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Architecture in English II
Final Exam reviewFall 2013
Claude N. Ledoux Saltworks at Chaux
1. Architectural language expressed2. Visionary plan3. French Neoclassical
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
The Salt Works at Chaux: Arc - en Senans, France
Friedrich Schinkel Altes Museum
1. Neoclassical Building2. Creative relationship to the public space3. Entry forces the user to move around the entry court and face the park
Date: 1824 Architect: Fredrick Shinkel
Altes Museum - Berlin, Germany
Date: 1824 Architect: Fredrick Shinkel
Altes Museum - Berlin, Germany
Date: 1824 Architect: Fredrick Shinkel
Altes Museum - Berlin, Germany
Contamin and Dutert Gallery of Machines
1. Use of a 3 pinned arch2. Massive scale3. Highlighted engineering for expression of architecture4. The building is a machine5. Used for the French exposition of 1889
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
Galerie des Machines Paris, France
Otto Wagner Postal Savings Bank
1. Tectonic expression of materials 2. Jugenstihl - The Young Style3. Ended the Neoclassical style4. New materials must reflect the new times
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
Postparkasse (Postal Savings Bank) - Vienna
Adolph Loos Loos House
1. No ornament - Ornament is a crime2. Flatness of the facade3. Windows are just holes in the wall4. Rejection of Art Nouveaux
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
Loos House - Vienna
Louis Sullivan Wainwright Building
1. Isolated pier foundation 2. Curtain wall3. ‘C’ shape in plan to let light into the interior4. Expression of ‘Form Follows Function’5. Expression of a tall building
Date: 1891 AD Architect: Louis Sullivan ( Adler and Sullivan)
Wainwright Building - St. Louis, Missouri
Date: 1894 - 96 AD Architect: Louis Sullivan ( Adler and Sullivan)
The Guaranty Building- Buffalo, New York
Date: 1891 AD Architect: Louis Sullivan ( Adler and Sullivan)
Wainwright Building - St. Louis, Missouri
Daniel Burnham Monadnock Building
1. Tallest load bearing brick building2. Use of Elevators3. 2 meter thick walls at ground floor4. Poor light conditions for interior5. Shows the limitations of masonry construction
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
Monadnock Building - Chicago, Illinois
Gerritt Reitveld Schroeder House
1. Shifting plans in space2. Dissolved corner windows 3. Sliding walls to change the space4. 3 dimensional representation of Mondrian’s art
Date: 1924 Architect - Gerritt Reitveld
Schroeder House - Rotterdam , Holland
Date: 1924 Architect - Gerritt Reitveld
Schroeder House - Rotterdam , Holland
Date: 1924 Architect - Gerritt Reitveld
Schroeder House - Rotterdam , Holland
Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House
1. Cantilevered roofs2. Organic architecture3. Influences the European modernists (Meis, Gropius, Reitveld, etc.)4. Use of the hearth as the center of the house5. Prairie style house
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
Robie House - Oak Park, Illinois
Le Corbusier Villa Savoye
1. Five points of architecture (pilotis, strip windows, roof gardens, open floor plan, facade separate from the mass of building)2. Machine for living3. Separated from the site
Date: 1929 Architect: Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye - Poissy, France
Date: 1929 Architect: Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye - Poissy, France
Date: 1929 Architect: Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye - Poissy, France
Walter Gropius The Bauhaus
1. International Style2. Pinwheel Plan3. Complete school of design (architecture, textile, household goods, etc) 4. Use of concrete, steel and glass
Date: 1925 - 26 Architect: Walter Gropius
Bauhaus - Dessau, Germany
Date: 1925 - 26 Architect: Walter Gropius
Bauhaus - Dessau, Germany
Date: 1925 - 26 Architect: Walter Gropius
Bauhaus - Dessau, Germany
Mies van der Rohe Seagram’s Building
1. International Style2. Use of curtain wall3. Bronze I-beams attached to windows 4. Building set back from street to create a public plaza
Date: 1954 - 58 Architect: Mies van der Rohe
Seagram’s Building - New York, New York
Date: 1954 - 58 Architect: Mies van der Rohe
Seagram’s Building - New York, New York
Date: 1954 - 58 Architect: Mies van der Rohe
Seagram’s Building - New York, New York
Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater
1. Wright’s response to International Style2. Integrates the site into the building3. Cantilevered and shifting spatial planes4. Designed in 4 hours
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
Falling Water - Bear Run, Pennsylvania
Louis Kahn Exeter Library
1. Classical Modernism2. Pure Geometries Bilateral Symmetry3. Doughnut Concept4. Use of Natural Light
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
Phillips Exeter Academy Library - Exeter, New Hampshire
Peter Zumthor Thermal Baths
1. Phenomenological Architecture2. Use of Materials to create individual experience3. Minimalist4. Modern Vernacular5. Simplicity of Form