built environment from the architecture point of view
connection between history and design
design is taking ideas about what interior design and the world is but what you think about what the clients want; what is already or what could be or should be and giving it shape. understand history is looking at the other direction; my ideas and to look at the backwards idea- understanding what they thought about. understand what other people have said and what i have said- what should i think and have an opinion about. take historical examples and talk about their ideas. opportunity to think about what designers in the past have thought about; helps us understand what our ideas are.
ask as a historian
-when were they designed; what happened in these 15 years
why is it so different?
- people are influenced trough talk, scientific, art work, other designers: they were represented by individual interests and wider ideas about what design is about
Mies 1929
-main modernists in design; early 20th cenutry worked in europe and looked around the world- felt like hte world had changed drastically from what it had been before: mass production vs hand work, industrial revolution
-design must be repsonsive to this
-machine age: design both exterior and interiors should respond and manifest these changes
-people were unerstanding physics; people were developing bc of new materials that werent avaible before
-space: how do you organize it, think about, comes together
-take ideas and transform them into something physical
-design the pavilion for Germany in Barcelona
-space can be experienced by moving though it
experience space, germany was looking forward and responding to the future
-success: beautiful space, experiencing space
-walk outside but still have the comforts of interiors
-barcelona chair
-bringing it down to the essence of a line; every thing was thought out
Bauhaus:
Walter Gropius
-closed down in 1933; Mies director at the end of its life
-transparency; connection between spaces inside and outside
-meticulous detail
Chicago; Illinois Institute of Technology
-developing a system to represent the world, interior design and architecture as the way it should be
-curtain wals: connection between inside and outside
-machine like way: rationally organized
Farnsworth House 1945 (after WWII):
-she had hired him because he had developed this idea
-weekend-house surrounded by trees; take and design perfect space to represent clearly
-2 horizontal planes, closed off with glass planes: simple program
-he was not in touch with what the client wanted; good for people who were engaged with design
Robert Venturi 1978
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
-15 years after Mies finishes Farnsworth House
-lost the beauty of arch and id. in trying to make them too organized, radical undertsanding of place: sometimes things are contradictory and don't make sense
-making sense of the world and machinery: Mies
-contradictions are okay
-in trying to look ahead at the future and represent the new world; we've cleaned out tradition and history
-abstract ideas: las vegas the srtip mall: we can see what people are really interested in
-signs, interiors of casinos: Learning from Las Vegas (denise scott brown, steven lzenour)
-in modernist design: clear, obvious: no longer made sense:
Venturi :
-Sheraton Chair
Venturi Hosue Chesnut Hill 1962
symbolizes and looks like a:
pitched roof, cornice, windows where needed, chimney like; facade- doesn't always have to make sense
-post modernism: familiar, tradition, culture
-direct references to history
-purposefully knowing and understanding tradition; play around with its ideas
-straight forward symbols
where does this leave us?
these 2 designs are still very much a part of our culture.
post modernism was a result of modernism.
modernism: importance of a system, create clarity
post modernism: celebrating complexity, contradiction
what is your client interested in? what kinds of things are you interested in?
is symbolism okay or referring to other things or people?
how might you use things to reference?
be aware of how different people made their ideas into concrete things; these are inspirations for your designs.
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