Frank People: Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959) Wright House, Oak Park, Illinois, 19891909 Robie House, Oak Park, Illinois, 1908 Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1911 Aline Barnsdall House (Hollyhock House), Hollywood, California, 1917-21 Charles Ennis House, Los Angeles, California, 1923-4 Kaufman House (Fallingwater), Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1935 Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, 1923 Prairie Houses Wasmuth Portfolio, 1910-1911 Rudolph Schindler Schindler/Chace House (King's Road House), Los Angeles, 1922 Richard Neutra Von Sternberg House, San Fernando Valley, California, 1935 People: -Giovanni Piranesi (1720 - 1778) Italian architect, artist Carceri (Prison) Series (1749-50) elaborate multi-perspectival drawings of imagined prisons -Michael Graves (1934 -) American architect drawings consisting of pastels on yellow trace paper ; -Bridge House (unbuilt) & nbsp; -Swan & Dolphin Hotel, Disneyworld -Paul Rudolf (1918 - 1997) American architect & nbsp; -Yale Arts & Architecture Building (perspectival section) -Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe (1886 - 1969) German architect emigrated to US 1937 -collage drawings of interior views to natural settings (MoMA) -Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 - 1446)
Emerson Junior High School, West Los Angeles, California, 1938 Lovell Health House, Los Angeles, California, 1927-9 Kaufman Desert House, Palm Springs, California, 1946 Things: Froebel Gifts/Froebel blocks House on Haunted Hill (William Castle, 1959) Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) Terms Gesamtkunstwerk "battered" shapes "tilt-up" construction organic transcendentalism pinwheel plan free plan
Italian architect & nbsp; -"invented" perspective drawing technique w/ demonstration using a mirror and view of Baptistry in Florence, Italy -Giambattista Nolli (1701 -1756) Italian architect & surveyor -Bernard Tschumi (1944 -) Swiss architect, former chair of Columbia University's GSAUPP -Daniel Libeskind (1946 -) German architect -Thom Mayne (1944 -) American Architect (UCLA Faculty) &n bsp; -6th Street House -Neil Denari (1957 -) American Architect (UCLA Faculty) Terms: -Orthographic projection: 2D drawings &n bsp; - plan (plan oblique,
reflected ceiling plan) - section (longitudinal and cross sections) -elevation -elevation oblique -Site plan: shows context of project -Perspective drawing: single or multiple vanishing points -Section perspective -Axonometric -Isometric -Axonometric/isometric sections -Elevation oblique -Cutaway perspective -Composite -Collage -Rendering -Sketch or Working model -Wireframe model Things/Terms: Pilotis Ribbon windows Monograph Classical Orders (Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite) Tripartite People (as well as some books and projects): "Vitruvius" Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (80 - 25 BCE) - De architectura (The Ten Books of Architecture) Sebastiano Serlio (1475 - 1554 CE) - Tutte l'opere d'architettura, et prospetiva (Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective) Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere de Quincy (1755 - 1849 CE) - Encyclopedie Methodique d'Architecture Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965 CE) - Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France (1928-31 CE) - Aprs le cubisme (After Cubism) - Vers une architecture (Towards a New
-Digital Rendering Important Drawings: -Carceri Prison Series (Piranesi) -Nolli Map of Rome (1736 - 1748) -Louis Kahn - traffic plan of Philadelphia -Yale Arts & Archiecture Building composite sectional perspective (P. Rudolph) -Plan of Bauhaus exhibit, MoMA (Herbert Bayer) -Sistine Chapel (Perugino) -Peak Project, Kowloon perspective (Zaha Hadid) -Berlin City Edge Project (D. Libeskind) -Sixth Street House composite drawings (T. Mayne) -Manhattan Transcripts (B. Tschumi)
Architecture) - Urbanisme (Urbanism) - L'Art dcoratif d'aujourd'hui (The Decorative Arts of Today) - La Ville radieuse (The Radiant City) - Charte d'Athens (Athens Charter) - and many others Robert Venturi (1925 - CE) - Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture - Learning From Las Vegas (with Denise Scott Brown) Rem Koolhaas - S,M,L,XL (with Bruce Mau) - Delerious New York Peter Behrens (1868 - 1940 CE) - Projects for AEG, including the Turbine Factory Walter Gropius - Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany Weiner Werkstatte - Joseph Hoffmann (1870 - 1956 CE) Greg Lynn - Folding in Architecture - Animate Form
