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High-Tech Architecture   Architectural genre which celebrates & elaborates the constructive, structural, and technological systems of a building in an expressively industrial/mechanical manner.  
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Traits of High-Tech Architecture   1.Elaboration and exposure of the structural system 2.General aesthetic is based on machinery and industrial elements 3.Use of prefabricated / replaceable components and mass-produced parts 4.Exposure of service systems normally hidden  
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Eero Sarrinen   John Deere World Headquarters  
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Centre Pompidou-Paris   Richard Rogers & Renzo Piano  
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INMOS Factory   Richard Rogers  
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Lloyds of London   Richard Rogers  
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De Menil Collection   Renzo Piano  
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Sainsbury Art Centre   Norman Foster  
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Renault Distribution Centre   Norman Foster  
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Hong Kong Bank   Norman Foster  
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Waterloo Station   Nicholas Grimshaw  
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Astronaut Memorial   Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones  
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Techno-Environmentalism   the enacting of green systems for things like passive cooling, economy of material, etc. without sacrificing the robust technological expression.  
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Tjibaou Cultural Centre   Renzo Piano  
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London City Hall   Norman Foster  
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Hearst Building- New York City   Norman Foster  
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Swiss Reinsurance Building   Norman Foster  
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Organic Architecture   promotes harmony between man and nature through design so well integrated with its site that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition.  
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Traits of Organic Architecture (1)   1.Harmonious / integrated relationship to the natural site 2.Use of material indigenous to / representative of the site 3.“Natural” forms = biomorphic & curvilinear; pod-like & cellular; fractal & rocky  
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Traits of Organic Architecture (2)   4.Meandering designs that appear to have “grown” like a natural occurrence 5.Blurring of the distinction between inside and outside 6.Environmentalism concerns, both technical and spiritual  
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Fallingwater   Frank Lloyd Wright  
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Taliesin West   Frank Lloyd Wright  
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First Christian Church – Phoenix   Frank Lloyd Wright  
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Ford House   Bruce Goff  
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Bavinger House   Bruce Goff  
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Prairie Chicken House   Herb Greene  
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Joe Price House   Bart Prince  
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High Desert House   Kendrick Bang Kellogg  
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Elrod House   John Lautner  
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Platt Residence   Will Bruder  
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Los Angeles Avant Garde   Frank Israel, Eric Owen Moss, Morphosis (Michael Rotondi--ROTO & Thom Mayne)  
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Tectonic Baroque   design where the tectonics – materials, joinery, formal systems – are multiplied, elaborated, and overlain to create abstractly ornamental, visually complex designs.  
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Traits of Tectonic Baroque   1. Use of several materials that fragment together in one design 2. Interaction in plan and section of multiple formal and geometric systems 3. Tectonics of skin, skeleton, & joinery are exuberantly elaborated 4. Insert interior elements(pseudo-machine  
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Bright & Associates   Frank Israel  
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Dan House   Frank Israel  
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Goldberg-Bean Residence   Frank Israel  
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Gary Group   Eric Owen Moss  
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3535 Hayden   Eric Owen Moss  
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Stealth Building   Eric Owen Moss  
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Lawson-Weston House   Eric Owen Moss  
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Morphosis Architects   Thom Mayne & Michael Rotondi  
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Venice III House   Morphosis  
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Kate Mantiline Restaurant   Morphosis  
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Diamond Ranch High School   Morphosis  
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Carlson Reges Residence   Roto  
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Deconstructivism   characterized by a stimulating unpredictability and a controlled chaos, and moving architecture away from what its practitioners see as the constricting 'rules' of modernism  
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Deconstructivism Traits   1. Designs which feature fragmentation, collision, peeling, instability 2. Non-Euclidean geometry= few 90 angles, many sharp angles, loss of geometry as tool of order 3. Mix of forms and systems with no regard to organizational repercussions  
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MoMA show   Show exhibiting international architects  
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Parc la Villette   Bernard Tschumi  
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Wexner Center for Visual Arts   Peter Eisenman  
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Aronoff Center for Design and Art   Peter Eisenman  
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Vitra Fire Station   Zaha Hadid  
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Jewish Museum Berlin   Daniel Libeskind  
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Dever Art Museum   Daniel Libeskind  
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"The Crystal" ROM (Royal Ontarion Museum)   Daniel Libeskind  
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Gehry House   Frank Gehry  
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Schnabel House   Frank Gehry  
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Vitra Chair Museum   Frank Gehry  
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Attic Renovation   Coop Himmelblau  
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UFA Cinema Center   Coop Himelblau  
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3 parts of Neo-Traditionalism   1. Neo-Vernacular 2. Historicism 3. New Urbanism  
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Vernacular   Of or being an indigenous building style using local materials and traditional methods of construction and ornament, especially as distinguished from academic or historical architectural styles  
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Neo-Vernacular   Design which reinterprets vernacular architecture through the lens of contemporary design  
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Traits of Neo-Vernacular   1. Uses barns, sheds, and other indigenous building typologies as precedents. 2. simple forms and roofs 3. Exposed low-tech structure (stick framing, exposed rafters, rammed earth, etc.)  
