Architecture  Lecture  10-­‐April  4,  2013

Final  Exam:Section  I-­‐-­‐ identify  the  author  of  each  text

-­‐ example:  “eating  oysters  with  boxing  gloves,  naked,  on  the  9th  Iloor-­‐  such  is  the  plot  of  his  Iloor-­‐  the  20th  century  in  action”-­‐  Rem  Koolhas-­‐ will  come  from  the  reading  assignments  or  from  slides  in  class

Section  II-­‐  -­‐ brieIly  deIine  the  terms  below  as  discussed  in  class.  Your  deIinition  should  NOT  be  longer  than  one  sentence.  If  more  the  one  deIinition  was  provided  in  class,  choose  the  one  that  you  think  is  more  relevant  to  the  discipline  of  architecture-­‐ be  as  speciIic  as  possible,  requires  more  conceptual  thinking,  no  explicit  deIinition  given  in  class

-­‐ example:  GentriIicationSection  III-­‐  -­‐ identify  the  following.  Name  the  project,  architect,  location  (city&country),  and  date  of  design  o  construction

-­‐ example:  Iloor  plansSection  IV-­‐-­‐ provide  brief  responses  to  the  questions  below  in  the  space  provided.  Do  NOT  write  a  full  sentences  unless  other  wise  instructed-­‐ name  two  difference  between  the  Red  Vienna  and  New  Frankfurt  Housing  Projects

-­‐ answer:  New  Frank  housing  subscribed  to  a  modernist  appearance,  always  insisted  on  standardization  

-­‐ identify  a  building  whose  transparency  can  be  described  as  neither  literal  or  phenomenal.  Explain  in  ONE  SentenceEssay  Questions-­‐-­‐ provide  a  brief  answer  (4-­‐5  sentences)  to  two  of  the  following  three  questions  in  the  space  provided  below.  Your  ANswer  should  be  concise,  clear,  and  to  the  point.  It  should  Iit  in  the  space  provided-­‐ spatial  arrangement  of  a  plan,  how  are  the  bedrooms  and  private  spaces  better  than  shared  spaces

-­‐ circulation  space:  you  have  to  pass  through  the  circulation  space  in  order  to  reach  the  private  space-­‐ you  have  to  pass  through  all  the  other  rooms  to  get  through  one  room,  making  even  the  private  spaces  very  public-­‐ use  key  words-­‐ make  2  arguments  in  the  paragraph  

Lecture  1:-­‐ history  of  the  present

-­‐ also  tell  us  how  things  did  not  have  to  be  the  way  they  were  today-­‐ Beaux-­‐Arts

-­‐ no  studio,  dedicated  to  lectures  

-­‐ had  a  huge  gallery  which  students  were  asked  to  make  drawings  from  architectural  fragments-­‐ students  had  to  rent  spaces  called  ateliers  outside  of  the  school

-­‐ Polytechnique-­‐ Bauhaus:  replaced  the  2  previous  schools,  however  we  still  use  words  such  as  charette  that  were  created  there

-­‐ the  jury  is  the  people  who  review  the  pin  up,  know  the  whole  process  and  change  in  how  work  was  assessed  from  school  to  school-­‐ bauhaus  curriculum  diagram

-­‐ The  Metropolis-­‐ view  of  modern  era:  utopia  and  dystpoia  -­‐ Engles  -­‐ dealing  with  the  problem  of  modernization:-­‐ Haussmenization  of  Paris

-­‐ renew  infrastructure  -­‐ hygiene,  urban  furniture  

-­‐ Ebener  Howard  suggested  the  idea  of  garden  cities  or  satellite  cities-­‐ modernist  faith  in  open  space  as  a  key  component  

-­‐ plan  voisin:  Le  Corbusier’s  plan  to  take  down  the  centre  of  Paris  which  would  provide  more  air  and  light  to  the  city

-­‐ media  in  architecture:  Columina  -­‐ Mies  Van  Der  Rohe’s  Barcelona  Pavilion  existed  only  in  images  for  a  long  time  and  because  of  popularity  it  was  built  in  1980s-­‐ MOMA

-­‐ exhibitions  and  people-­‐ Tectonics  

-­‐ looking  at  the  question  of  structure  of  tectonics-­‐ tectonics  is  a  matter  of  how  buildings  appear  to  stand  up  as  well  as  how  they  are  actually  standing  up  

-­‐ primitive  huts-­‐ Geidion  hated  oranment-­‐ Herzog  and  de  Meuron

-­‐ trying  to  make  sense  of  the  unusual  ornamentation-­‐ FUNCTIONALISM  

-­‐ chair  example-­‐ ornament=  anything  which  seemed  unnecessary  

-­‐ Loos:  ornament  and  Crime-­‐ Le  Corbusier  no  longer  interested  in  the  doric  orders-­‐ AEG  lamps  -­‐ what  makes  modern  architecture  modern  is  a  social  project  that  is  imbedded  in  it

-­‐ architecture  can  be  used  to  make  society  better  -­‐ social  relations-­‐ section  of  the  Narcotic?-­‐ Le  Corbusier’s  Unite  d’habitation

-­‐ towards  an  architecture:  good  architecture  is  the  way  to  prevent  revolutions-­‐ Saltworks  is  one  of  the  earliest  examples  of  this

-­‐ CIAM-­‐ housing  in  Red  Vienna  after  WWI

-­‐ much  more  successful-­‐ Walter  Gropius  

-­‐ Dammerstock  Settlement  -­‐ transportation  systems  

-­‐ Yamasaki,  Pruitt-­‐Igoe,  St.  Loius,  1955,  destroyed  in  1972-­‐ did  not  provide  the  kinds  of  living  conditions  it  promised  its  inhabitants  and  became  a  breading  group  for  crime-­‐ Jencks  equated  this  moment  of  recognition  of  the  failure  of  modern  architecture-­‐ factor  that  fed  into  the  failure  of  pruitt-­‐igoe

-­‐ Rem  Koolhas,  Delirious  New  York-­‐ tried  to  revive  the  peculiar  way  social  life  existed  in  NY