Class 5 - Chicago & the beginning of the skyscraper

Class 5

Chicago at the turn of the Century, Development of the Skyscraper

• Jenney
• Burnham and Root – Monadnock Block
• H H Richardson - Marshall Field Store
• Adler and Sullivan – Auditorium Building, Chicago Stock Exchange
• Sullivan – Form Follows Function - Questions of Ornamentation – Wainwright Building, Guaranty Building

Slideshow:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDA1NTg1MzI2ODM2MzkwMzQxNzYBMTY1NjcyOTgzMjg4MDg4OTIzNDMBNjUyYTQ1MDgtMWE4YS00NjQyLWI3ZTYtN2Y0OTI0YjNkYjUxQGdvb2dsZWdyb3Vwcy5jb20BNAE&authuser=0

Class 4 - Arts & Crafts Movement

Class 4

Opposition to Industrialization; Arts and Crafts Movement

·         Theories of Ruskin and Morris

·         Phillip Webb – Red House

·         Later theories of Morris, Guild Ideology

·         Bedford Park; Church of St Michael – Norman Shaw

·         Garden City Movement

Introduction to Chicago; Adler & Sullivan’s Auditorium Building

Slideshow:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDA1NTg1MzI2ODM2MzkwMzQxNzYBMTYwNTA3ODI1NDY3MTA3OTU2NjkBMDFmZDdlZTItN2QzZS00ZmRhLWI3MmYtNzE3MmUxMDk3NmU1QGdvb2dsZWdyb3Vwcy5jb20BNAE&authuser=0

Class 3 - Urban Transformation & Planning/ Technical Innovation & Exhibitions

Class 3

Urban Design and town planning developments

Growth in European and American cities, proposals for Utopian towns

•       Haussman’s Plan for Paris
•       Vienna Ringstrasse
•       Chicago

Industrialization and structural engineering- Development of cable bridges, viaducts and framed structures.

Exhibitions in London and Paris:

o    Crystal Palace – Joseph  Paxton

o    Galerie Des Machines 1862 – Gustave Eiffel

o    Galerie Des Machines 1889 – Victor Contamin

o    Eiffel Tower – Eiffel

·         Monier’s Flowerpots – 1850

·         Hennebique – 1873

·         Max Berg – Jahrhunderthalle

·         Maillart Bridges

Slideshow:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDA1NTg1MzI2ODM2MzkwMzQxNzYBMDQ4NTAxOTQzNTA1NzcxNzQ1MTkBNWMwNmI5ODYtNGYwOC00YmM0LTlkZWMtODBjMjMzZWYzYWVkQGdvb2dsZWdyb3Vwcy5jb20BNAE&authuser=0

eRelevant links:

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/architecture/Haussmanns-Architectural-Paris.html

http://www.unimelb.edu.au/culturalcollections/research/libraryjournal/vol2no2/adcock.pdf

http://architectural-engineering.blogspot.in/2007/07/galerie-des-machines-gallery-of.html

http://architectural-engineering.blogspot.in/2007/07/galerie-des-machines-gallery-of.html

Class 2 - Neoclassicism

Class 2

Neoclassical Architecture- re-examination of Antiquity; English, French and German branches of neo-classicism. Romantic neoclassicists and structural neo-classicists. Important architects and their works/concepts:

·         Laugier- Primitive Hut

·         Soufflot – Church of St. Genevieve

·         Boullee – Newton’s cenotaph

·         Ledoux –Royal Saltworks

·         Schinkel – Altes Museum

·         Labrouste – Bibliotheque St. Genevieve

SSlideshow: 

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDA1NTg1MzI2ODM2MzkwMzQxNzYBMTc4NDAxOTcyMzU2NzE4NjIzODEBNjg3NTg2NTEtNTY2YS00YzBmLTllYWYtNzFlOTU1OGQ1MTIyQGdvb2dsZWdyb3Vwcy5jb20BNAE&authuser=0

dRelevant Links:

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/treasuresofheaven/shrines/Paris/index.php

http://biography.staging.yourdictionary.com/pierre-francois-henri-labrouste

Timeline of Modern Architecture

A couple of Timelines of Modern Architecture - will give you a brief idea of the place of the buildings/movements you will study in the larger scheme of things.

http://timerime.com/en/timeline/997369/Development+of+Modern+Architecture/

http://www.greatbuildings.com/times/dates/1800_to_1899.html

http://www.greatbuildings.com/times/dates/1900_to_1999.html

Class 1 - Recap & Introduction

Class 1 - 4th July

Topics covered:

What is modernism? Origins & development, industrialization & Industrial Revolution; historical background. Introduction to neo-classical architecture.

Slideshow used in Class:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDA1NTg1MzI2ODM2MzkwMzQxNzYBMTQzNjcyNDY0MDI1ODUwMzMyMDEBNDYxNTcxNzAtNTYyNi00ZGMwLTgyNTgtZWQ1NDQ1NjZkMzUxQGdvb2dsZWdyb3Vwcy5jb20BNAE&authuser=0

Initial Notes:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDA1NTg1MzI2ODM2MzkwMzQxNzYBMTQzNjcyNDY0MDI1ODUwMzMyMDEBOTlhMzA5Y2EtODM0Yy00YjM3LThhODktNDQ5NDg3ZGQ0ZDBmQGdvb2dsZWdyb3Vwcy5jb20BNAE&authuser=0