Discuss the roles that modern architecture of the Americas have played in the liberation from colonialism and/or dependence on imported ideas and values. To support your answer, discu
Discuss the roles that modern architecture of the Americas have played in the liberation from colonialism and/or dependence on imported ideas and values. To support your answer, discuss three works. Select one work from each of the following periods: 1960s-1970s, 1940s,1950s, 1920s-1930s. At least one work must be located in Latin America. Fully identify each work (name of architect, location of building, date of construction). Incorporate pertinent discussion assignment readings.
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American Architecture: The Evolving Modern House
R.M. Schinder, Schinder/Chace House, West Hollywood, 1921
Richard J. Neutra, Lovell Health House, Los Angeles, 1927-29
“L.A. Confidential,” 1997
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Postmodernism & Deconstructivism
Stylistic Designations or Useful Commentaries
Postmodernism – Search for context
Stanley Tigerman, The Titanic, 1978
Mies van der Rohe, Crown Hall, IIT, Chicago, 1956
Andy Warhol Campell’s Soup
Can, 1962
Claes Oldenburg, Floor Burger, 1962
Edward Ruscha, Every Building on Sunset Strip, 1966
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, 1966
Learning from Las Vegas (1972)
“Signs of Life: Symbols in the American City” Smithsonian Institutions, 1976
Robert Venturi, Guild House, Philadelphia, 1961
Robert Venturi, Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, PA, 1966
Stanford White, designer, Henry Hobson Richardson, Watts- Sherman House, 1874-75
Charles Moore House, Charles Moore, Orinda, 1962
Charles Moore, Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, 1978
Frank Gehry, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 1979
Michael Graves, Library, San Juan Capistrano, CA 1982
Contextualism as an Urban Design Strategy
New Urbanism: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andreas Duany, Seaside, FL, 1978-83
Adaptive Reuse:
Fanueil Hall/Quincy Market. Fanueil Hall,
Smibert, ca.1740; Quincy Market, Paris, 1825; rehabilitation,
Benjamin Thompson, 1976-78
Building with Nature
Edward Larrabee Barnes, Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, begun 1959
Edward Larrabee Barnes, Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, begun 1959
MLTW (Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull & Whitaker), Condominium One, Sea Ranch, Sonoma County, CA, 1963-65
Return to the Architectural Language of Modernism
New York Five: Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, Richard
Meier and John Hejduk (absent), ca. 1969
Richard Meier, Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Michigan, 1973
Le Corbusier, Villa Stein, Les Garches, 1926
Richard Meier and Associates, Getty Center, Los Angeles, 1997
Peter Eisenman, House II (Falk House), Hardwick, Vermont, 1969-70
Deconstructivist Architecture “Identifying the Symptoms of
Repressed Impurity,” Mark Wigley
Russian Constructivism Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism with Eight Red Rectangles, 1915
1915
Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the Third International, 1919 (model)
Frank Gehry, Gehry House, Santa Monica, begun 1976
Konstantin Melnikov, USSR Pavilion, Exposition des arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1925
Latin American Versions
of Post Modernism
Luis Barragan, Egerstrom Stables, Los Clubes, State of Mexico, 1967-68
Luis Barragan, Barragan House, Tacubaya, Mexico City, 1947
Lina Bo Bardi, SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1985
Lina Bo Bardi, Casa de Vidro (Glass House), Sao Paulo, 1951
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Architecture of the America’s Since 2000
The Changing American Landscape
Public Buildings as Targets for Government Protest January 6, 2021 Insurrection on the U.S. Capitol
(begun ca.1792)
January 9, 2023 Attack on National Congress, Brasilia (Oscar Niemeyer, National Congress, Brasilia, 1958)
Presidential Palace (Palácio do Planalto), Brasilia, (Oscar Niemeyer, 1960)
Housing Challenges: Looking at Los Angeles Density:
Barbara Bestor, Black Birds, Los Angeles, 2015
Homelessness: Michael Maltzan, New Carver Apartments, Los Angeles, 2009;
RE-THINKING TRADITIONAL TYPOLOGIES
OMA, Seattle Central Library, Seattle, WA, 2004
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPERATIVES
Renzo Piano Building Workshop, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 2008
MUSEUM AS CULTURAL EXPRESSION
David Adjaye, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., 2016
South Carolina Slave Cabin, early 1800s
De Young Museum, Herzog & DeMeuron, 2005
Frank Gehry Associates, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1997
Frank Gehry, architect; Yasuhisa Toyota, acoustical consultant, Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 2003
ADAPTIVE REUSE/EXTENDED USE
James Corner Operations, landscape architect; Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Highline, New York,
begun 2009
Latin American Architecture ca. 2000
Public Spaces and Public Good
Mesa and Bernal (Plan B) and Camilo and J. Paul Restrep, Orquideorama, Medellin, Columbia, 2006
Taller|Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Mexico City, 1999-2000
Alberto Kalach, GGG House, Mexico City, 2000
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Postwar Modernism
Nagasaki Bomb, August 9, 1945
Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-50
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German Pavilion, Barcelona, 1929
Mies van der Rohe: Left: Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-50
Right: German Pavilion, Barcelona, 1929
Mies van der Rohe, Lakeshore Drive
Apartments, Chicago, 1948-51
Mies van der Rohe, Project for a Glass Skyscraper,
1922
Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York, 1954-58
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Lever House, New York, 1950-52
New York City building boom, view from 1970s
Philip Johnson, Johnson House (“Glass House”), New Canaan, CT, 1949
Left: Philip Johnson, Johnson House (“Glass House”), New Canaan, CT, 1949 Right: Mies van der Rohe, Edith
Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-50
Levittown, New York, begun 1947, 6,000 houses, plus other amenities
Charles and Rae Eames, Eames House (Case Study House #8), Pacific Palisades, 1949
Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1956-59
Frank Lloyd Wright, V.C. Morris Store, Maiden Lane, San Francisco, 1948
Guggenheim Museum, Addition, Gwathmey Siegal
New York, 1992
Alvar Aalto, Baker House, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1949
Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio Aalto, Finnish Pavilion, New York World’s Fair, 1939
Eero Saarinen with Amman and Whitney, Structural Engineers, TWA Terminal, New York City, 1962
Louis I Kahn, Richards Medical Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1957-60
Wilson Eyre, Cope & Stewardson, et. al., Penn Museum (originally Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology), University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1899
Louis I Kahn, Salk Institute, La Jolla, 1962-63
Anshen & Allen, Salk Institute Addition, completed 1996
Paul Rudolph, Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.,1958-1964
Le Corbusier, La Tourette Monastery, near Lyons, France, 1953-1961
Carl Maston, Environmental Design Building (Building 7), Cal Poly. Pomona, 1971-72. Photos by Wayne Thom
Brasilia, Capital of Brazil
Oscar Niemeyer: Plaza of the Three Powers (left: Supreme Court, center: National Congress, right: Presidential Palace),
Oscar Niemeyer, National Congress, Brasilia, 1958
Oscar Niemeyer, Presidential Palace (Palácio do Planalto), Brasilia, 1960
Oscar Niemeyer, Foreign Relations Ministry (Itamaraty Palace), Brasilia, 1960
Oscar Niemeyer, Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, Brasilia, 1959- 70
Brasilia Super Blocks
Felix Candela, Church of our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Mexico City, 1953
Enrique Molinar,Mario Pani, Carlos Lazo and others, Universida Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, begun 1946
Juan O’Gorman and Gustavo Saavedra, Juan Martinez de Velasco, University Library, University of Mexico, Mexico City, 1950-53
South façade: Colonial Times
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