Lecture 1 Cathedral is architecture history, more than just cover up. Tells story about place/civilization
War memorials important to storytelling. How you make a clear monument to such a complicated war. Vietnam war. Became the most popular monument. 1960's people decided instead of being single creative genius, they decided to collaborate -> archigram Paco Reban went to arch school integrated fashion into architecture. Ex: combining unique materials like plastic and integrating into fashion. Houses Can be like a machine, also solar powered One of the ways people have historically understood arch. Is like clothing providing some form of shelter and protection to the human body Buildings tell multiple stories over different changes in time, architecture is usually related to places in which they were produced but cannot be too general. Prefab houses related to class and economic status. White house traditional views of geometry Lecture 2 10/3 Frank Lloyd Wright Guggenhiem Museum (NY) Geometry how Wright uses it to tell something about him picture of Guggenheim of wright himself shows his view of the world Circular ramp leading up in museum change view of world. Always looking into center. Like a universe unto itself. This is even more obvious when you lok @ museum from outside appears likean ideal word amidst the chaos of NYC. => creators of utopia -> place where you can start a new building, everything from scratch as you want it. Architects imagine themselves as creators of little pieces of utopia Idea that when enough of these are made eventually the word will improve for the better. Ghery's Guggenheim Unlike spheres that are platonic geometric figures, ideal in architecture, Gehry's Gugenheim is more modern instead of classical, has more angles less circular. Still looks like a different version of utopia. Museums have become like chain stores, more available to the masses. Basque region (Spain) used to be a "non-place" became terrorist hotbed ppl noted for independence then idea to put Guggenheim 1994- this dramatically changed view of city put Bilbao on the map. Increased tourism and value, gave worth to the land -Bilbao not only gave an image but one that's unforgettable, special ICONIC. Everyday movement flows of city are reflected by Ghery's building. -Brihap new "coastal characters" to city giant puppy dog becomes their mascot. Everyday figure that Bilbao. elevates They refer to this effect as the Bilbao effect. Places seek archs to find the right design and have their own bilbao Gehry's sketches are ideally composed of only one continuous line. Becomes an indication of movement for entire expressive idea that is already present. Defies stationary, standing still, nature of buildup Gehry's sketch model Model version has squiggly lines. Looks messy like it was just thrown together. Paper used makes hundreds of models of the same thing to envision his building. Uses wire frames and
technologies to design and put into reality his designs of buildings. Uses blocks to map out program, the make up for the building for galleries to cafeterias. Archs combine many technologies for diff fields into design. Construction of their buildings plan if you take buildings and chop everything down except 1 inch above ground, helsyou see presence of blocks and more exciting places in building. Everything, layout. Site = immediate surrounding area. Exact opposite to write is gehry's bilbao Guggenhem. Rivers of site seem to influence flow of building itself. Final presentation model is final stage of scale model. Gehry devised titanium shining, reflective type of jewel in city part of great Bilbao effect back to the heroic icon. Problems came with mass urbanization especially in the world class slums. Architects dismissed elaborate bourgeoisie lifestyle for idals of working class...class improvement idea of minimalization now the idea of beauty, functionalism Perfect function = perfect beauty ex: multiple housing units, apartments All are the same, stripped down to minimum, none better than another "less is more" camera = revolutionalized capturing movement. Paralleled efficient use of movement in modern industry and arch. Arch is becoming rational and improving the most intimate part of people's lives. Contemporary city for 3 mil. Le Courbusier Tall and low buildings meant to encourage clean air. Also super straight lines (efficiency) form highly concentrated city surrounded by interdispersing streets (circulation how ppl, cars, etc. get