arc 308 test 1 - building list study guide

arc 308 test 1 - building list study guide Bishop's Palace - Answer-- Galveston, TX - Nicholas John Clayton - architecture and society: house describes people in that place at that time (reflects the character/nature merchants who lived there and the time and city in which they lived) Foam House - Answer-- Austin, TX - Charles Harker - 1969 architecture and society: house that describes people in that place at that time (reflect the wild, ambitious nature of the time it was built: hippie culture + rebellious) The Parthenon - Answer-- Athens, Greece - 447-430 BCE architecture and society: monument in architecture - look at way in which they're not just objects, they really are physical embodiment of culture they represent (what does it say about the people who made EMILLECT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR ©2024 EMILLECT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024. Page 2/30 it + how can we all these centuries later go back and viscerally feel what it was like to be in greece at that time) example of architecture becoming a physical embodiment of greek culture + eloquent expression of who they were St. Peter's Basilica - Answer-- Rome, Italy (Vatican City) - Bramante, Sangallo, Michelangelo, Della Porta, Maderno, Bernini - architecture and society: Very intentional desire to say what is the church of rome: vatican's church + center of catholic church monument = emblem of church, church power, pope, centrality of church in rome, whole city + whole culture - Power of arch to become physical embodiment of who we are as individuals + collectively as culture - Make us today think abt our own culture (San Antonio Public) Library - Answer-- San Antonio - Ricardo Legorreta - 1995 architecture and society: what does physical environment say about san antonio (culture, people) EMILLECT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR ©2024 EMILLECT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024. Page 3/30 architecture is physical embodiment of who we are (Garkau) Farm - Answer-- Gut Garkau, Germany - Hugo Haring - architectural values: haring believed function is above all the greatest criteria for architecture (flow) + no universals of beauty + every building should have its own unique character (ex: material character and unique shape) building reflects how architecture comes out of function of building (Shape and form of every piece of that building is being generated by function) Everything in building is so carefully considered according to the values of haring Importance of the individual Individual building, expression of that building, function: All generating architectural form Barcelona Pavilion - Answer-- Barcelona, Spain - Mies van der Rohe - 1929 architectural values: EMILLECT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR ©2024 EMILLECT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024. Page 4/30 talking about construction (construction generating form) Generated by notion of how do you build authentically in this heavy brick material - how do you make openings in it that don't violate that notion of the big solid brick wall (reflects van der Rohe's values) Illinois Institute of Technology Campus - Answer-- Chicago, Illinois - Mies can der Rohe - architectural values: Buildings are very similar to each other Didn't believe every building needed to be unique There were principles that could be broadly applied Even though functions of buildings very diff, they wouldn't necessarily create a diff architectural form all the buildings share the same vocabulary: steel frame with in filled brick + large sheets of glass Entire campus have this homogeneity + technolo