arc 308 test 1 - building list Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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ARC 308
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ARC 308
Bishop's Palace
- Galveston, TX
- Nicholas John Clayton
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architecture and society: house describes people in that place at that time (reflects
the character/nature merchants who lived there and the time and city in which they
lived)
Foam House
- Austin, TX
- Charles Harker
- ...
arc 308 test 1 - building list
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Latest Update
Bishop's Palace
✓ - Galveston, TX
✓ - Nicholas John Clayton
✓ - 1886-1891
✓
✓ architecture and society: house describes people in that place at that time (reflects
the character/nature merchants who lived there and the time and city in which they
lived)
Foam House
✓ - Austin, TX
✓ - Charles Harker
✓ - 1969
✓
✓ architecture and society: house that describes people in that place at that time
(reflect the wild, ambitious nature of the time it was built: hippie culture +
rebellious)
✓ - Athens, Greece
✓ - 447-430 BCE
✓
✓ architecture and society: monument in architecture -> look at way in which they're
not just objects, they really are physical embodiment of culture they represent (what
does it say about the people who made it + how can we all these centuries later go
back and viscerally feel what it was like to be in greece at that time)
✓ example of architecture becoming a physical embodiment of greek culture +
eloquent expression of who they were
St. Peter's Basilica
✓ - Rome, Italy (Vatican City)
✓ - Bramante, Sangallo, Michelangelo, Della Porta, Maderno, Bernini
✓ - 1505-1626
✓
✓ architecture and society: Very intentional desire to say what is the church of rome:
vatican's church + center of catholic church
✓ monument = emblem of church, church power, pope, centrality of church in rome,
whole city + whole culture
✓ - Power of arch to become physical embodiment of who we are as individuals +
collectively as culture
✓ - Make us today think abt our own culture
(San Antonio Public) Library
✓ - San Antonio
✓ - Ricardo Legorreta
✓ - 1995
✓
✓ architecture and society: what does physical environment say about san antonio
(culture, people)
✓ architecture is physical embodiment of who we are
✓ - Gut Garkau, Germany
✓ - Hugo Haring
✓ - 1924-1925
✓
✓ architectural values: haring believed function is above all the greatest criteria for
architecture (flow) + no universals of beauty + every building should have its own
unique character (ex: material character and unique shape)
✓ building reflects how architecture comes out of function of building (Shape and form
of every piece of that building is being generated by function)
✓
✓ Everything in building is so carefully considered according to the values of haring
✓ Importance of the individual
✓ Individual building, expression of that building, function: All generating architectural
form
Barcelona Pavilion
✓ - Barcelona, Spain
✓ - Mies van der Rohe
✓ - 1929
✓
✓ architectural values:
✓ talking about construction (construction generating form)
✓ Generated by notion of how do you build authentically in this heavy brick material ->
how do you make openings in it that don't violate that notion of the big solid brick
wall (reflects van der Rohe's values)
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