Lecture 26: Architecture since 1945

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Domestic architecture: individual, integration with nature.
- Mies van der Rohe:
  - Farnsworth House, Il. 1945-50.
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Falling Water,Bear Run, PA 1937./details: 1, 2, 3
Apartment Buildings:
- Mies van der Rohe:
  - Lake Shore Drive apartment houses. Chicago. 1950-2.
    - Exterior from southeast
    - Construction
- Le Corbsier
  - Unite d'Habitacion, Marseilles 1947-52. /details: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6
Business Buildings:
- Ornament, allusion to past forms
  - Sullivan Guaranty Building, Buffalo, NY 1895./Gilbert Woolworth Building, NYC.
  - van Alen Chrysler Building, 1930/view
- friendliness to street:
  - Lescaze & Howe: PSFS Building Philadelphia, 1934. /details: 1, 2, 3.
- Curtain wall, plaza, spine:
  - Mies van der Rohe Seagram Building, 1957 / Details: 1, 2, 3, 4
  - Skidmore, Owings, Merrill Hancock Building, Chicago 1965/ detail
Religious Structure - solidity of "natural" materials, organic forms
- Le Corbusier Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp/details: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Museum Structures:
- Wright Guggenheim Museum, 1946-59/details: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. /Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), 1928 - point of comparison.
- Piano & Rogers Centre Pompidou, Paris 1974-7./details: 1 & 2.
"Post-Modern"
- Philip Johnson AT&T Building 1978-84./details: 1, 2, 3.