ARC253H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Lafayette Park, Detroit, Ludwig Hilberseimer
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For each project: describe the physical/spatial/formal design of the project. Practices transforming with introduction of new tools and new modes of practice. Ex old allegorical maps progressing to more advanced measuring techniques, Known more for the advancement of knowledge, not just tools. Analytical empirical thinking replace blind faith etc. Advancement of tools = idea that we can calculate our way out of anything. If things were guesswork before product of imagination. Idea of urbanization: whole land: the idea of regardless of buildings or dense cities, we have organized the, barely places on earth that haven(cid:495)t been charted, divided, delineated, eve if its natural looking is it still man made. The city is sick and needs to be healed. All these guys work start with empirical / analytical. Also ppl who(cid:495)s ideas come first from their imagination from observation, these 3 guys don(cid:495)t seem like this at first. Like jeffersonian grid at size of city.
