LARC 1950 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Villa Savoye, Classical Element, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Landscape Architecture
• Course: LARC 1950
• Professor: N A

Document Summary

More buildings will abstract looks evolving from previous methods to new ways to building. Houses were being built more large and improved: function device to enable properties, villa savoye. Multiple floors with inside and outside space. Modernism evolves around the fact that the man is the center: make everything proportional to the man, no need for really high roofs and massive size rooms and such. New shapes have been involved with industry concrete can now create any shape. Classical element still present in some architecture: domes and symmetry is still there. Mies van der rohe: housing, apartment buildings, farnsworth house. Steel beams that lift up the building and glass wall to divide inside and outside: crown hall. Transparency changes throughout the day and seasons.