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Critical Regionalism   strives to counter placelessness and lack of identity in Modern Architecture by using the building's geographical context  
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Critical Regionalism Quote   “The paradox: how to become modern and to return to sources; how to revive an old, dormant civilization and take part in universal civilization” K. Frampton “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance”  
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Critical Regionalism Info   Architects should use modern architecture in a critical fashion -- gaining from its universal & progressive qualities, its attention to structure and order -- but simultaneously use solutions particular to the context  
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Zachary House   Stephen Atkinson  
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Mason Bend Chapel   Rural Studio  
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Cook House   Mockbee-Coker  
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Carraro Residence   Lake Flato Architects  
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Thorncrown Chapel   Faye Jones  
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Marika Alderton House   Glen Murcutt  
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Historicism   Design which recreates traditional/historic architectural styles for modern programs, faithfully and without irony  
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Traits of Historicism   Uses high-style historical architecture as formal, organizational, and tectonic precedent.  
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Weill Hall   Robert A. M. Stern  
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Maitland Robinson Library   Quinlan Terry  
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New Urbanism   An urban planning movement which advocates creating tradition-inspired communities using design principles found in earlier, pre-automobile, small-town environments.  
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Traits of New Urbanism   • Desire for return to an idealized (possibly mythic) sense of community • Belief that these can solve societal and environmental problems • Codifies both neo-vernacular and historicist architectural / urban typologies to enforce desired goals.  
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Seaside, FL   Neo Traditional town that advertises itself as a small town, yet it's legally a subdivision with privately owned streets, although outsiders do attend community events and shop at its stores.  
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Poundbury   Masterplan by Leon Krier Planned Community in Dorchester, Great Britain  
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Minimalism   Trend in various forms of art and design where the work is reduced / condensed to a few features / elements.  
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Traits of Minimalism   1. Pure forms/shapes, purged of complex edges, surfaces, transitions, & additions 2. Restrained palette of materials 3. Neutral, unbroken surfaces / elimination of lines, detail, joints 4. there is equality and repetition without differentiation  
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Christo   wrapping  
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Most known for large sculptures made of curved plates of Cor-ten steel   Richard Serra  
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Tilted Arc   Richard Serra  
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Kanye West Apartment   Claudio Silvestrin  
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Walsh House   John Pawson  
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Minimalism Quote   “Minimalist Architecture Principle: Sort out what your highest priority architectural requirements are, and then do the least you possibly can to achieve them.”  
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“Ornament is a crime.” & "Less is More"   Minimalism  
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Glass House   Philip Johnson  
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Elektra House   David Adjaye  
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Tubac House   Rick Joy  
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial   Maya Lin  
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Church of the Light   Tadao Ando  
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Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art   Tadao Ando  
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Murcia Town Hall   Rafael Moneo  
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De Blas House   Alberto Campo Baeza  
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Material Modernism   Architectural work that is Modernist in formal language coupled with a more diverse and intricate exploration of material, detail, & surface strategies.  
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Traits of Material Modernism   • Modernist general formal nature -- boxy forms, simple geometry, clean lines • Use of a mixed palette of materials creates diverse collage instead of a unified visual field (like minimalism) • Intricacy of designed moments, surface, detail, and joinery  
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Phenomenalism/Phenomenology   1. Architecture philosophy based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties. 2. Investigation of materials by celebrating different properties, juxtaposing different haptic properties of the same material or different materials.  
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'a relentless analysis of detail.'   Material Modernism  
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Castelvecchio Museum   Carlo Scarpa  
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Stretto House   Steven Holl  
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Chapel of St. Ignatius   Steven Holl  
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The Neurosciences Institute   Williams + Tsien  
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Museum of American Folk Art   Williams + Tsien  
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Thermal Baths   Peter Zumthor  
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Kunsthaus Bregenz   Peter Zumthor  
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Signal Box   Herzog & DeMeuron  
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Library – Eberswalde University   Herzog & DeMeuron  
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GSW Headquarters   Sauerbruch & Hutton  
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Herz-Jesu-Kirche   Allmann Sattler Wappner (ASW)  
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Netherland Institute for Sound and Vision   Nueteling Riedjik  
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Meta-rationalism   Design trend which combines rational (regular) form with irrational/irregular 2D and 3D distorting influences, which subvert the regular reading of the form.  
