AHS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, Villa Savoye
7 Oct 2016
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Art history 9/26: media and processes: architecture 2; the tradition of craft 1. Gothic architecture construction, showing flying buttresses: very dark, stained glass. Chartres cathedreal, chartres, france: dark inside because of stained glass windows, need flying buttresses to support, higher walls to build taller buildings, each flying buttress is super heavy, good condition still. First one collapsed: church becomes a visual representation of christian beliefs, mosaic. Horyu-ji (horyu temple) 7th century: post-and-beam achitecure, similar to post and lintel but that is made out of stone. Louis sullivan, wainwright building: not until 19th century, concrete, not post-and-beam, you can make is as tall as post-and-beam though, allows modern architect to open up the wall, modern architecture, the first use of lots of glass. La corbusier, villa savoye: using idea of cantilever-coming out and has no support underneath, using columns, paristyle that goes all the way around, there shouldn"t be any relationship between structure and its surroundings , modern.
