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name, date and factsPantheon, Rome 500BC-476AD (Roman period) -Transformed from a pagan church with multiple gods (polytheistic) to a Christian space. -use thick concrete (invented in those times) walls to support the dome, on top is an oculus -it's part of the canon of architecture
Name, date and notesThe annunciation triptych- Robert Campin, 1428 (Medieval period) -showing a biblical story -shown how people inhabited spaces in those times: people commonly sat on the ground
Name, date and notesThree Graces (Greco Roman period) -very typical for this time -not completely naturally depicted -primarly a pagan time period (polytheistic)
Name, date and notesThree Graces (Medieval period) -very religious period (god is all-knowing all being) -believed that man and women could not understand the world, so everything that we did was to support religion and god. -they are not nude, as they are shameful -not naturalistic and realistic -side profile (passive) because they have no power or authority
Name, date and notesThree Graces (Renaissance period) -birth of man and women and that man had the ability to reason -questioning man and religion and God -return to realism
Name, date and notesThree Graces (Contemporary) -very abstract and conceptual
Name, date and notesRed Robin Diner, 1930's -Art Deco, Streamline Modern -metalic materiality, red speed strips denoting travel and speed of that time -social-cultural context: it was after WW1 and a lot of women had to go work so they could not cook so families went to diners, but before that diners were only inhabited by men because it was believed it wasn't ladylike for women to sit on the swirl stools -an introduction of the booth
Name, date and notesLe Corbusier (1886-1965) -star-architect -Modular Man- depiction of male for in the built environment -gifted cubist painter
Name, date and notesVilla Savoye, Le Corbusier, 1928-31 -hallmark of the beginnings of modern architecture -use of white concrete, plain facade and rectilinear- characteristics of modernism -5 points of architecture (designing a house as a machine for living) -
Name, date and notesVilla Savoye Kitchen -industrial and simple
Name, date and notesEileen Gray (1878-1976) -designer and architect -opened a studio "Jean Desert"
Name, date and notesE 1027 House, Eileen Gray, 1926-29, France - similar to Villa Savoye
Name, date and notesLe Cabanon -where Le Corbusier died
Name, date and notesPruitt- Igoe, 1950's, St Louis-America -33 towers with 11 stories each for primarily African-American people -less than 20 years later (1972), came "The Death of Modernism" because it was public housing that went wrong -"skip and stop elevators"- were used to cut costs, they would stop on the 1,4,7 and 10th floor, which meant others had to walk
Name, date and notesModel of Insula, 64AD, Roman period -apartment block -plumbing only went up to the 3rd level so the poor lived on the higher levels -because there were lots of fires, safety codes were then developed -
Name, date and notesBauhaus (1919-1933) -table lamp -famous design school in the world
Name, date and notesNauhaus Workshop Building- Walter Gropius -flat roof, modern materials, and rectilinear facade
Name, date and notesBauhaus student apartment, Walter Gropius
Nmae, date and notesVitruvius man- Leonardo Da Vinci -Italian renaissance (1450-1660) -similar to le Corbusiers Modular Man -talks about the scale of the human body
Name date and notesVilla Barbaro, Andrea Palladio, Italy, 1560-1570 -renaissance was about symmetry -long vistas gave a sense of power -in the interior they would fake the symmetry, so they would paint for example a door if there was no door on the other side
Name, date and notesPalazzo Ducale -Renaissance period -typology of space,Studiolo: the mans office -everything is an illusion of symmetry -ornamentation in renaissance becomes power
Name, date and notes-Karmin Rashid; garbo -his work is about consumption -he uses recycled plastics -mainly does commercial design
name, date and notesnHow, berlin 2010 -Karmin Rashid -blobyism -his work has visual consumption
name, date and notesMyHotel concept room, Brighton -Karmin Rashid
name, date and notesMy Pad Paddington room concept -Karmin Rashid
Nam4e, date and notesShakers -1760- present "singing meeting" - new Lebanon village -Christian sect, migrated from England -men and women were separated -all men and women dressed the same -no electricity, they live of the land
Name, date and notesShaker village/ urban planning -Alred village -all of their towns looked the same as they were dictated how they would look -white buildings for gathering, red for working -Canterbury Village
Name, date and notesRetiring room in Shakers -one hanger, it was known what items you were allowed to have -everything is given up, and you get one drawer because they were anti-consumers
Name, date and timeShaker cemetery in Hardvard Village -they die as equals hence the same headstone.
Name, date and notesVietnam war memorial, Washington, 1982 -maya Lin
Name, date and notesAustralian National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres straight Islander Studies, Canberra ARM -takes motif from Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye -postmodernism style
Name, date and notesARCHIGRAM -living pod