These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I. Structures A. Imperial Hotel B. Barnsdall House C. Millard House D. Ennis House E. Taliesin F. Taliesin III G. Taliesin West H. Jacobs First Residence I. Mile High Illinois Skyscraper J. Marin County Civic Center K. Falling Water L. Johnson Wax Administration Center M. Guggenheim Museum N. Gordon Strong Automobile II. Concrete Block Houses III. Usonian Houses IV. Broad Are City Outline of Current Lecture I. About Alvaro Aalta II. Projects A. Viipuri Public Library B. Tuberculosis Sanatorium C. Villa Mairea D. Baker House student dormitory MIT E. Säynätsalo Town Hall III. Furniture Current Lecture Alvaro Aalto I. About Alvaro Aalto - Types of Art Constructed: Architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware - His Modernism attuned to the natural and social conditions of the North ARCH 350- Karelian architecture: A pure forest settlement architecture in which wood dominates almost 100% as materials and jointing method Style: - Nordic Classicism of his early work - Rational International Modernism during the 1930s to a more - Organic Modernist style from the 1940s onwards II. Projects A. Viipuri Public Library - Competition project - First manifestations of Regional Modernism - Rooms lit indirectly all times, sun and spot light bouncing walls - Paid attention to acoustical properties of the building as well: Isolating reading rooms from traffic outside - Equipped rectangular lecture hall with undulating ceiling reflectors for the whole of its length B. Tuberculosis Sanatorium - To maximize sunlight, patient rooms were facing Southwest - Since the Finnish landscape is too flat, the roof was used as a terrace with a great view - Sun Space Greenery - Plan functionally zoned - Source of heat in ceiling C. Villa Mairea - Built for Maire and Harry Gullichsen, wealthy and cultured clients, on a rural site in western Finland - Aalto achieved the masterwork of his pre-war career - summer house - plan is a modified L-shape, a layout which automatically created a semi private enclosure to one side - explored different states of wood - house was organized as a series of layers with metaphorical structural themes D. Baker House student dormitory MIT - Concept: creating considerable variety in the rooms and allowed diagonal views up and down the river - Great sculptural vitality- Serpentine spine: creating considerable variety in the rooms and allowed diagonal views up and down the rive - contrast in geometry was reinforced by contrasts in material between the horizontal - overing concrete and stone-clad roofs of the lounge/dining room area - Prominent diagonal lines of the staircases E. Säynätsalo Town Hall - ground level there were shops which could be transformed into government offices once the need arose - some variation of fenestration and texture was employed to articulate the different sides of the building - wooden-slatted windows and balconies were set off against predominant rough red-brick surfaces - he showed that brick could be an acceptably modern material - fan shape timber trusses and Cave like feeling in the stairs III. Furniture - Curved laminated birch
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