Central to an architect's, or any designer's, job is solving complex problems. It's not possible to solve these problems through analytical methods, so Architects have come up with multiple subjective, or intuitive, ways of solving them. One of which is to simply draw on experience. "Well in the past, in a similar situation, this worked. Let's try it again and see what happens."
Where experience fails, architects can fall back on precedence.
The work of others in similar situations. Throughout the centuries architects
find themselves over and over again going back to certain buildings by certain
architects. These architects and these works form a set of building blocks from
which each architect can build his or her own design philosophy.
They also form the basis of a sort of short hand architects
use when talking to each other. They might say, "It's very Mesian, or
Wrightean" or "It's very Bauhaus"
To hopefully help listeners understand what we are talking
about when this happens, David Rader and I are going to undertake a special
sub-series in which we look at a survey of important architects and works that
make up the mental background of most modern architecture practices. It's not
an exhaustive survey. It's a bare- essentials for anyone who wants to be
relatively fluent in architect-ese.
From time to time David and I will look at a well known
building by a well known architect that still has a major space in architecture
culture. Where possible we'll look at a building David and/or I have been to in
person because no matter how much you study a building, seeing it in person is
always surprising. We'll cover the people involved, the Architect and the
Client. The reason the building was built and a little about the times in which
the building was built. We'll go over some of the distinct, unique, and
influential elements of the building or work. and we'll wrap up with why the
building is important and give our own critique of the building. There's a lot
to be gained by tearing down giants, or at least chipping away at them.
See our initial list below and feel free to suggest buildings and architects we may have missed. Heck, tell us there are some we should cut.
| Building/Work | Architect/Autor | Year |
| Parthenon | Iktinos, Kallikrates, Phidias | -447 |
| Ten Books of Architecture | Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) | 0 |
| Foundlings Hospital | Brunelleschi, Filippo | 1419 |
| Pazzi Chapel | Brunelleschi, Filippo | 1430 |
| Duomo | Brunelleschi, Filippo | 1436 |
| On the Art of Building | Alberti, Leon Batista | 1452 |
| La Tempietto | Bramante, Donato | 1502 |
| Palazzo della Ragioine | Paladio, Andrea | 1546 |
| Villa Barbaro | Paladio, Andrea | 1560 |
| Villa Rotunda | Paladio, Andrea | 1566 |
| Stourhead | Varuious | 1719-1764 |
| Royal Saltworks Arc-et-Senans | Ledoux, Claude Nicolas | 1778 |
| University of Virginia | Jefferson, Thomas | 1825 |
| Panopticon | Bentham, Jeremy | 1791 |
| Bibleotheque Ste Genevieve | Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene Emanuel | 1845 |
| The Seven Lamps of Architecture | Ruskin, John | 1849 |
| Notre-Dame Paris | Labrouste, Henri | 1850 |
| Crystal Palace | Paxton, Joseph | 1851 |
| Eames Lounge Chair | Eames, Charles and Ray | 1956 |
| Entretiens sur l'architecture | Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene Emanuel | 1872 |
| Opera Paris | Garnier, Charles | 1875 |
| Marshal Field Wholesale Store | Richardson, Henry Hobson | 1885 |
| The Wainright Building | Sulivan, Louis; Adler, Dankmar | 1891 |
| Reliance Building | Root, John | 1895 |
| Paris Metro | Guimard, Hecotr | 1900 |
| Unity Temple | Wright, Frank Lloyd | 1906 |
| Robbie House | Wright, Frank Lloyd | 1909 |
| AEG Turbine Factory | Behrens, Peter | 1909 |
| Citta Nuova | Sant'Elia, Antonio | 1914 |
| Glass Skyscrpaer | Mies van der Rohe, Ludwieg | 1920 |
| Schroder House | Rietveld, Gerrit | 1924 |
| Bauhaus | Gropius, Walter | 1926 |
| Lenin Institute | Leonidov, Ivan | 1927 |
| Towards an Architecture | Le Corbusier | 1927 |
| Barcelona Pavilion | Mies van der Rohe, Ludwieg | 1929 |
| Villa Savoy | Le Corbusier | 1931 |
| Viipuri Library | Aalto, Alvar | 1935 |
| Casa Del Fascio | Terrangni, Giuseppe | 1936 |
| Falling Water | Wright, Frank Lloyd | 1936 |
| Eames House | Eames, Charles and Ray | 1949 |
| Farnsworth House | Mies van der Rohe, Ludwieg | 1950 |
| Unite d'Habitation | Le Corbusier | 1952 |
| Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ranchamp | Le Corbusier | 1955 |
| Seagram Building | Mies van der Rohe, Ludwieg | 1958 |
| Guggenheim Musum | Wright, Frank Lloyd | 1960 |
| TWA Terminal | Sarrinen, Eero | 1962 |
| Fondazione Querini Stampalia | Scarpa, Carlo | 1963 |
| Kimble Art Museum | Kahn, Louis | 1972 |
| House VI | Eisenman, Peter | 1975 |
| The Pompidou Center | Pian, Renzo; Rogers Richard | 1977 |
| Delirous New York | Koolhaas, Rem | 1978 |
| High Museum of Art | Richard Meier | 1983 |
| Menil Collection | Pian, Renzo | 1986 |
| Hongkong and Shanghai Bank | Foster, Norman | 1986 |
| Pyramid de Musee de Luvre | Pei, I.M. | 1989 |
| Buckhead Branch Library | Scogin, Mack; Elam Merrill | 1989 |
| Michael C. Carlos Museum | Graves, Michael | 1993 |
| Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | Gehry, Frank | 1997 |
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