JAV131H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rod Robbie, Eero Saarinen, Arata Isozaki
31 Oct 2016
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Parti(cid:272)ular for(cid:373) of (cid:373)oder(cid:374) ar(cid:272)hite(cid:272)ture i(cid:374) the (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s. Label for all modern architecture in the 50s/60s that apparently evolved out of this prewar modern architecture. 1960s: city hall hamilton stanley roscoe, rotman school of management kpmb. All architecture since the late 19th century. Specific style of the 1920s: white walls, flat roof, open spaces. 1925 1950; modernism went from radical to very mainstream. Two towering figures: le corbusier (abstract massiveness) vs. mies van der rohe (rectangular simplicity) International style dispersed into two forms sculptural/complex forms vs rectangular/minimal forms. Rectangular/minimal mies (cid:448)a(cid:374) der ohe says (cid:862)less is (cid:373)ore(cid:863) Seagram building ny, 1958 (one of the most important buildings of the 20th century) Lakeshore drive apartment towers chicago 1948-51. Case study house #22 pierre koenig, la 1960. Rose seidler house harry seidler, sidney 1949-50 open kitchen idea for the first time, bright colors. Sas hotel arne jacobsen, copenhagen 1960.
