ARC342H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Stainless Steel, John Wellborn Root, Textile Block House
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Frank lloyd wright and the text-tile tectonic two architects disseminated semper"s views = german fredrick baumann and american john wellborn root. Baumann wasn"t the only one to introduce semper to chicago architecture. John root"s translation showed the specialization of terra- cotta. Sullivan regarded these rough-cut, tinted, pressed brick as textile. Wright = textile block system in 1927. Buildings could be lightly fabricated, complete of mono-materials woven into a pattern/design for the first time. Sulivan showed these series of simple shapes (circle, triangle and square) that could be used to make complex forms: it was later regarded as a way to show cosmological faith. Sullivan saw creativity as a manifestation of divinity. Building close to painting and sculpture; later, it goes away from that into an antique -> where the building is now a creation of interior space in light. Kieran timberlake = refabricating architecture people trying to convert architecture into a commodity: le corbusier trying out mass-producing housing models.