to each other, flows of movement) like an efficient machine Keep the ground free large airport right in middle (unpolluted) of the city MINIMAL FUNCTIONAL CURVILINEAR PLAIN ORNATE Architects thinking re: how to redesign downtown LA Utopian more naturalized visions of city Jewel Disney concert hall 10/4 **relate to other buildings we've seen and make speculations Richard Meyer's Broad Art Center -linear, angular, nontraditional. Doesn't look like the rest of campus which is more Italian gothic style. Minimalist no ornamentation Mechanical modernist, very functional, reflection of 50's and 60's Modern Arch = early 20th century 1960's 10/8 Architecture is not self-evident unlike sculptures and paintings where there is a clear relationship of identity with who made it eg. Sculptor, painter
Le Courbuiser likes to strip things down to bare minimum and build them back up eg. Plan vision for Pais vision of super quick great trans system, no diseases etc. Dramatic line between idea of architect as hero and architecture as villain most significant cultural EX: WTC orig built as symbol of man's dedication for World Peace to revitalize downtown NY. After 9/11 ppl can only see through lense of 9/11 Bigness the issue of the 70's how big can you make things Le Corbusier's idea of building as an "utopian city" within an actual city make buildings look like they're floating and get people off the ground. WTC did this by using glass on the bottom Architects make drawings and ideas NOT build buildings Growth reflects growth of economy and reflection of country *WTC USA* Architects tell stories that change over time. 10/10 Good/Bad vs Insider/Outsider Archigram rock band not designed to be built set of ideals vs proposal "OUTSIDER" Norman Foster built most buildings more than any other living architect. "INSIDER" Carlo Molino odd creative genius "Everything is permissible as long as it is fantastic" Designed furniture -> organic legs resembled legs Avante Garde Based off military strategy Organized around faith in modern technology. Cannot be built right now but offer infrastructure and design. Worked in groups like minded people would write manifestos and statements about future. Nothing else in picture exemplifies Utopian architecture. MODERNISM functionality and made of all machine made materials Thermal walls thick walls that absorb heat during the day and radiates heat at night. Ideal in deserts. Like LA 10/15 Right now, period of active building and innovation esp. in LA LA- many single family homes. Only urban area to be low density (most are very dense ex: Paris). The more dense the population you're building for, the less adventurous you can be in arch. Wright developed "Prarie" style housing Robie house Extension of simple rational shapes and organization. Has main roof that stretches long across building. Low to the ground. Creates shadows that make it look like its floating. Bricks flat, skinny. Even mortar accentuates long lines. Wright felt this as a metaphor for American Prarie. Not just sitting on prarie but hovering, youre on prarie but not stuck to it. Reinvention of self and new American organicism "Meta American" Mesoamerican. United central noth and south American architecture. Low overhangs, wider tops, smaller bottoms. Hollyhock house long wings to strech further outinto
landscape infiniti. While inside the house, you're still close to nature. Simple materials and low building to the ground. Simultaneous attachment and detachment of house to nature. 10/17 archs don't have to be a person, can be an office, idea, etc. drawings are a form of technology, cant have it til you have certain tools. Drawings also allow repeatability and reproduction separation between it and architecture because it can travel around independently from architecture. Courbusier's sketches fat lines, primary colors, many shapes Meier elevation sketches more formal, about geometry, very linear **Main goal is to convey idea while working drawings are more about accuracy spec and legality b/c it transfers arch's idea into reality. Don't confuse great drawing with being a great architect. Orthographic projections simplest kind of drawing. How to take a 3D object and represent on 2D paper. Site plans show relationships between buildings and whose it is. Object context emphasis 10/22 5 single imgs 5min each 2 sets of 2 images 10 minutes each Bourne Syndrome no clear who is good or bad In picture ambition/potential/hope brave new world vs destruction 10/24 plastic has no inherent shape molded architecture