STUDY GUIDE 2
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The Art of Abstraction
Elkins Park (Pa): Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1956-59
For a New York Times article about recent clashes at the former Temple of Solomon site, click here
For the official website of the Beth Sholom congregation, click here
For comparison read about, Richard Meier's 2003 Jubilee church in Rome
Isfahan (Iran): Masjid-i-Shah, 1611-38
Jerusalem (Isr): Dome of the Rock (7thC)
June 2007 news report about attacks on Iraqi mosques
For a contemporary museum by that draws upon Islamic traditions see I.M. Pei's Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar
November 2009 NYT article on Swiss vote to ban construction of minarets
Illustration from Nizami's Khamsa (Five Poems), 1539-43 representating the Prophet Muhammed's Night Journey to Jerusalem
Buddhist Borobudur and Hindu India
Borobudur (Java, Indonesia): Buddhist Temple, 760-830
http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/boro_nav/main_borofrm.html
Khajuraho (India): Kandariya Mahadeva, c. 1000
Click here for a diagram of the Hindu temple
- Hinduism
- Candella dynasty
- Shiva
- formless, subtle body, gross body states of being
- Mt. Kailasa
- plinth
- sikhara
- mandapa
- garbhagriha
- Tantric doctrine
- mithuna
- linga
- corbeled arch
- chajja
APPROACHES TO DWELLING
Home, Sweet Home: House Machine and American Dream
Santa Monica: Gehry House (Frank Gehry, 1975)
cf. Elciego, (Alava) Spain: Hotel Marques de Riscal (Gehry, 2006)
Poissy (France): Villa Savoye (Le Corbusier, 1929)
- reinforced concrete
- Maison Dom-ino
- 5 points of a new architecture (fr. Morel-Journel, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, Paris, 1998)
- pilotis, roof garden, free plan, free facade, strip window
- promenade architecturale
- "grass is a wonderful thing, and so is the forest , we shall interfere with them as little as possible . . . "
- "the house is a machine for living in"
- "architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light"
- "the business of architecture is to establish emotional relationships by means of raw materials
- Le Corbusier's description of Villa Savoye (Morel-Journel)
- passive solar orientation (over-ridden by view)
Bear Run (PA): Fallingwater (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1937)
- Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
- pier
- organic architecture
- "as organically true to itself as any tree or flower"
- "I want you to live with the waterfall"
- material: locally quarried Pottsville sandstone
- orientation: sited on south facing slope, main spaces face S/SE
Fallingwater official website, Western Pennsylvania concervancy
FLW's bold colors! New York Times, 6/28/09
Bolender travel photos of Fallingwater
