Week 1
These introduction videos provide instructions for completing the Weekly Discussion Forums and Creative Research. They are taken from ID 246. The format is exactly the same for ID 247. Only the historical content is different.
Discussion Forum Guidelines (same format as ID 246)
Creative Research (same format as ID 246)
Week 2
Student Presentations (Same format as ID 246)
Antoni Gaudi, The Casa Mila
Sullivan & Adler, Auditorium Building, Chicago.
Week 3
Red House — Part 1
Red House — Part 2
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Frank Lloyd Wright — Overview
Week 4
Rietveld-Schroder House
Rietveld-Schroder House
Week 5
Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye, by Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye, by Le Corbusier
History of the American Skyscraper
Russian Revolution and the Suprematists’ — origins of Modernism and Abstraction
Use the youtube link to launch this video: Revolution of the Black Square
Week 6
In 1920, women in the U.S. gained the right to vote - but only after a struggle that lasted more than 70 years! Finally the 19th Amendment was passed!
LINK: Art Deco collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco-style skyscraper located on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
It was the tallest building in the world for 40 years. This video goes over the size of the building and other interesting facts about building, etc…
Barcelona Pavilion — Mies van der Rohe, 1929
Week 7
Hitler’s Plan for Berlin: Germania by Albert Speer
Fendi Fashion House Relocates to the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome (Previously Mussolini’s new capital of Rome)
Fendi buys Mussolini’s Capital building as new headquarters, Roma.
Johnson & Wax Building, by F. L. Wright
Maison de Verre (the first Glass House) by Pierre Chareau, in Paris
The Miller House by Eero Saarinen
Week 8
Barcelona Pavilion — Mies van der Rohe
Farnsworth House — Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Glass House, Philip Johnson, New York Times Video and Walk Through
Glass House, by Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
Week 9
Le Corbusier - Unite d’ Habitation
Le Corbusier Unite d’ Habitation
Family Lodging in Guise
Week 10
Kenzo Tange: The Yoyogi Olympic Gymnasiums
Week 11
Louis Kahn - Short Documentary
Oscar Niemeyer on the Culture Show
Brasilia — Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer at 101 — interview
Brasilia — sketches
1980 Pritzker Prize: Luis Barragan
Luis Barragan — Home & Studio
Casa Gilardi: the last house built by Mexican architect Luis Barragán
Week 12
Jean Nouvel — Nemausus 1
Le Corbusier — The Cloister at La Tourette
What is Postmodern Architecture?
What is Post-Modernism?
Post-Modern Architecture
The Memphis Group — 1980’s (David Bowie Collection)
Week 13
Venturi House
Memphis Design Group
In honor of the anniversary of the fire at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the following vides are meant as a resource.
Week 14
Renzo Piano - Pompidou Center
Daniel Libeskind — Jewish Holocaust Museum, Berlin, Germany
Zaha Hadid — An Architectural Legacy