Name, date and notes | Vietnam Veteran War Memorial, Maya Lin, 1982, Washington USA
-it was a war that was shameful
-site specific
-relative to human scale |
Name, date and notes | National Memorial to Peace and Justice
Alabama, USA 2018
-untold history:about American slavery
-cast iron columns each represents a county where slavery was taking place with at least 4000 names engraved on it
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what is fordism | -pioneered by Henry Ford
-large scale mechanised mass production
-concept: how to design for efficiency |
Name, date and notes | Inside Out school, Ghana, 2017
-andrea tabocchini and Frnacesca Vittorini
-built by local materials and was built in 60 days |
Name, date and notes | Makoko flooding school, Lagos, Nigeria, 2013
Khun Yemi
-innovated design using local materials
-can adapt to change in water levels |
Name, date and notes | South Health Campus, 2012, Canada
-has a library, kitchen, wellness centre |
Name, and explain | Pont de Gard Aqueduct, 1st century AD, Rome |
Name, date and notes | Bath of Caracalla, 211-217AD Rome,
-can accommodate up to 3000 people
-free or small entry fee
-Roman in style: Corinthian columns, round vaulted ceiling
-had a public library- mak a space of learning
-a theater space, meeting room- where decisions were made
-underground furnaces to heat the water
-men and women would be separated but not by class |
Explain Bauhaus | 1919-1934
-return to craftsmanship and quality
-combination of art and design school
-form follow function
-modern design
-first director: Walter Gropius and last: mies van de Rohe |
Name, date and notes | Fagus Shoe Factory, 1911, Germany, Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer
-curtain windows for ventilation and illumination |
Name | Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 1925
-flat roof, white facade, colourless- modern architecture
-form follows function |
Name, date and notes | Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1911-1959, Wisconsin-USA
-burned down in 1914 and 1925
-unesco site
-east and west- this is east
-inspired by Japanese architecture, vernacular- stone |
Explain Arts and Craft | William Morris- socialist
-1860-1925
-primarily in Britain but there is also in the USA
-return to hand craftmanship
-textile, wallpaper and tapestry
-using natural dies
-Moris and company- his company
Pimpernel wallpaper- 1876- famous wallpaper- using vegetable dying |
Name, date and notes | Wightwick, 1887, England, William Morris
-organic architecture
-use of patterns: wallpaper, area rug, drapery
-mediaeval style |