Week #2 Architects Assignment #1

Video Notes: Notable Architects

Van der Rohe
          - used stone, steal, glass
          - allowed light into his structures
           - 50-60 years ago
Shin Takamatsu
          - original
          - xxertiors are powerful and look like mechanical engines
          - Japenese
Andrea Palladio
          - Italian Renasaince
          - symmetry and proportion
          - clarity
          - Greek and Roman style
Etienne Louis Boulee
          - Greeks and Romans
          - symmetry
          - organization
          - visionary
          - beggining of modernism
          - 18th Century
Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
         - unconventional
         - rethinking everything about standard ideas
         - used concrete
Frank Furness (1839-1912)
         - pioneered Victorian ideas
         - made different ideas
         - a lot of his work was demolished
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
         - over 1000 commisions
         - organic and detail
Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)
         - Spanish
         - didn't use traditional lines or forms
         - botanical and geological relations (nature)
Tadao Ando (1950-present)
         - work was bold, serious, thoughtful, and detailed
         - used water, concrete, and light
Coop Himmelbau- group of people
         - deconstructionism- building looks as if taken apart and reassembled incorrectly
         - unique projects
         - very influential

My Favorite Architects:

1. Frank Flloyd Wright- I really like the architecture he mixes in with nature, especially the low houses by the waterfalls and surrounded by trees.
2. Van der Rohe- I like how modern his project look and the amount of glass he uses makes it look very welcoming to me.
3. Coop Himmelbau- The whole deconstruction idea is brilliant to me, it is a strange concept, but it looks great. I would love to work in some of the buildings they have built over the years.