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STUDY GUIDE 3

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For Exam 3, please be familiar with all buildings and terms below that are not grayed out
Complete OIV's for these sessions are on our Blackboard site in a folder called OIV's, including a compilation called "Exam 3 Review." All images used during the test will be taken from the Exam 3 Review OIV.
Exam will consist of essays focusing on aspects of the buildings that we have emphasized in class, and terminology definitions. For essays, please pay attention to text statements we have analyzed in class, and which appear in the Exam 3 Review OIV
as before, weblinks provided below are for your information and interest, you will not be tested on them.
Please check My Grades on Blackboard in the next few days. If you items you turned in are not graded, please let me know by email. If you wish to submit missing Reading Responses for partial credit, you may do so by Wednesday May 11. There were 7 reading responses, each is worth 5 points.

House and Garden in Japan

Kyoto: Katsura Imperial Villa, 17thC

O'Hara (nr. Kyoto): Hosen-in, 17thC

no particular building will be emphasized for the Japanese house, but please know these principles and terms:

architecture of floor not wall
permeable relationship between house and garden;
natural materials in their natural state,
aesthetic of spareness

shoji
fusuma
amado
tatami
engawa
sukiya
shoin
tokonoma
staggered shelves
writing alcove
decorative doors
stroll garden
http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/kyoto/katsuraindex.htm (for Katsura views and model)

Miyamoto House on Okinawa Island

Japanese firm Sejima and Nishizawa wins 2010 Pritzker Prize

Shiguru Ban designs emergency shelters for March 2011 earthquake victims

The Villa in Italy and America

Vicenza (It): Villa Rotunda (Andrea Palladio, 1550s)

villa
Renaissance
symmetry, bilateral and radial
Vitruvian man
I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura
dome
portico

Charlottesville (Va): Monticello II (Thomas Jefferson, 1796-1809)

neo-classical
court and garden
triple-sash window
representation: "portrait of the patriarch" (from Dell Upton reading on Monticello)
"a man out of a book"
indoor/outdoor families

Notes on the State of Virgina, 1781-83, pp. 263-7

Maira Kalman Monticello/Jefferson pictorial, "Time Wastes too Fast," NYT, 6/25/09
http://www.monticello.org/index.html

SCENARIOS OF POWER: THE SPATIALIZATION OF RULE

Captains of Industry: The Corporate Skyscraper

NYC: Western Union ( G. B. Post, 1873-5 )
NYC: Tribune Building (Richard Morris Hunt, 1873-5)
Chicago: Monadnock Building (Burnham and Root, 1889-91)
Chicago: Reliance Building (Burnham and Root, 1894-5)
Buffalo (NY): Guaranty Building ( Louis Sullivan 1894-5 )

elevator
steel frame
curtain wall
"form follows function" (Louis Sullivan)

Flexible frame design saves lives in March 11, 2011 Sendai, Japan earthquake

How 9/11 changed skyscraper design

The Skyscraper as a pillar of confidence

Power and Power: Legacies of the Glass Box

NYC: Chrysler Building (Van Alen, 1930)
NYC: Seagram Building (Mies van der Rohe, 1957)
NYC: AT&T Building (Philip Johnson, 1978)

1916 zoning law
glass box
"less is more," "God is in the details," "form is not the aim of our work, but only the result" (Mies van der Rohe)
I-beam
1961 zoning law
black skyscraper
surface area to volume ratio (AVr)
glazing ratio
post-modern
"less is a bore"

Copper.org on cost of Seagram Building materials

http://www.pbs.org/buildingbig

Tallest Towers from the Skyscraper Museum

NYC: Hines Tower (Jean Nouvel, 2007 proposal)

Beijing: CCTV Tower (Rem Koolhaas, 2008) Changing face of Beijing, NYT article 7/12/08

