ARCH 212 1nd EditionFinal Study Guide Lectures: 1-33ARCHITECT: LEON BATTISTA ALBERTITEMPIO MALATESTIANO- located in Rimini, Italy; sponsored by Sigismondo Malatesta; looks like a temple; unfinished exterior façade; tomb on the inside for the Malatesta family; gothic windows on existing buildingARCHITECT: ANDREA PALLADIOVILLA BARBARO- located at Maser; built for Daniele & Marc’ Antonio Barbaro; divides into2 parts: Agriculture and living; interior painting creates architecture illusionARCHITECT: MIMAR SINAN:SELIMIYE MOSQUE OR MOSQUE OF SELIM II- Located in Edirne, Turkey; includes a school, baths, soup kitchens, and a marketplace; Sinan wanted to build the mosque larger than the Hagia Sophia which was originally a Christian church; the dome sits higher than the Hagia Sophia; puts emphasis on squares and circles in the plan; interior: very decorative; creates a unified space with the centered dome; grand façades on each side of the main buildingARCHITECT: FRANCESCO BORROMINISAINT IVO DELLA SAPIENZA- located in Rome; Francesco Borromini finished the building; built for the University of Rome; brick on the exterior with stone columns; dome: helix effect with sphere on top; shows how natural light effects the building; interior: expands from the ground plan; changes idea about weight/support; carves out apse like spaces on the exterior; layers of masonry to create curves; Interior: crisp lines on triangle connection to curvature that leads up to the dome; building doesn’t have regular geometryCULTURAL CATEGORY: EDO JAPANDRY GARDEN OF RYOAN-JI MONASTERY- located at Kyoto; man-made garden; part of Zen Buddishm architecture; A kare sansui garden; puts you in a mountain like environment; looks unregulated but is very organized; the sand is ranked every day; garden without plants; composed idea of limitless; purity and strong sense of the void; Interior: screens that open up or close off roomsARCHITECT: GIAMBATTISTA PIRANESILION BAS-RELIEFS from the CARCERI SERIES- Relief painting; abstract; gives the illusion oflimitlessARCHITECT: E’TIENNE-LOUIS BOULLEECENOTAPH PROPOSAL HONORING ISSAC NEWTON- Large corridor that leads into the spherical space; sphere interior- holes that allow sunlight to give the impression of stars in thenight sky; elevated off the ground; gives the sense of being immersed into outer space; theme: Knowledge/Knowledge in architect, darkness and its role in light, sublime*, grand scaleROYAL LIBRAY PROPOSAL-located in Paris (unbuilt); Barrel vaulting ceiling in a long basilica; amphitheater on the sides where the books are located; “Theater of Knowledge”; large,impractical, grandioseARCHITECT: SIR JOHN SOANEHOUSE AT LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS or SIR JOHN SOANE MUSEUM- located in London; Located in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, England; living space is more in the front the townhouse; features a collection of antiquities and architecture forms; interior: flat/elevated domes for ceilings; maze-like interiorBANK OF ENGLAND- located in London; Big bank institution; intended to be modern, new typology*; the beginning of issuing public bonds and other public financing; includes many pendentives*; each room has its own variety/experienceARCHITECT: GEORGE DANCE THE YOUNGERNEWGATE PRISON- located in London; Central block for administrative (only block with windows); pediment niches with sculptors that represent values of the law; other two blocks have no windows; late gothic style for fortifying; no longer standingARCHITECT: ABRAHAM DARBYSEVERN RIVER BRIDGE- located in Coalbrookdale, U.K., has an ogee arch*, iron/cast iron bridge, greater degree of compressive strength, industrial infrastructure, exposes the framework, vision of the iron frameworkARCHITECT: GEORGE GILBERT SCOTTST. PANCRAS STATION- Located in London, U.K, arched trusses create a basilica (iron and glass), very open; allows air to move through (open on one end), covers the tracks, building nextto tracks(station), designed like a hotel for travelers, grandiose, bringing together the old & new architectureARCHITECT: JOSEPH PAXTONCRYSTRAL PALACE- Located in London, U.K, 1851 as rebuilt and enlarged in Sydenham Park in 1854; burnt in 1936, “World Trade” exhibition event- show mechanic industry, made for iron and glass that can be assembled and reassembled, construction: parts are all mass produced, designed the parts to be easily put together, lack of site specifics, new order of architecture, building expresses the thinness of the walls & allows a lot of lightARCHITECT: VICTOR BALTARDLES HALLES MARKET- Located in Paris; Market for food; domed area sells wheat; Doesn’t have closed off walls; Arcades on the inside and outside; Very busy; merchandise everywhere; Open to vehicles and horses; Idea of commercialized city and greenhouse coverings; Cleaning up the city/street; Covered with iron/glassPLANNER/URBAN DESIGNER: GEORGES HAUSSMANNURBAN PLAN OF PARIS- ideal city network; Brought health/Social order; Short building heights to allow light in the streets; Improvement of air flow; Sewage drain system (underground); regulated tree line; very regulated buildings: sloped roofs, particular balcony length/width, building height/width/length; covered walkways (porticos/arcades); idea of creative destruction; Tore down old Medieval streets and buildings to modernize city; long straight avenues that link up to train stations (ex. Boulevard Sebastopol)CULTURAL CATEGORY: ANASAZIMESA VERDE- Apart of the Anasazi culture; built on the side of a cliff; link to earth/nature; embedded in the earth; some cyclical towers, some remains of kiva foundations, rectangular buildings; considered the most developed of the Anasazi cultureCULTURAL CATEGORY: MISSISSIPPIANNATCHEZ GRAND VILLAGE- Located in Natchez, Mississippi; mound tradition that Hectreflexes the pyramids; some mounds are shaped/arranged to look like animals (snakes, bears, etc.); the central mound was for the chief/ruler (Great Sun)ARCHITECT: THOMAS JEFFERSONMONTICELLO- Located in Charlottesville, VA; Includes a working farm; Emphasis on the beauty and value of nature; Idea of creating productive almost interpretive building; Serpent path around the house and through the garden; Arrangement of the site with the landscape in relation to Palladio’s Villa Rotunda; Interesting axis through site and main house, On top of a hill, Position of the house; Plan: has two facades and a cross axis that divides the house into foursections; The dome is the focal point of
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