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Frank Lloyd WRIGHT - UNITY Temple

2013-02-07T11:28:06.060Z

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Frank Lloyd WRIGHT - (1908) - Unity Temple (Oak Park, Chicago - Illinois, U.S.) http://gowright.org/

Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. It was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1905 and 1908. Unity Temple is considered to be one of Wright's most important structures dating from the first decade of the twentieth century. Because of its consolidation of aesthetic intent and structure through use of a single material, reinforced concrete, Unity Temple is considered by many architects to be the first modern building in the world.
To accommodate the needs of the congregation, Wright divided the community space from the temple space through a low, middle loggia that could be approached from either side. This was an efficient use of space and kept down on noise between the two main gathering areas: those coming for religious services would be separated via the loggia from those coming for community events. This design was one of Wright's first uses of a bipartite design: with two portions of the building similar in composition and separated by a lower passageway, and one section being larger than the other. The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is another bipartite design.
To reduce noise from the street, Wright eliminated street level windows in the temple. Instead, natural light comes from stained glass windows in the roof and clerestories along the upper walls. Because the members of the parish would not be able to look outside, Unity Temple's stained glass was designed with green, yellow, and brown tones in order to evoke the colors of nature. The main floor of the temple is accessed via a lower floor (which has seating space), and the room also has two balconies for the seating of the congregation. These varying seating levels allowed the architect to design a building to fit the size of the congregation, but efficiently: no one person in the congregation is more than 40 feet from the pulpit. Wright also designed the building with very good acoustics.
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Le CORBUSIER - SWISS Pavilion

2012-04-13T08:08:51.609Z

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Le CORBUSIER - (1933) - SWISS Pavilion (Paris, France)

In 1924, Switzerland decided to built its student housing on the University Campus of Paris (Cité Universitaire http://www.ciup.fr/)[48°49'4.82"N - 2°20'31.59"E]. The inauguration took place in July 1933. Considered to be one of "the most free and imaginative structures" of Le Corbusier [http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/], the building represents a synthesis of three approaches. The first one advocates the autonomous slab free from any reference to the form of the land site. The second advocates an articulation of the slab by the means of specific functional elements, or a dialogue between industrial and "natural" materials. The third approach applies two of the five points of modern architecture: pilotis in exposed concrete and a roof terrace combining privacy and openness to the sky and sun. In many respects this buildings is a landmark, not only in the terms of Le Corbusier's own future development, but also for other architects who during the second half of the twentieth century developed their approach to architecture based to a considerable extent on Le Corbusier's pioneering experiments. Since 1945, the building has undergone several additional changes by Le Corbusier. In 1948, a wall painting was commissioned to replace the previous photo mural of 1933. In 1953, Le Corbusier transformed the southern curtain-wall in order to reduce the excessive solar impact and in 1957 he added a series of enamelled benches and a new polychromy to the rooms. On September 8th, 1965 the Swiss Pavillion was included in the register, and in 1986 confirmed and classified as a historical monument.
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Le CORBUSIER - Maison du Brésil

2012-04-13T08:07:52.076Z

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Le CORBUSIER - (1959) - Maison du Brésil (Paris, France)

This housing block at the Cité Universitaire complex in Paris (coordinates 48°49'04 N - 02°20'37 E) was designed by Le Corbusier for Brazilian students and researchers, was opened June 24, 1959. Initially, the design had been assigned to the great Brazilian architect Lucio Costa. The latter appealed to his friend Le Corbusier, already author of the Swiss Foundation, to help develop the project. But the project was so profoundly changed from the initial sketch that Lucio Costa abandoned his paternity of the house!
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Le CORBUSIER - Villa La ROCHE

2011-12-27T14:36:03.433Z

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Le CORBUSIER - (1923) - Villa La ROCHE (Paris, France)

La Maison La Roche-Jeanneret is a double house built by Le Corbusier in 1924. They are in the Rue Doctor Blanche to the numbers 8-10. They are the seat of the Le Corbusier Foundation http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/. The project dates back to 1923, when Raoul La Roche commissioned to the Helvetic architect a house where he could also be exposed his art gallery. Was used the new technique of reinforced concrete and, in line with the experiences of the modern movement, ran out all the decorations in favor of an absolute set of volumes of pure geometrical features. Villa Jeanneret was instead built in collaboration with the architect Pierre Jeanneret in 1925. The two buildings are joined in today. [...] Open the door, go under a bridge, and the tight space explodes upwards and through punched-out voids that are mysteriously backlit. Go across the triple-height space, look at the Purist paintings, one of which you now seem to be moving through, turn left up a stair, and survey the pure prisms from a balcony....Catch your breath, turn around, and proceed to the culmination, La Roche's curved gallery... [M]ount the brown ramp to the left, to Le Roche's aerie, his top-lit library. The spatial sequence is remarkable and remained a constant preoccupation of Le Corbusier. It also became the stock in trade of subsequent Modern architects.[...] (Charles Jencks)

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La Maison La Roche-Jeanneret è una doppia villetta costruita da Le Corbusier nel 1924. Si trovano nella square della Rue Doctor Blance ai numeri 8-10. Sono la sede della Fondazione Le Corbusier. Il progetto risale al 1923, quando Raoul La Roche commissionò all'architetto elvetico una casa dove potesse anche essere esposta la sua galleria d'arte. Venne usata la nuova tecnica del cemento armato e, in linea con le esperienze del movimento moderno, vennero a mancare tutte le decorazioni, in favore di un'assoluta funzionalità impostata su volumi geometrici puri. Villa Jeanneret venne invece costruita in collaborazione con l'architetto Pierre Jeanneret nel 1925. I due edifici oggi sono uniti all'interno.
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Richard MEIER - (2007) - The LIDO Village (JESOLO [VE] - Italy)

2011-02-23T14:45:31.376Z

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The project of "Jesolo Lido Village" designed by Richard Meier [http://www.richardmeier.com/www/] consists of three complementary elements: The "Pool Houses" is a village of 83 apartments centered around its beautiful courtyard with swimming pools and solarium, The "Beach Houses", an apartment building for completion in 2011, and Jesolo Lido Hotel. The Village [http://www.richardmeier.com/www/#/projects/architecture/visual/1/284/1/], consists of a long rectangular residential building with retail space on the ground floor facing a central plaza, and two rows of apartaments of different sizes ranged along either side of a swimming pool and park space. A typical residential module in this "village" layout combines one-bedroom and two-bedroom units on three floors with a common external stair and small garden courts at grade. This freestanding residential module provides for an alternation of volumes and voids, with a brise-soleil system that runs continuously along the elevation facing the swimming pool. At dawn and dusk light will filter through the voids between the residential modules providing for particularly animated light conditions. A landscape "palette" made up of paved courts and water features mixes with the existing trees and new planting to create a fluid, lyrical park that progresses in a series of formal spatial steps toward the lido facing the adjacent lagoon. ..."a new concept of space for spending free time and holidays, using human dimensions as a unit of measure."...