Discuss the roles that modern architecture of the Americas have played in the liberation from colonialism and/or dependence on imported ideas and values. To support your answer, discu

American Architecture: The Evolving Modern House

R.M. Schinder, Schinder/Chace House, West Hollywood, 1921

Richard J. Neutra, Lovell Health House, Los Angeles, 1927-29

“L.A. Confidential,” 1997

Postmodernism & Deconstructivism

Stylistic Designations or Useful Commentaries

Postmodernism – Search for context

Stanley Tigerman, The Titanic, 1978

Mies van der Rohe, Crown Hall, IIT, Chicago, 1956

Andy Warhol Campell’s Soup

Can, 1962

Claes Oldenburg, Floor Burger, 1962

Edward Ruscha, Every Building on Sunset Strip, 1966

Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, 1966

Learning from Las Vegas (1972)

“Signs of Life: Symbols in the American City” Smithsonian Institutions, 1976

Robert Venturi, Guild House, Philadelphia, 1961

Robert Venturi, Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, PA, 1966

Stanford White, designer, Henry Hobson Richardson, Watts- Sherman House, 1874-75

Charles Moore House, Charles Moore, Orinda, 1962

Charles Moore, Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, 1978

Frank Gehry, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 1979

Michael Graves, Library, San Juan Capistrano, CA 1982

Contextualism as an Urban Design Strategy

New Urbanism: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andreas Duany, Seaside, FL, 1978-83

Adaptive Reuse:

Fanueil Hall/Quincy Market. Fanueil Hall,

Smibert, ca.1740; Quincy Market, Paris, 1825; rehabilitation,

Benjamin Thompson, 1976-78

Building with Nature

Edward Larrabee Barnes, Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, begun 1959

Edward Larrabee Barnes, Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, begun 1959

MLTW (Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull & Whitaker), Condominium One, Sea Ranch, Sonoma County, CA, 1963-65

Return to the Architectural Language of Modernism

New York Five: Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, Richard

Meier and John Hejduk (absent), ca. 1969

Richard Meier, Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Michigan, 1973

Le Corbusier, Villa Stein, Les Garches, 1926

Richard Meier and Associates, Getty Center, Los Angeles, 1997

Peter Eisenman, House II (Falk House), Hardwick, Vermont, 1969-70

Deconstructivist Architecture “Identifying the Symptoms of

Repressed Impurity,” Mark Wigley

Russian Constructivism Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism with Eight Red Rectangles, 1915

1915

Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the Third International, 1919 (model)

Frank Gehry, Gehry House, Santa Monica, begun 1976

Konstantin Melnikov, USSR Pavilion, Exposition des arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1925

Latin American Versions

of Post Modernism

Luis Barragan, Egerstrom Stables, Los Clubes, State of Mexico, 1967-68

Luis Barragan, Barragan House, Tacubaya, Mexico City, 1947

Lina Bo Bardi, SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1985

Lina Bo Bardi, Casa de Vidro (Glass House), Sao Paulo, 1951

Architecture of the America’s Since 2000

The Changing American Landscape

Public Buildings as Targets for Government Protest January 6, 2021 Insurrection on the U.S. Capitol

(begun ca.1792)

January 9, 2023 Attack on National Congress, Brasilia (Oscar Niemeyer, National Congress, Brasilia, 1958)

Presidential Palace (Palácio do Planalto), Brasilia, (Oscar Niemeyer, 1960)

Housing Challenges: Looking at Los Angeles Density:

Barbara Bestor, Black Birds, Los Angeles, 2015

Homelessness: Michael Maltzan, New Carver Apartments, Los Angeles, 2009;

RE-THINKING TRADITIONAL TYPOLOGIES

OMA, Seattle Central Library, Seattle, WA, 2004

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPERATIVES

Renzo Piano Building Workshop, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 2008

MUSEUM AS CULTURAL EXPRESSION

David Adjaye, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., 2016

South Carolina Slave Cabin, early 1800s

De Young Museum, Herzog & DeMeuron, 2005

Frank Gehry Associates, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1997

Frank Gehry, architect; Yasuhisa Toyota, acoustical consultant, Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 2003

ADAPTIVE REUSE/EXTENDED USE

James Corner Operations, landscape architect; Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Highline, New York,

begun 2009

Latin American Architecture ca. 2000

Public Spaces and Public Good

Mesa and Bernal (Plan B) and Camilo and J. Paul Restrep, Orquideorama, Medellin, Columbia, 2006

Taller|Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Mexico City, 1999-2000

Alberto Kalach, GGG House, Mexico City, 2000

Postwar Modernism

Nagasaki Bomb, August 9, 1945

Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-50

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German Pavilion, Barcelona, 1929

Mies van der Rohe: Left: Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-50

Right: German Pavilion, Barcelona, 1929

Mies van der Rohe, Lakeshore Drive

Apartments, Chicago, 1948-51

Mies van der Rohe, Project for a Glass Skyscraper,

1922

Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York, 1954-58

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Lever House, New York, 1950-52

New York City building boom, view from 1970s

Philip Johnson, Johnson House (“Glass House”), New Canaan, CT, 1949

Left: Philip Johnson, Johnson House (“Glass House”), New Canaan, CT, 1949 Right: Mies van der Rohe, Edith

Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, 1945-50

Levittown, New York, begun 1947, 6,000 houses, plus other amenities

Charles and Rae Eames, Eames House (Case Study House #8), Pacific Palisades, 1949

Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1956-59

Frank Lloyd Wright, V.C. Morris Store, Maiden Lane, San Francisco, 1948

Guggenheim Museum, Addition, Gwathmey Siegal

New York, 1992

Alvar Aalto, Baker House, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1949

Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio Aalto, Finnish Pavilion, New York World’s Fair, 1939

Eero Saarinen with Amman and Whitney, Structural Engineers, TWA Terminal, New York City, 1962

Louis I Kahn, Richards Medical Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1957-60

Wilson Eyre, Cope & Stewardson, et. al., Penn Museum (originally Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology), University

of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1899

Louis I Kahn, Salk Institute, La Jolla, 1962-63

Anshen & Allen, Salk Institute Addition, completed 1996

Paul Rudolph, Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.,1958-1964

Le Corbusier, La Tourette Monastery, near Lyons, France, 1953-1961

Carl Maston, Environmental Design Building (Building 7), Cal Poly. Pomona, 1971-72. Photos by Wayne Thom

Brasilia, Capital of Brazil

Oscar Niemeyer: Plaza of the Three Powers (left: Supreme Court, center: National Congress, right: Presidential Palace),

Oscar Niemeyer, National Congress, Brasilia, 1958

Oscar Niemeyer, Presidential Palace (Palácio do Planalto), Brasilia, 1960

Oscar Niemeyer, Foreign Relations Ministry (Itamaraty Palace), Brasilia, 1960

Oscar Niemeyer, Cathedral of Our Lady of Fatima, Brasilia, 1959- 70

Brasilia Super Blocks

Felix Candela, Church of our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Mexico City, 1953

Enrique Molinar,Mario Pani, Carlos Lazo and others, Universida Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, begun 1946

Juan O’Gorman and Gustavo Saavedra, Juan Martinez de Velasco, University Library, University of Mexico, Mexico City, 1950-53

South façade: Colonial Times