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Lecture 1 – “Less is More”
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“Less is more”
Mies & Gaudi in BarcelonaLudwig Mies van der Rohe & Antonio Gaudi
Mies
1929 - German Pavilion for the International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - German born architect Demolished in 1930 Rebuilt 1986 Steel frame, glass, and polished stone (onyx, marble, travertine)
The Barcelona Pavilion
“God is in the Details”
Farnsworth House
1950 - Plano, Illinois glass walls, travertine, and steel columns
Seagram Building
Park Ave. in New York 1954 steel frame with curtain
walls, and bronze exterior columns
One Charles Center 1963 - Baltimore City
Crown Hall
IIT- Illinois Institute of Technology
1956 Architectural school The roof suspends
from spanning I-beams
MeanwhileBack to Barcelona1929
Milwaukke Art MuseumSantiago Calatrava , architect
Frank Gehry
Guggenheim Museum, Bilboa, Spain
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angels California
Even on the Simpsons
Frank Lloyd WrightFallingwater, Bear Run, Pa.and “organic architecture”
Centre de Pompidou, Paris 1971 Richard Roger and Renzo Piano
European Court of Human Rights
“This space functions as an invitation to participate in a judicial vision.” Richard Rogers, 2001
Montevetro Luxury Housing, London
“The elevators climbing up this facade provide a play between the vertical and the horizontal. In this way the building offers a sculptural
quality and a strong sense of rticulation.” Richard Rogers
Millennium Dome Greenwich 2000
Louis I. Kahn, Architect
Salk Institute LaJolla, California 1959 -1966
Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas 1967 -1972
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