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UCSB FACULTY CLUBCHARLES MOORE

FACULTY CLUB, CHARLES MOORECharles Willard Moore was an American architect, educator, writer, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991.

CHARLES MOORE PROJECT:

• The influential Sea Ranch (1963) planned community in Sonoma County, California

• Kresge College (1971) at University of California Santa Cruz

• The Beverly Hills Civic Center (1992) in Beverly Hills, California

• The California Center for the Arts, Escondido in Escondido, California

• Lurie Tower at the University of Michigan• The Williams College Museum of Art • The Faculty Club at University of California, Santa

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King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Environmental Design Architecture Department Green Architecture Unit

Terry FarrellKresge college

Kresge was the sixth college established at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Founded in 1971, it was designed with the concept of participatory democracy as a means of encouraging a strong sense of community. The vision was for the college to be a place where students enjoyed a sense of creativity, community, and individuality.

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM

ROBERT VENTUR

Is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, USA. It maintains three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened on January 20, 2007.

HistoryThe SAM collection has grown from 1,926 pieces in 1933 to nearly 25,000 as of 2008. Its original museum provided an area of 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2); the present facilities provide 312,000 square feet (29,000 m2) plus a 9-acre (3.6 ha) park. Paid staff have increased from 7 to 303, and the museum library has grown from approximately 1,400 books to 33,252. While the number of visitors has grown, the pattern is more complicated: 346,287 people visited the museum in its first year; in 1978 the traveling exhibit Treasures of Tutankhamen(shown in the facility at Seattle Center) drew 1.3 million visitors in a mere four months; 2007 attendance was 797,127

Museum & hass houseHans Hollein

Hans Hollein was born on 30 March 1934 in Vienna,Austria, he is an architect and designer.

Hollein comes from a family of mining engineers.In his childhood he attended Franz Cizek’s Youth Art Classesin Vienna.After his graduation in 1953 at the Federal Crafts

and Industry School in Vienna, he studied architectureat the Academy of Fine Arts in Clemens Holzmeister’s master class.

He studied architecture and urban planning at the Illinois Instituteof Technology (IIT) in Chicago until 1959.In 1960 he finished his studies at the Universityof California in Berkeley as Master of Architecture.

In his extensive travels by car through the USAand Mexico he was, among others, very interestedin the buildings of Rudolf M. Schindler and the pueblosof the American Indians.

After his return to Vienna he worked in several architecture offices, until he started his own business as certified civil engineer in 1964.From 1964 until 1970 he was editor of the magazine “Bau”in Vienna and worked also for several nationaland international architectural journals as a correspondent.

In 2010 he founded together with Ulf Kotz and Christoph Monschein the Hans Hollein & Partner ZT-GmbH.An essential part of Hollein’s life was formed by his teaching activitiesin Austria and abroad: In the USA he was guest professorat the Washington University in 1963/64and in 1966 at the School of Architecture,St. Louis/Missouri, the Yale University, New Haven/Connecticut,the University of California (UCLA),Los Angeles and at the Ohio State University, Columbus.

From 1967 until 1976 he was professor at the Academyof Arts in Düsseldorf. At the University of Applied Artsin Vienna he was head of the master class for Industrial Design

and of the Institute for Design, from 1976 until 1979,as well as head of a master class for architecture from 1979until 2002 and head of the Department I Architecture from 1995 until 1999.

Villa La Rotonda is a Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza, northern Italy,The proper name is Villa Almerico Capra, but it is also known as La Rotonda,Villa Rotonda, Villa Capra and Villa Almerico.The name "Capra" derives from the Capra brothers,who completed the building after it was ceded to them in 1592.

Along with other works by Palladio, the building is conserved as part of the World Heritage Site"City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.

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Villa Capra "La Rotonda"