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Baroque and Rococo to an International Style

3.1 Baroque and Rococo to an International Style (EPuPrGA)

3.2 Modern to Contemporary Housing

Project # 1

Quiz 1 and 2 on week 4

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15 (202) The Drama of Shapes and Space: Baroque and Rococo

16 (218) The Prophets of Elegance: Romantic Classicism

17 (230) From Pioneers to Establishment: The Americas and Beyond

20 (266) Designing for a new society: International Style

(Patrick Nuttgens)

THE STORY OF ARCHITECTURE

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Let us investigate difference in aesthetic qualities from the three great architectural style:

Baroque

Romantic Classicism

International Style

Is Less More or is Less Bore?

Talking about Aesthetics

3.1 BAROQUE AND ROCOCO TO AN INTERNATIONAL STYLE (EPUPRGA)

Romantic ClassicismRobert Adam, Library, Kenwood House London

1767-68

BaroqueNeumann, Prince-Bishop’s Palace, Würzburg, Germany 1737-42

International StylePhilip Johnson, Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut 1949

1 2 3

Which style do you like best?

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Is Less More or is Less Bore?

Talking about Aesthetics

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Changes in the 14th and 15th centuries:– Hereditary nobles replaced by

merchant princes whose commercial empires spread throughout Europe

– Trade, and banking, played a central role in society

– Gunpowder: changed the relations between nations

– Invention of compass + new shipbuilding methods allowed for the expansion of the known world

– Movable type in printing helped spread ideas

In history, we will see changes in the style of architecture changing because of various events, inventions, ideologies, power and of course architects and designers who will shape the form and function of buildings

Counter-reformation

THE CHANGE TO BAROQUE

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Talking about Aesthetics

3.1 BAROQUE

http://jewelrybloguncovered.com/?nr=0

Misshapen Pearl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-aqMQXfbU

A pearl that has a free flowing characteristics exemplifies the Baroque movement

Amalienburg Pavilion, Nymphenburg Palace, Munich 1734-39

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Idea of Baroque

3.1 BAROQUE

Bernini’s Piaza (Draws you in with an embrace)

Bernini’s Canopy (Awe inspiring)

St. Peter’s Basilica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-aqMQXfbU

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The order and rigidity of the classics makes us keep coming back to this style and architects have done so in many instances throughout history

A point of reference

THE CLASSICS KEEPS COMING BACK

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The ideology of purity in architecture reached fever pitch when the moderns during the international style stripped all of ornamental components in a building and declared less is more

To International Style

LESS IS MORE

http://theallnighter.tumblr.com/search/architecture/page/3

BREAK

10 minutes

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What makes this house special and famous?

Where is it located?When was it constructed?What was the background of its design?What construction methods did it use?Who are responsible for this change in

architectural styles?

What other questions do you think we need to ask when analyzing architecture?

Let us investigate 5 famous houses in history:

Falling Water

Farnsworth House

Villa Savoye

Vanna Venturi House

Frank Gehry House

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SOME QUESTIONS TO ANSWER ABOUT BUILDINGS

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Falling Water (Archdaily, Great Buildings, Google Sketchup 3D Model, Google Earth)

Google Map Streetview: 1491 Mill Run Rd, Mill Run, PA 15464, United States

Organic Architecture

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Bear Run,Pennsylvania, 1934

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Farnsworth House (Archdaily, Great Buildings, Google Sketchup 3D Model, Google Earth)

Google Map Streetview: 14520 River Rd, Plano, Illinois, USA

International Style

LE CORBUSIER

River Road, Plano, Illinois 1945 and 1951

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Villa Savoye (Archdaily, Great Buildings, Google Sketchup 3D Model, Google Earth)

Google Map Streetview: 82 Rue de Villiers, Poissy, France

International Style

LE CORBUSIER

Poissy, France, 1928 to 1929.

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Vanna Venturi House (Archdaily, Great Buildings, Google Sketchup 3D Model, Google Earth)

Google Map Streetview: 8330 Millman Street Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19118 United States

Post Modern

ROBERT VENTURI

Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1962

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Frank Gehry House (Archdaily, Great Buildings, Google Sketchup 3D Model, Google Earth)

Google Map Streetview: 1002 22nd StreetSanta Monica, California United States

Deconstructivist

FRANK GEHRY

Santa Monica, California 1978

16. St. James Cathedral

2. Fairmont Royal York

1.Union Station

3. Royal Bank Plaza

4. Toronto Dominion Centre

8. BCE Place

10. St. Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts

14. St. Lawrence Market

11. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

12. Flatiron Building

18. Consumers’ Gas building

17.Toronto St. Post Office

15St. Lawrence Hall

History of ArchitectureAssignment 2: Toronto Architectural Tour(Week 5) (Time: ) (Place: Inside the Union Station’s Main Hall)

1. Join or create a group, email the name of your group together with the list of the members joining your team:2. Make a 5-10 minute LIVELY presentation regarding the building assigned to your group3. Talk (DO NOT READ) about the history(trivia), Owner

Architect, Architectural Style, Architectural construction techniques and materialsSignificance of the structure to the cityscape

4. Bring your cameras and take pictures of the Architectural Treasures we will find around Toronto (a list will be provided prior the trip)5. Prepare a 1 page write-up(no pictures) about the building you reported on6. Check with your professor of further details about this tour

Start

Stop

5. First Canadian Place 6.

Scotia Bank7. CIBC – old & new

9. Hockey Hall of Fame

13. Beardmore Bldg.

Tour Route

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Having studied the history of dwellings, write an essay on your dream house

Start by describing your own house comparing it to all the houses you have seen so far.

What features are you going to incorporate?

Will this be a sustainable house? How and why?

What spaces do you like to create?

Develop a bubble diagram of your dream house!

The houses we live in

3.2 MODERN TO CONTEMPORARY HOUSING

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Research a contemporary small city residence (less than 150 sqM in total floor area)

Analyze its design conceptEnvironmental considerations or factors

affecting the designMaterials usedStructural design and techniques

Written requirement (roughly 500words):

Indicate: project name, designer, location (can be any country, but must be in an urban area), and the year it was built.

Analyze and evaluate the design concept, environmental consideration, material using and structural methods in four forces (culture, technology, function and expression) in advantage and disadvantage aspect.

Explain what you want to learn from this dwelling project.

All reference sources should use APA style.

On Housing

PROJECT # 1 RESEARCH A CONTEMPORARY SMALL URBAN DWELLING

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From the beginning

QUIZ1 & 2: ON WEEK 4

- Settlement of human beings - Four forces which affect architecture- HOME (Assignment 1)- First civilizations

You can do better than this!So I will see you next meeting for another great adventure in the history of Architecture!

Module 3 Architectural History