Meet the Designers Frank Lloyd Wright Wrights residential designs were Prairie Houses because the design is considered to complement the land around Chicago These houses featured extended low buildings with shallow sloping roofs clean sky lines suppressed chimneys overhangs and terra ID: 795263
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Slide1
Structures
and
Their Designers
Slide2Meet
the Designers
Slide3Frank Lloyd Wright
Wright's residential designs were "Prairie Houses" because the design is considered to complement the land around
Chicago.
These houses featured extended low buildings with shallow, sloping roofs, clean sky lines, suppressed chimneys, overhangs and terraces, using unfinished materials. The houses are credited with being the first examples of the
“open plan.”
The manipulation of interior space in residential and public buildings are hallmarks of his style.
Slide4Greene & Greene
Henry Charles
The Greene’s took on few commercial projects. Their attention to detail would not have been possible in a larger firm, or one that focused on commercial buildings as well as residential. The Greene’s repeatedly turned down offers to construct buildings in downtown Los Angeles. The Greene brothers were masters in their area of domestic concentration for which, until the year of 1948, they received little acclaim. In 1948, they received citations from the Pasadena Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects
and from the national body in 1952 for creating a “new and native architecture.”
Slide5Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier's early work was related to nature, but as his ideas matured, he developed the Maison-Domino, a basic building prototype for mass production with freestanding pillars and rigid floors. In 1917 he settled in Paris where he issued his book Vers une architecture [Towards a New Architecture], based on his earlier articles in L'Esprit Nouveau.
Slide6During his youth, Gaudi suffered many times from the rheumatic fevers that were common at the time. This illness caused him to spend much time in isolation, and it allowed him to spend lots of time alone with nature.
It was this exposure to nature at an early age, which is thought to have inspired him to incorporate natural shapes and themes into his later work.
Gaudi, throughout his life, studied nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs and mosaics. Instead of relying on geometric shapes, he mimicked the way men stand upright. The
hyperboloids
and paraboloids he borrowed from nature were easily reinforced by steel rods and allowed his designs to resemble elements from the environment.
Antonio Gaudí
Slide7Frank
Gehry
Gehry’s style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent with the California ‘funk’ art movement in the 1960s and early 1970s, which featured the use of inexpensive found objects and non-traditional media such as clay to make serious art. Gehry has been called "the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding
".
Slide8I.M. Pei
In terms of style, Pei's work at this time was strongly influenced by Mies van der Rohe. Certainly the apartment towers at Kips Bay and Society Hill owe much to Mies' earlier slab-like skyscrapers sheathed in glass grids. But unlike Mies, who supported his towers with frames of steel, Pei experimented with towers of pre-cast concrete window frames laid on one another like blocks. This system proved to be quick to construct and required no added fireproof lining or exterior sheathing, making it relatively inexpensive. The concrete frames also had the aesthetic advantage of looking "muscular" and permanent. Soon Pei acquired a reputation as a pragmatic, cost-conscious architect who understood the needs of developers and had the ability to produce solid-looking no-nonsense buildings.
Slide9Now it’s time
to play the
GAME!
Slide10The object of the game…….
In front of you are eighteen photographs of structures and six photographs of the designers you just viewed…
You need to match three structures to each designer by writing down the designer number, then under each designer, write down the number of the structure that you think they designed…..
Something like this
Slide11Who am I?
Antonio Gaudí
Casa Batallo
Sagrada Familia
Casa Mìla
Slide12Who am I?
Frank
Gehry
Dancing House, Prague
Frank Gehry House,
Santa Monica
Walt Disney
Concert Hall,
Los Angeles
Slide13Who are
WE
?
Greene & Greene
Henry Charles
Gamble House, Pasadena
Thorsen House,
Berkley
Blacker House, Pasadena
Slide14Who am
I
?
I.M. Pei
JFK Library
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Bank of China Tower
Slide15Who am
I
?
Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye
Centre Le Corbusier
Notre Dame
du Haute
Slide16Frank Lloyd Wright
Who am
I
?
Falling Water
Guggenheim
Museum
Robie House
Slide17How many did you get right??
Slide18Designer
1
2
3
4
5
6
Structure
5
3
1
7
10
2
9
13
6
8
14
4
11
15
18
17
16
12