Monticello

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Monticello

• Thomas Jefferson
• Date 1770-84 1796-1806
• Thomas Jeffersons House
• Period Georgian Style
• Medium Brick and Wooden Trim

John Armstrong, May 20, 2003
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The Royal Pavilion

• John Nash
• Date 1815-18
• Period Indian Gothic
• Medium Stone, Marble
• Brighton
• Onion shaped dome suggests Islamic influence

John Armstrong, May 20, 2003
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The Houses of Parliament

• Sir Charles Barry, A. Welvy Pugin
• 1836 London England
• Gothic Revival
• Architecture
• Known as the New Westminster Palace, this is the
  largest Gothic Revival structure. It exhibits
  repetitious symmetry in forms.

Submitted by Olena Bormashenko, May 16, 2003
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The Crystal Palace

• Joseph Paxton
• 1851
• Victorian
• Architecture
• A building exhibiting the innovations of the
  Industrial Revolution. It consisted of an iron
  frame with a glass membrane and was built within
  6 months.

Submitted by Olena Bormashenko, May 16, 2003
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Bauhaus

• Artist Walter Gropus / Art School at Dessau,
  Germany
• Date1925-26
• Historical Period Post
• Mediumglass, steel, and thin concrete veneer
• Description walls are a continuous horizontal
  surface of glass which reflect as well as
  transmit light. Three major blocks for
  classrooms, shops, and studios

Submitted by Raymond Cunningham, May 16 03
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Berlin Sports Palace

• ArtistAlbert Speer
• Date1934-35
• Historical Period Post Modern
• Mediumconcrete
• DescriptionSpeer was Hitler's chief architect.
  Speers use of classical orders continues into
  the twentieth century. Rather flattened out
  treatment of wall surface stately refined and
  dignified architecture.

Raymond Cunningham, 05/20/03
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Kauffman House

• Artist Frank Lloyd Wright
• Date 1936-37
• Historical Period cubism
• Medium building integrated with environment
• Description It is built over a waterfall,
  combining horizontality and the concrete block
  and contrasting solids and voids. Wright designed
  not only exterior but interior furnishings and
  stained glass windows as well.

Agnes Emri, May 16, 2003
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Notre Dame du Haut

• Artist Le Corbusier
• Date 1950-55
• Historical Period International Style
• Medium sculptural building
• Description Despite sculptural feel this
  building still satisfies structural and
  functional requirements. The interior has small
  stained glass windows which fill the interior
  with light.There is a play of curves and dynamic
  shapes but no geometric purism.

Submitted by Agnes Emri, May 20, 2003
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Seagram Building

• Mies Van Der Rohe
• 1956 - 58
• Historical Period Modern Architecture
• Medium Steel and glass based on ancient post
  lintel construction
• Description Purity of form and outlined with
  straight lines, smooth planes repetition of
  features.

Madhuri Hazarika, May 20. 2003
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Habitat

• Moshe Safdie
• 1967
• Historical PeriodModern Architecture
• Medium Prefabricated Units interlocked on site
• Description It allows for unlimited additions. A
  versatile visual and spatial combinations, which
  creates a sculptural environment.

Madhuri Hazarika, May 20. 2003
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A.T. T Building

• Artist Philip Johnson
• Date1981
• Historical period Modern
• Medium Ferro-concrete, marble
• Descriptionpost-modern style building in New
  York City break from the rectilinearity of the
  International Style with use of decorative
  key-hole shape on the top of it return to
  classical decorative motifs in lobby

Submitted by Shannon Hong May 20, 2003
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National Gallery East Wing

• Artist I.M. Pei
• Date 1974 to 1978
• Historical Period Modern
• Medium post-tensioned concrete, stone cladding
• Description Dramatic circulation space,
  triangular planning grid, semi-underground with
  pyramidal skylights. Calder mobile in atrium.

Submitted by Shannon Hong May 20, 2003