Arc 308 Test 1 - Building List Questions With
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Bishop's Palace - Galveston, TX
- Nicholas John Clayton
- 1886-1891
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 - 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 - Athens, Greece
- 447-430 BCE
,Arc 308 Test 1 - Building List Questions With
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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 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 - Rome, Italy (Vatican City)
- Bramante, Sangallo, Michelangelo, Della Porta, Maderno, Bernini
- 1505-1626
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
,Arc 308 Test 1 - Building List Questions With
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(San Antonio Public) Library - San Antonio
- Ricardo Legorreta
- 1995
architecture and society: what does physical environment say about san antonio (culture, people)
architecture is physical embodiment of who we are
(Garkau) Farm - Gut Garkau, Germany
- Hugo Haring
- 1924-1925
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
, Arc 308 Test 1 - Building List Questions With
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Importance of the individual
Individual building, expression of that building, function: All generating architectural form
Barcelona Pavilion - Barcelona, Spain
- Mies van der Rohe
- 1929
architectural values:
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 - Chicago, Illinois
- Mies can der Rohe
- 1938-1958
architectural values: Buildings are very similar to each other
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Bishop's Palace - Galveston, TX
- Nicholas John Clayton
- 1886-1891
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 - 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 - Athens, Greece
- 447-430 BCE
,Arc 308 Test 1 - Building List Questions With
Complete Solutions
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 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 - Rome, Italy (Vatican City)
- Bramante, Sangallo, Michelangelo, Della Porta, Maderno, Bernini
- 1505-1626
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
,Arc 308 Test 1 - Building List Questions With
Complete Solutions
(San Antonio Public) Library - San Antonio
- Ricardo Legorreta
- 1995
architecture and society: what does physical environment say about san antonio (culture, people)
architecture is physical embodiment of who we are
(Garkau) Farm - Gut Garkau, Germany
- Hugo Haring
- 1924-1925
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
, Arc 308 Test 1 - Building List Questions With
Complete Solutions
Importance of the individual
Individual building, expression of that building, function: All generating architectural form
Barcelona Pavilion - Barcelona, Spain
- Mies van der Rohe
- 1929
architectural values:
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 - Chicago, Illinois
- Mies can der Rohe
- 1938-1958
architectural values: Buildings are very similar to each other
