Lecture 13: Architecture since the Mid 19th Century II
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, 1929-30
- Modern house: follow the international style : simple and geometric form
- No sense of facade or historical ornament, walls doesn’t have any pattern and seem
like they don’t have any weight
- White stucco and strip windows; elegant proportions, stripped down; raised on
pilotis (slender, columnar supports) to emphasize lightness and create a floating effect
that separates the building from the ground and allows nature to flow beneath ( The space
outside penetrates the bottom of the house )
- Wind screens for sunbathing on roof;
- walls seem taught membranes without weight or mass. No organic relationship to setting:
an abstract form set on a lawn.
- Neutral setting, doesn’t havin relationship to the environment around it
+ a style in architecture (1920-1930 ): geometric form -> modernism.
- Embodies utopian modernist ideals about how rational design could transform everyday
life and create a more harmonious society
- Abstract
- Presents pure geometric volumes and white surfaces that reject historical ornamentation
in favor of machine-like aesthetics
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater (Kaufmann House), Bear Run, PA, 1936-39
- Modern, leisure house, where he brings his colleagues to have picnic and swim
- Composition of something really geometric and organic
- Emphasizing strong horizontal planes
- Completely organic with its setting in nature, and its plan: site ( the setting of it:
greens, waterfall, …) and the whole design ( house plan ) => meant to harmonize with
the environment => Organic architecture
+ The space ( living room, kitchen,...) flows from one to the other
+ The interior and exterior intertwine through corner-turning windows, extensive
glazing, and stepped terraces
+ Big terrace ( ban cong lon ) allow nature and owner intertwin
+ => Mixing the inside and outside
- Romantic : the sound of the waterfall that could be heard in every room
- Prioritizes human experience and psychological comfort over pure functionalist doctrine
- No façade, open plan, massive hearth and fireplace,
- Emphasis on beauty and integration with natural site rather than on practicality
- Naturalism: the idea of nature and organic architecture
- The living room floor’s stone reminds you of the stone outdoor
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, 1929-30
- Modern house: follow the international style : simple and geometric form
- No sense of facade or historical ornament, walls doesn’t have any pattern and seem
like they don’t have any weight
- White stucco and strip windows; elegant proportions, stripped down; raised on
pilotis (slender, columnar supports) to emphasize lightness and create a floating effect
that separates the building from the ground and allows nature to flow beneath ( The space
outside penetrates the bottom of the house )
- Wind screens for sunbathing on roof;
- walls seem taught membranes without weight or mass. No organic relationship to setting:
an abstract form set on a lawn.
- Neutral setting, doesn’t havin relationship to the environment around it
+ a style in architecture (1920-1930 ): geometric form -> modernism.
- Embodies utopian modernist ideals about how rational design could transform everyday
life and create a more harmonious society
- Abstract
- Presents pure geometric volumes and white surfaces that reject historical ornamentation
in favor of machine-like aesthetics
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater (Kaufmann House), Bear Run, PA, 1936-39
- Modern, leisure house, where he brings his colleagues to have picnic and swim
- Composition of something really geometric and organic
- Emphasizing strong horizontal planes
- Completely organic with its setting in nature, and its plan: site ( the setting of it:
greens, waterfall, …) and the whole design ( house plan ) => meant to harmonize with
the environment => Organic architecture
+ The space ( living room, kitchen,...) flows from one to the other
+ The interior and exterior intertwine through corner-turning windows, extensive
glazing, and stepped terraces
+ Big terrace ( ban cong lon ) allow nature and owner intertwin
+ => Mixing the inside and outside
- Romantic : the sound of the waterfall that could be heard in every room
- Prioritizes human experience and psychological comfort over pure functionalist doctrine
- No façade, open plan, massive hearth and fireplace,
- Emphasis on beauty and integration with natural site rather than on practicality
- Naturalism: the idea of nature and organic architecture
- The living room floor’s stone reminds you of the stone outdoor
