ARCH&UD 10B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Joseph Paxton, Henri Labrouste, Wainwright Building

• School: UCLA
• Department: Architecture and Urban Design
• Course: ARCH&UD 10B
• Professor: sebastianafabbrini

Document Summary

Form follows function - form forever follows function". Father of skyscrapers (manifestation of technology is the us) Responds to new function ( no longer secular and religious) Building has a pattern and treats it as a machine. Changed england forever, allows materials to be transported throughout the country. Construction of buildings cannot take a long time because the population was growing in the background. Emphasized iron into as a decoration and not only as structural usage. Secular building with no intention of including the hierarchical. Designed the public library with greek style. Repetition showed that there was uniform experience within the entire library, there was no emphasis on a single part. Everyone has the same access in the same area. Create temporary structures that allowed for the objects inside. Emphasis on the skeleton of the building instead of the facade. First exhibition where you could present products. Objects are being introduced with new aesthetics.