ARTH 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hart Massey, Kenneth Frampton, Expo 67
19 Dec 2016
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Modernism, as it effects other sites within canada . City hall (ottawa rother, bland and trudeau 1960) Lobby area is a gleaming white marble (impressing incomers immediately with its elegance) House in relation to setting; it would be better darker to blend with the rapour of trees. So forward looking it earned a prize for it"s engagement with the modern aesthetic. Four projecting elements advantage: maximum natural light. Largest oor space of any building in the world at the time. Idea of setting back the glass facade at street level, a sense of volumetric quality. Cast in place concrete panels suspended from reinforced concrete frame. The sense of what canada was before expo 67" and what it became afterwards, there was a grand focus on the idea of a national vision that emerges from expo 67". Series of walkways linking all structures (similar to unite d"habitation)
