ARTH-UA 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Equitable Life Building (Manhattan), Marshall Field'S Wholesale Store, Beaux-Arts Architecture
18 Jan 2017
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Richardson, marshall field wholesale store, chicago, 1885-87: no explicit reference to historical elements, plays with fenestrations for rhythm and counter rhythms, no reference to some revival. This is very much from the lessons of the ecole: painting beside it suggests enclosure, shelter. It is also a lesson of the ecole: violet-le-duc looked at issues of structure and new materials that might lead to new programs in the modern world. Round arch roman systems combined with gothic systems. Josiah cady, american museum of natural history, 1877: romanesque is seen as a way to represent the roles of these buildings (heavy, public museum, factories, new programs that carry an importance) Richardson, trinity churhc, boston, 1873-77: neo-romanesque, craft of laying out the stone gives a historical quality, volumetric quality of expressing the plan. We can see the different parts of the church. You can articulate on the exterior the envelope of the plan: designing from the outside in.
