Connection with the ciam city planning transporation

Wanted to create a city that was functional, made four zones, work, living, transportation.
Connection with the CIAM city planning.
Transporation was important.
V1-V6 Cars
V7 Pedestrians
- The capital buildings are all located at the head of the city, creates a hiearchy of the city
with the most important at the top. Highest paid closest to the administrative center,
further away you go down lower on the social and economic scale.
- In monumental center it uses idea of open spaces between buildings to see them across
great distances to show you what great government looks like.
Open Hand: Space for public speaking, to openly engage in dialogue and express civil ideas.
Only for citizens to be engaged in the large dialogue.
What power should look like.
Secretariat:
- Everything is concrete because it is inexpensive, easily made, similar to traditional
building materials to create formwork.
- Similar to Habitacion de unitacion
o Unrelenting grid, relieved by sculptural form of the staircase.
o Deliberate contrast from graph and curvo linear artistic form of that staircase.
o Objet-Type repeated.
o Plastic cantilever aesthetic provides relief.
Assembly Building:
- Play of the brise soleil: Suns screen. Honey comb pattern that creates shadows and blocks
direct sunlight.
- Porch provides curve relief from the repitiion
Abstracting focused on the what the precolonial ideas, and the longevity of Indian architecture.
o It meant locating the building in a sense of time about the idea that time lasted
forever. Timelessness and history.
o Funnel form allowed tracking of the sun across the sky.
o Funnel emerges from the flat landscape relates to the landscape itself which refers
to the plains and acts as a mountain.
o Relationship to the heavens and suns.
o Composed of a series of rectangles.
Louis I. Kahn, National Assembly, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1962-83

Critical Regionalism:
Haptic/Optic:
Establishment of independence and throwing of colonial rule.
- Mexico looks to Paris, beaux arts for inspiration of what a modern city should be.
Adamo Boari Palacio de Bellas Artas, Mexico City, 1904-18938
- Monumental object
- Plaza
Hints of quotations from the western architectural legacy.
- Reclining sculptures that resemble the Michelangelo’s architecture sculptures. Direct
quotation from the legacy of European art and architecture.
- Quotations from Aztec sculpture, imagery.
Interior:
- Monumental interior space
- European ideas of grandeur and monumentality
- Bifarcated staircase
- Polished marble
La Nueva Democracia (1945)
- Struggle for independence and democracy.
- Transforms building that was European in character that was more national.
- Personification of democracy, she is bound in chains but behind her she has left behind
the imposition of European colonial rule.
- The political struggle informs what Mexican architecture is, reflects European ideas of
architecture to something else.
Juan O’ Gorman, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
- Deeply engaged with the communist party and workers revolution
- Avant-garde artistic movement in their work.
Diego Rivera House and Studio
- Impact of color, landscape and light in a different geographical and cultural context.
o Deep blues and deep reds.
o Found precolonial associations with color.
o Blue used for centuries in context to ward off equal spirits. Folk traditions