1. Art Nouveau was an experimental style of design where historical styles were rejected and motifs were used as a different approach to architecture. