history of modern architecture
section 15b 1990-now
humanitarian, participatory, and creative
Primary school
Gando, Burkina Faso (1999-2001)
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965)
(also above and in video)
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video & audio
BIG
Sky City One (2012 – 2015 expected)
Changsha, Hunan, China
Broad Group (owner/developer, architect, contractor)
prefabricated
sustainable and self-sufficient?
Diébédo Francis Kéré, 2014
installation at Royal Academy of Arts, London
exhibit - Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined
Christchurch Cardboard Cathedral
Christchurch, New Zealand (2013)
Shigeru Ban (born 1957)
(also in video)
designed as temporary replacement for church damaged in 2011 earthquake
also shown:
emergency cubicles post-tsunami Japan &
cardboard church relocated from Japan to post-earthquake Taiwan
example of new "smart" material research
humanitarian (see above)
humanitarian (see above)
"phenomenology" (note above) and other
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phenomenology (huh?)
considers sensory, tactile qualities, human movement and perception
Chapel of Saint Ignatius_Seattle University
Seattle, WA, 1994-1997
Steven Holl (born 1947)
(also in video)
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Simmons Hall_MIT student housing
Cambridge, MA 2001
also Steven Holl, above
same ideas, larger scale
“light and air through lungs”
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computer-aided, expressive, deconstructed?
New York by Gehry (also called 8 Spruce St.)
NYC, New York (2006-2010)
Frank Gehry (born 1929)
also video below on bilbao (not assigned)
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Gehry at Bilbao (not assigned)
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small
YETA-(IN)VISIBLE HUT
LAB-ZERO
2010, Rovereto, Italy
prefabricated
sustainable and self-sufficient?