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Traits of Meta-rationalism   1. Use of rational form (boxes) for major volume(s) 2. building envelopes which investigate patterns – pixelations - perforations – punctures 3. Overlays, cuts, voids, and subtractions which break up the major form. 4. transformational/distorted layers  
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Southwest Metal Offices   Allmann Sattler Wappner  
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Prada Tokyo   Herzog & De Meuron  
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De Young Museum   Herzog & De Meuron  
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Elbe Philharmonic   Herzog & De Meuron  
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Simmons Hall   Steven Holl  
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The Orange Cube   Jacob + McFarlane  
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Serpentine Gallery   Toyo Ito  
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Sendai Mediatheque   Toyo Ito  
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Seattle Public Library   Rem Koolhaas (OMA--Office for Metropolitan Architecture)  
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CCTV Building   Rem Koolhaas (OMA--Office for Metropolitan Architecture)  
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2008 Olympics A showcase for new meta-rationalist design. Two main buildings are…   The Birdsnest and The Water Cube  
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Olympic Stadium--The Birdsnest   Herzog & DeMeuron  
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Blobitecture   Late 20th / 21st-century design movement in which all or part of the building has a bio-morphic, fluid, and curvaceous form(s) of such constructive complexity it requires the use of computer-aided visualization, design, and fabrication systems.  
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Fluidity   acting against forces, smooth and TAUT  
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“Fred & Ginger building”   Frank Gehry  
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Guggenheim Bilbao   Frank Gehry  
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Walt Disney Concert Hall   Frank Gehry  
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Selfridge Department Store   Future Systems  
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Kunsthaus Graz   Cook/Fournier  
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New Milan Trade Fair   Massimilano Fuksas  
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Ordos Museum   MAD  
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BMW Welt   Coop Himmelbau  
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Mercedes Benz Museum   UN Studio  
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Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre   Zaha Hadid  
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Cooper Union Building   Morphosis  
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BMW Plant Central Building   Zaha Hadid  
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Mid-Century Modernism   period post-WWII to Vietnam War (1945-1965), characterized by the evolution of the International Style into an optimistic, futuristic approach to form and material.  
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Traits of Mid-Century Modernism   1.Freedom from gravity 2.Exploration of new materials and processes 3.Fluid and rounded forms 4.Celebration of scientific discoveries/technology 5.Openness to exterior landscape 6. Bold, abstract patterns and vibrant, impure colors  
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Utopian Communalism   design mega-structures which consolidate urban functions into dense architectural structures based on natural systems, and which promote communal, sustainable ways of living.  
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Traits of Utopian Communalism   1. Hi-tech or mixed-tech consolidated communities based on communal government 2. Megastructures 3. Technology/machinery influenced by nature 4. Use of repetitive cellular elements with varied connectivities 5. Build on sites otherwise unused  
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Béton Brut   Architectural concrete left unfinished or roughly-finished after pouring and left exposed visually. The imprint of the wood or plywood forms used for pouring is usually present on the final surface.  
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Traits of Brutalism   1. Use of béton brut - concrete massing 2. Boxy, horizontal forms 3. Top-heavy massing 4. Fenestration which is repetitively punched or striated  
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Rationalism   architecture is rooted in the timeless archetypes of human building, common to all cultures and times.  
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Traits of Rationalism   1. Pure, platonic shapes, volumes, and voids 2. Organizational systems which impart order and stability 3. Load-bearing mass (or appearance of)  
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Post Modernism   It reveled in being artificial and theatrical, with columns or arches supporting nothing, pumped-up cornices and weighty-looking rustication that sounded hollow when you tapped it.  
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Traits of Post-Modernism   1.Blending of Modernism with ornament 2.elements that have been exaggerated, flattened 3.Mixture of references from different sources 4.Exaggerated frontality of main facade 5.Contrasting forms with manner of production 6. Playfulness  
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Pop Art & Architecture   celebrates popular culture through appropriation of mass/consumer imagery, celebrity, and media  
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Traits of Pop Art & Architecture   1. Use of over-scaled elements. 2. Use of ‘novelty’ or ‘gimmick’ humorous elements. 3.Use of bold form and simple, bright colors and patterns. 4. abandons materiality in favor of methods of production/representation that reduce reality  
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Super-Modernism   aspire to impact the civic space with primal size and clean detailing which de-materializes the small scale in favor of the imposing & enigmatic  
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Super-Modernism   1)Large scale works of civic impact 2)Simple forms 3)Materials : steel structure and glass skin. 4)Visual detail minimized to enhance scalar impact 5)Structure: de-emphasized by hiding/shrinking, or over-emphasized by externally over-scaling  
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Culver City, CA   As part of creative financing, Smith convinces Culver City to allow innovative architecture as counting towards the “2-percent-for-art” allowance, making the projects viable.  
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Leon Max Showroom   Morphosis  
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Familian House   Frank Gehry  
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Nunotani Office Building   Peter Eisenman  
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Common Southern Vernacular   Dogtrot House & Shotgun House  
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The New Palladians   Loose group of British Neo-classicists who advocate architecture rooted in 16th-19th century styles:Robert Adam Julian Bicknell Leon Krier George Saumarez Smith Quinlan Terry  
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Henbury Rotunda   Julian Bicknell  
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The Barnes Foundation   Williams & Tsien  
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Conduitity   A Caldwell-made-up term to describe continuous volumetric forms which nestle and run parallel, similar to installed electrical conduit runs.  
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Pierre Vives   Zaha Hadid  
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