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North-West Facade Located in France in the small city of Yvelines we can find the Villa Savoye. It stands on top of a hill where it can overlook the bordering river, Seine. The town had a school named after Le Corbusier which ironically almost led to the destruction of the Villa. From the street nothing can really be seen through the trees. The Villa was considered an “upper class”. It was even more emphasized by having the Villa in the middle of the site. This encourages people to walk around the building before actually entering. The house could be described as a floating box that was pierced by a band of window. The Villa shows strong elements of horizontality and verticality. The horizontality is seen as the floating box is strinpped even more through the band of windows, really creating three bands. Even though the house is on pilots, we don't notice them. The vertical elements are the more cylinder element, above and below the box. It almost seems that the cylinder is ...

Arial View In 1962 Eero Saarinen was commissioned to design the new Airport Terminal. Before this time, flying was mainly for rich people; the same thing could be said about architecture. The airlines began discounting tickets and including payment plans so that "common people" could afford their services. For this terminal they wanted the idea of the “spirit of flight.” He created a design that was made up of four symmetrical curved concrete shells that came together in middle. Many said the building looked like a bird about to take flight; Saarinen said this was only a coincidence because he got his inspiration from a hollow grapefruit peel, which, he pushed the middle down. Interior Space Whichever the inspiration, the TWA is a milestone achievement. Before then, many architects were not worried of the person’s personal use or experience, but Saarinen wanted to change that. “We wanted passengers passing through the building to experience a fully-designed env...

East Elevation After observing Frank Lloyd Wright’s building through paper Robert Van’t Hoff traveled to America, where he visited the Midway Gardens, Taliesin, the Larkin building and the Oak Park home. When he traveled back to Europe he had a new ideology on what future architecture should be. Creating the Villa Henny put him on the map for international fame.  A year after the Villa was completed, he met Theo Van Doesburg. Together they started the De Stijl Magazine writing articles of the future of architecture, along with Jan Wils and Antonio Sant’Elia. Van’t Hoff renounced being an architect and continued as a furniture designer in Hampshire, England in 1937. Robie House- Frank Lloyd Wright Inspiration  The Villa Henny was originally for A. B. Henny, who was a businessman, but before the house was even finished he sold it to another resident. It is hard to classify the house to just one style, since it gets its abstract structure from De Stijl, which we know ...

Front Facade In Frank Lloyd Wright’s mind he was the first American Architect because of his creation of the Prairie style. The scheme consisted of horizontal planes, a hip roof with overhangs and a solid foundation. Wright was given the Martin project with no monetary limit, and he finished it in 1905; which really set him out to do whatever he pleased. Martin and his wife, along with his sister-in-law, lived on the property. Once Martin lost his job the family was forced to leave, leaving the house vacant for 17 years. After suffering a lot of damage, the Martin House Restoration Corporation started raising money to restore it to its former glory. An adjacent building was built next to the estate to create a visitor center, called the Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion. Their goal is to raise $50 billion to have the estate exactly as it was when it first opened, to be used as a museum. Shutter The estate is formed from 5 buildings, Carriage House, Barton House...

Front Facade Mies Van Der Rohe was a German Architect and the last director for the Bauhaus. After the Nazi’s took over Germany, he fled to Chicago. He was a designer in Modernism, which the Nazi’s were against, causing the end to the Bauhaus. He was a big believer in “less is more” and “God is in the details.” What does this mean? Well, what does a building really need? Structure, enclosure, and a Programmatic goal. For Mies, he wanted the programmatic goal to be changeable, so his building would never be about the past, but about the future. In his work on the IIT Campus, he does a great job at showing his point in the architecture wing, also known as the S.R Crown Hall. The entire campus is broken up into a 24x24 grid. Van der Rohe never wanted anything to be out of place. He had the furniture, desks, drafting tables, and lab tables to define the room size. The room sizes would then add up to the building size and then all together that would create the campus, ...

Isaiah Rogers, born August 17, 1800-April 13, 1869, was an architect in the United States. He was born to Isaac Rogers and Hannah Ford in Marshfield Massachusetts. In 1823 He married a woman by the name of Emily Wesley Tibet, and had eight children, only four of them survived. Two of his sons became architects studying behind their father. He was a student under Solomon Willard, and became known as the country’s foremost hotel architect, renowned in Boston for his Tremont House. The Tremont house was the first hotel built on Tremont and Season street in 1823, and was known for having the first of many items. This four-story, granite faced, piece of neoclassical architecture included indoor plumbing, indoor toilets, a reception area, locked rooms for guests, free soap, and even bellboys. There were eight toilets on the ground floor and bathrooms with baths made from copper and tin in the basement, each with heated water, heated with local gas. The water in the building was r...

Glass House(Connecticut)- Modern            Creator of one of the first International Style of residential building, Philip Johnson was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906. He began his professional career as the director of the architectural department at the MoMA in New York City. In the same year Hitchcock and he collabed to write “The International Style” (1931). Johnson decided to change to a more hands on approach, and returned to Hartford's design school. Johnson was mentored by Mies van der Rohe using his style to create his first works, like the Glass House, and even designing the Seagram Building with Mies. As the new styles of architecture changed, so did his style. In the 1960s he took on a more historical motif, or decorative Classism, which became more known as the post modernism. As the deconstructivist style grew Johnson took on the style as well. Mies’ rules greatly influenced Johnson to break from the internati...