Hot desk environment you dont have a desk youre

 Hot desk environment: you don’t have a desk, you’re always switching
 Unity Temple – FL Wright
o Concrete for an ecclesiastical program
 Albert Kahn
o Packard Company
 Building to assemble vehicles. Formally, the massing reads “office building”
but the glazing suggests something different
o Ford Engineering Lab
 Reminiscent of Notre Dame du Raincy

 Translucent glass, walls cut away as much as possible. Spatial quality of this
factory when silent and empty reminds us very much of a church
 May be appropriate when considering the centrality of industrialism to
life
 Humble material applied to buildings that don’t even seem significant can be
amazing
2/10/16
 Exam Review
 Format: 10 short answer, 2 essay questions
o Short answer: for each building, there will be a bonus question. Example: question
might be “program?”, bonus might be “architect?”
o Galerie des machines – Gothic revival
o Hotel Tassel – Art Nouveau – Horta
o Garnier – Opera House – Paris –
 Essay questions: look at two structure – know name of architect, building, location, and
program. Then compare the two buildings and write three to five paragraphs
2/15/16
 WWI/Rise of Communism/other traumatic events
 Spanish flu: global outbreak at the end of WWI – killed between 20-40 million. Deadliest
plague since the middle ages; 1/5 of the world population was infected; especially
deadly amongst 20-40 year olds
o Average life span depressed by 10 years. Rapid deaths – die within hours
o Profound shift in the way of representing the human form – change in the very
notion. Emerging question of how to represent reality sincerely
 Trends in European art, a lot of anxiety and tension
 Early cinema – world transformed into a confusing place
 How to make sense of this
 Expressionists: glass. The architectural analog to crystal, which was admired because it
would refract light.
 Germans: expressionism
 Feininger – crystal cathedral
 Glass Pavilion
o Solve problems of society: live in a world with more glass
o Sunlight considered a form of disinfectant; if you wanted to be healthy, live in a
space with light and fresh air
o A pavilion designed to highlight the ways glass can be used in architecture
 Glass bricks as an infill
 Ceiling and roof make of glass panels (seen before, Crystal Palace)
 Stairs could even be made of glass – everything suggested that we should live
in a world of glass
 Alpine Architektur, City from the West – architecture as a corrective. Idealized cities of
glass

o Why did they have so much faith in this particular material?
 Chemical Plant
o Expressionism was not limited to crystalline architecture. It was also interested in
architecture that spoke to a sense of myth, in the ways of caves and subterranean
structures
o During WWI, chemicals were a terrible thing (mustard/nerve gas)
o Project with asymmetrical massing
o Structure with an almost animal-like quality, windows read as eyes
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