Day 6

Chapter 7: Architecture

§Post and lintel 7.2

Stonehenge (3 slides) see 7.18

§Construction means 7.3, .4, .5, 9A,B,C;11A,B,C;.15

 

Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae 15CBC (corbels) (3)

 

§Pyramids at Giza (2)

 

§Karnak, Temple of Amun 2.34 (4 slides)

 

§Arches and vaults

 

§Pont du Gard, Nîmes, France, 1st CBC. 7.10

 

§Pantheon, Rome 2ndC. 7.13. (4)

 

Arch, arcade, dome

Pendentives, squinches

§Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. 537. 7.14 (5)

 

St.-Sernin, Toulouse. 11th C. nave.

Amiens Cathedral. 1220. nave see 12.28

§NotreDame, Paris, 1250. 12.28. (7)

§St.Peter’s Rome.17th C.façade, 16th C.Dome. 7.19

Timber construction

 

Horyuji, Nara, Japan. 7th C. 7.17 (4)

 

Severn River Bridge, Coalbrookdale, Eng. 18thC.

 

§Paxton. Crystal Palace, London. mid 19thC. 7.20

 

Roebling&Roebling. Brooklyn Bridge, NYC.7.24

 

§Sullivan. Wainwright Bldg. St. Louis, 1891. 7.21

Mies vander Rohe. Seagram Bldg., NYC, 1956

Empire State Bldg. NYC. Construction 1931. (2)

 

VanAllen. Chrysler Bldg. NYC. 1930. 7.23

 

§Mies vander Rohe. Ger. Pav., Barcelona, 1929. 8.35

 

§Wright. Falling Waters, Bear Run PA. 1936. 7.16

 

§LeCorbusier. Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamps, France. 1955. 7.25 (6)

 

§Eero Saarinen. TWATerminal, JFK,NYC.1962.7.26

 

§Fuller. Geodesic Dome, Montreal, 1967. 7.7

§Safdie. Habitat. Montreal 1997. 7.32

Piano & Rogers. Pompidou Ctr, Paris. 1977. 7.6

Gehry. Guggenheim Mus. Bilbao, Spain. 1997.