Materials and Techniques (Building Materials) 15-3-2004
Building Materials — Slide List – 15/03/04
John Ruskin, 1849, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
John Ruskin, 1851-53, The Stones of Venice
Slide 1: Italy, Venice, Renaissance, Doge’s Palace (Palazzo Ducale)
Slide 2: Glasgow, Iron architecture, Shop and Warehouse by John Baird, 1855-(
Slide 3: Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, Porch Design, illustration for Discourses (search Google for image)
Slide 4: Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, Brickwork and iron supports for a hall
Discourses
Glass architecture
Slide 5: Matthew Digby Wyatt, Paddington Station, main arch,
Slide 6: Bruno Taut, Glass Pavilion at Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Slide 7: German Pavilion, International Exhibition, Barcelona, 1929
Slide 8: German Pavilion, Exterior view and ground plan
Slide 9: Chicago, Lake Shore Drive Flats, 1949-51
Slide 10: Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1950-56
Skyscrapers
Slide 11: Daniel Burnham, Flatiron Building, New York, 1902 (New York’s first)
Slide 12: Cass Gilbert, Woolworth Building, 1913.
Reinforced concrete and glass
Slide 13: Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesing East, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1911
Slide 14: Frank Lloyd Wright, ‘Failingwater’, Bear Run, nr. Pittsburgh, 1936-9
Slide 15: Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1955-59
Slide 16: Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Interior 1955-59
Slide 17: Le Corbusier, Skeleton of the Domino House
Slide 18: Le Corbusier, 2 Houses in Auteuil, 1926
High Tech and Plastic
Slide 19: Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1971-7.
Slide 20: Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Pompidou Centre, detail rear.
Postmodern
Slide 21: Robert Venturi, Sainsbury Wing Nat. Gal., 1988-90, facade
Slide 22: Robert Venturi, Sainsbury Wing Nat. Gal., 1988-90, staircase
Slide 23: Robert Venturi, Sainsbury Wing Nat. Gal., 1988-90, glass curtain wall
CAD
Slide 24: Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997
Slide 25: Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997, roof