JAV131H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye
9 Mar 2018
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Intro to arch: last lec: 1850 urban planning of new york, paris, barcelona, vienna, steel and reinforced concrete, new arch. Of the skyscraper: 1900- art nouveau and search for a new style. Isms: the avant-garde movements of the 1910s and 1920: alison and peter smithson, the heroic period of modern arch. 1981: things rapidly evolved new innovations, 1926 bauhaus, dessau, 1927 weissenhofsiedlung, stuttgart, 1928 ciam, la sarraz international congress of modern arch. Walter gropius bauhaus, dessau, 1926: director of bauhaus - important school that closed, uses open corners transparent and glass. A building should have pillars not walls (pilotis: 2. Free plan pillars can create divisions: 4. Free elevation have wide and long windows: 5. Horizontal strip windows are preferred over other ones: le corbusier, five points, towards an arch (book), 1923, made villa savoye, poissy, 1928-9, made plan voisin, 1925 -, uses warm saturated colours.
