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Archigram: arch + comic/scifi = futuristic city; city = mobile machine, system with interchangeable parts
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Banham: Thought houses were high-tech systems hidden under sheetrock and shingles; "a house is not a home"; home = protective bubble, portable machinery
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Botticher: structural skeleton and artistic skin = separate systems, skin should express the bones beneath, both greek and gothic have this unity
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Buckminster Fuller: banham's hero; engineer; machine-like houses
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Buckminster Fuller: "Madam, how much does your house weigh?"
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Concrete: recovered from antiquity, modern = reinforced with metal bars, mesh; thin slabs with point supports; works in compression and tension
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E.-E. Viollet-Le-Duc (1800s): architectural outsider; hunchback of notre dame = praise french gothic cathedrals; learned by apprenticeship; travel, not formal school
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Engineering: height and volume, minimal material, ornament and structure are consistent
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Factory-made Aluminum House: efficient, strong, cheap (what house?)
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Flying Buttresses, Piers: transfer loads from walls
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Glass: larger, cheaper, transparent, modern
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Gothic: example of structural rationality
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House in a Tube: fuller proposal: beech aircraft factory > house production; collapses down to fit in a mailing tube
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Karl Botticher (1800s): taught at Berlin Bauakademie; book about greek and gothic construction; both equally valid; greek trabeation (post and beam), gothic arcuation (vaults)
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Labrouste: inflated, buoyant interior volumes; iron dramatically alters architectural form
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Louis Sullivan: best building in chicago; inspired his approach
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Mezzanine: intermediate floor just above the ground floor
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Modern Construction: thin panels on structural frame
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Otto Wagner: modern arch: construction = key to style, bolts holding facade = celebrated, not hidden, frame = more use of glass
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Rational: larger spaces, less material, weight, cost; viollet le duc
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Renaissance Construction: stone sits on stone
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Reyner Banham (1900s): aeronautical engineering, then architectural history; modern = technology; postwar modern arch = just a style
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Richardson: who? skyscraper's skin expresses frame and layers?
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Skeletal Framework: bay system with ribbed vaults, trussed wooden roof, lead sheathing to shed rain
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Skyscraper: all metal-frame; new form; tall office buildings
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Sullivan: "It should be every inch a proud and soaring thing."
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Sullivan: "Form follows function."
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Vezelay: Largest romanesque church in france. popular due to its relics of mary magdalene.; viollet le duc in charge of its restoration; round arches and groin vaults