week 9 Flashcards
(39 cards)
what are the 6 Architectural Styles(BRAAIN)
- Revivalism
- Art Deco
- Art Nouveau
- International Style
- Brutalism
- Neo-Classical Style
what style was penn Station in 1910
- Architecture replicated temples and spaces of the wealthy
- neo-classical style
- Original design gave importance to human wellbeing, empowering
how many people would go through penn station everyday
600,000
why did penn station go into delice around the 1950s
Competing with car and aeroplanes in 1950s
what new design did they change penn station to
Utilitarian
what is Utilitarian design?
a designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive.
3 Jobs of Human Friendly Design (MIC)
- Put our lives in a better context
- Create a common sense of identity and space (ex. churches)
- Support human comfort
how did Predynastic Egypt (3100 BCE) keep there art styles for thousands of years?
- Part of one top down system
- One religion
- Art style was like a brand, it was run like a company
- No societies before that
- Art style united religion, government & society
Which train station in New York was renovated to sell its air rights?
Penn station
If the Penn station works well enough for moving people which is one reason why it looks matter?
Creates an environment where human life is worth living
The single artistic style untied are…
Religion
Government and society
Why does it matter weather people feel comfortable on streets
Helps business
Makes people walk more
Physical and mental health
Eyes on the streets
Revialsilm
Revival of different older styles
ex. Baroque, Mayan etc.
Art Deco
sleek, linear appearance with stylized, often geometric ornamentation
ex. Chrysler Building, Bank of Nova Scotia
Art Nouveau
flowing lines, repeating rhythm, and asymmetry for a natural feel
ex. Gaudi
International Style
Glass & Steel
ex. United Nations building
Brutalism
Concrete, truth to materials
Neo-Classical Style
grandeur of scale, simplicity of geometric forms
Roman detail
dramatic use of columns
a preference for blank walls
what are atributes of postmodernism
About building anything
Like las vagus
Random stuff built
Whimsical, different
Brought back ornament
Frank Gehry(LV)
Inspired by book “Abandoned from Las Vegas”
known for his use of bold, postmodern shapes and unusual fabrications.
ex. dancing house
Louis Sullivan
said: “Form follows Function”
Against features that did accomplish anything
Referring to the unnecessary parts of a building that serve no purpose, not removing ornamentation
Adolf Loos (1913) know for saying
“Ornamentation and Crime”
Sought to shame architects for ornamentation, associating with poor and minorities
Inspired Bauhaus style, which is a German art movement
Le Corbusier (IS)
Inspired International style and Brutalism
what 3 forms of achurtrual style did create
- International style
Bare basics - Brutalism
Truth to materials
Brute means raw - Kinda - Developer modernism
Earth tones
Rectangles