 6 – Walter Gropius, Gropius House, Lincoln, Slide 31 - Le Corbusier, Parliament Building, MA, 1938 Chandigarh, 1951-63 Slide 7-8 - Walter Gropius, Graduate Center, Slide 32 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Crown Hall, Harvard University, 1948 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 1950-6; Slide 9 - Benjamin Thompson (TAC), Design Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lake Shore Apartments, Research Headquarters, Cambridge, 1969 Chicago, 1948-51 Slide 10 - The Architects Collaborative, Fiduciary Slide 33 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Trust Building, 175 Federal Street, Boston, 1975 Building, NY, 1954-8; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Slide 11 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, (Gordon Bunshaft, designer), Lever House, NY, Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper competition entry, 1951-2; I. M. Pei, Hancock Tower, Boston, 1969-73; Berlin, 1921; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Project for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (Bruce Graham, a Glass Skyscraper, 1922; Ludwig Mies van der designer), Hancock Center, Chicago, 1968-70 Rohe, Concrete Office Building, project, Berlin, Slide 34 – Kahn Passage 1923; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Project for a Brick Slide 35 - Louis Kahn, Yale University Art Center, Villa, 1923 New Haven, 1951-4 Slide 12 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona Slide 36 - Louis Kahn, Yale University Art Center, Pavilion, Barcelona, 1928 New Haven, 1951-4 (int) Slide 13 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Tugendhat Slide 37-39 - Louis Kahn, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, House, Brno, Czech Republic, 1930 1959-66 Slide 14– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Crown Hall, Slide 40- 41 - Louis Kahn, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 1950-6 Worth, 1967-72 Slide 15 - 17 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Slide 42-43 - Eero Saarinen, TWA Terminal, NY, Farnsworth House, Plano, IL, 1945-51 1956-62 Slide 18 - Philip Johnson, Johnson Residence, Slide 44 - Eero Saarinen, Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Cambridge, 1942 1947 competition, construction 1961 to 1966 Slide 19- 20 - Philip Johnson, Glass House, New Slide 45 - Eero Saarinen, Kresge Chapel, MIT, 1955; Canaan, CT, 1949-50 Eero Saarinen, Kresge Auditorium, MIT, 1950-55 Slide 21 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lake Shore Slide 46 - Buckminster Fuller, Geodesic Dome, Apartments, Chicago, 1948-51 American Pavilion, Montreal, Expo ‘67 Slide 22 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Slide 47 - Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2007 Building, NY, 1954-8 Slide 23 - Skidmore, Owings and Merril (Gordon Bunshaft, designer), Lever House, NY, 1951-2 Slide 24 - I. M. Pei, Hancock Tower, Boston, 1969- 73; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (Bruce Graham, designer), Hancock Center, Chicago, 1968-70