arc 308 - exam 2 buildings/architects
study guide
Monte Alban, Mex - Answer✔✔-form reflects mts,
local materials
Acoma, New Mexico - Answer✔✔-sky city
Mont St. Michel - Answer✔✔-flat landscape,
complex built off of big rock
Falling Water
Frank Lloyd Wright - Answer✔✔-
Condominiums - Sea Ranch
Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, Whitaker - Answer✔✔-weathered material,
wind protection
Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright - Answer✔✔-thick walls absorb heat,
pool cools wind
Sea Ranch
Laurence Halprin - Answer✔✔-clustered houses,
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very few roads in the plans.
The Woodlands, TX
Ian McHarg - Answer✔✔-houses on the top of hills,
detention ponds below
Hill Towns in Tuscany - Answer✔✔-
Swim Club - Sea Ranch
Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, Whitaker - Answer✔✔-wind protection
Hattusa, Turkey - Answer✔✔-100 AD empire, missing arches as key structure
(compression)
The Pantheon - Answer✔✔-dome, arches, open @ top
(compression)
Hagia Sophia - Answer✔✔-dome, vaults, all open, narrow arched windows
(compression)
Maisons Jaoul
Le Corbusier - Answer✔✔-segmented arches w/ steel bars
(compression)
Colosseum - Answer✔✔-arches, vaults
(compression)
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