I Altes Museum (Schinkel) Berlin and the Guggenheim Museum (Wright) NYC (How does each building express the qualities of the architecture of their era and what are the historical, philosophical and architectural differences? How did society change between the two projects? How did technology change?)
II TWA Terminal Building (Saarinen) NYC and San Pancras Train Station (Barlow) London (What are the differences in the societies and historic times, and how are those differences expressed in the types of buildings, the organization of their cities? How are they similar? How has technology changed and how does their current technology shape the architecture? Are there symbolic or referential elements to the designs?)
Include your name, class and word count at the top of each essay.
Use illustrations (plans, sections, site plans and photos) to develop your comparisons.
Integrate your analysis of the paired buildings.
Use MLA format for bibliography, footnotes and citations.
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You may write one 500 word essay for extra credit (25 points) on one of the following comparisons:
2. Barriere La’ Villette (Ledox) Paris, Stockholm Public Library (Asplund) Stockholm
3. Continuous Monument (Superstudio) and THE LINE, NEOM (Morphosis)
4. National Congress Building, (Niemeyer) Brasilia and National Assembly Building (Kahn) in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Kahn)
5. Villa Savoye (Corbusier) Poissey and The Barcelona Pavilion (Van Der Rohe) Barcelona
6. Reliance Tower (Burnham and Root) and Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper Project (Van Der Rohe) Berlin
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For all your essays:
Use references (MLA format): your text and external sources with citations (please, impress me with your sources!).
You may want to cover the following information for each building (feel free to add comparisons that you feel are important):
design (how it came to be / was conceptualized / created)
layout (adjacencies)
culture
building type
architect/designer (who made this, how and why)
patron (sponsor/client)
site (context/topography/physical features)
users and uses
dates
history
locations
spaces (what happens in the spaces and how the design supports those activities)
materials (what they are used for, where they come from)
art
techtonics
urban issues (if appropriate)
influences
other sites influenced by this work
importance
Use MLA format.
