Sunday, June 29, 2014

#012 - Architecture Survey Introduction - How Architects Thinkspeak


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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