Frank Gehry's 8 Spruce Street, NYC, 2011

1 World Trade Center

The Tall Office Building Reconsidered: Sustainable Structures

NYC: Ford Foundation Building (Roche and Dinkeloo, Kiley, 1963-67)
NYC: Hearst Tower (Norman Foster Associates, 2005)
Seattle (Wash): Seattle Public Library (Rem Koolhaas, 2004)
Singapore: The Interlace (OMA, 2009 project)
Masdar (nr. Abu Dhabi) Sustainable City (Norman Foster, 2010 ff)

green building (definitions, from definitions, from "Green Towers for New York,"Skyscraper Museum)
sustainable design (basic principles from "The Green House," National Building Museum)
U.S. Green Building Council LEED rating system
diagrid
low E glass (defined in commercial context, ENERGY STAR overview)

Metropolis article "Rediscovered Masterpiece: The Ford Foundation"

Hearst Tower green features podcast on company website

Hearst tower on Constructalia: The Steel Construction website

Inhabitat photo essay on Hearst Tower, 4/26/11

Rem Koolhaas/Office of Metropolitan architecture website

Seattle Public Library: Diagram

Sustainability features

LEED Scorecard

slide show from The Seattle Times

function analysis

glazing diagram

LEED at Ithaca College:

Green features of Dorothy D. and Roy M. Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise, Ithaca College

displacement ventilation, passive solar orientation, solar screen, green roof, stormwater collection, locally quarried stone, sustainably harvested wood, external wall insulation, low VOC emitting finishes and furnishings, light sensors, high performance glazing, high efficiency appliances, waterless urinals

LEED Platinum for Park Center

Chronicle of Higher Education article on Park Center and Gateway Building

Green features of proposed Gateway Building in Environmental Design + Construction magazine (HOLT Architects)

distributed geothermal heat pump, natural convection ventilation (based on stack effect), vegetated roof, rainwater collection and redistribution, passive solar orientation, projecting roof shading, porous pavement, native planting, high performance glazing to control heat gain, internal clerestory windows to maximize natural light

Green features of proposed Athletics and Events Center (Moody-Nolan, Inc.)

Green features of the Alice H. Cook House at Cornell University

The Green Issue:Build/Some Bold Steps to Make Your Carbon Footprint Smaller, New York Times Magazine, 4/20/08

Treehugger Best of Green: Design + Architecture 2009

Getting Agressive about Passive Design, AR, 2007

Eduardo Souto de Moura wins 2011 Pritzker prize

Souto de Moura work on video

TEMPLES OF CULTURE: FORM AND FUNCTION IN THE MODERN MUSEUM

The Bilbao Effect

Los Angeles Getty Museum (Richard Meier, 1997)
Bilbao, Sp.: Guggenheim Museum (Frank Gehry, 1997
Seattle (Wash): Experience Museum Project (Gehry, 2000)
Santiago de Compostela (Sp): City of Culture (Peter Eisenman, 1999-2012)
Washington (DC): National Museum of African History and Culture (David Adjaye et. al., 2009 competition design, constr. 2010)

The Getty Center: Architecture, Getty Trust website

Architecture of the Getty Center, Charles Ryne photo survey

Guggenheim Bilbao: The Building,Guggenheim Foundation website

Bilbao Ten Years Later NYT article

The Bilbao Effect is Bulls**t

Gehry's newest museum, in Toronto

Winning desgn for National Museum of African American Culture

critic's assessment

Building Update with video discussion of design concept by architect David Adjaye

Architects take on Museums in Doha and Abu Dhabi

Holocaust Museum as Memorial, or Sacred Space Revisited

Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (James Freed, 1993)

Hall of Witness
Hall of Remembrance
"resonator of memory"
"this is a building that should disturb"

Inside the Museum: The Architecture, USHMM website

See also Daniel Libeskind's new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco (2008)

Coda: The Power of Architecture

"But for me the inspiring part of the Guggenheim Bilbao story is the function of art -- of architecture. From ancient Athens to Angkor Wat and the great cathedrals of Europe, architecture has expressed the highest aspirations of the human spirit. Here in Bilbao is a glimpse of what it could be for us today. Inescapably, too, it speaks of the extremes of human behavior. In another corner of Europe, people are dying because of one man's lust for power. Here they live more fully because of an arhcitect's genius for beauty."

--Anthony Lewis, "Engine for Change," New York Times, April 17, 1999.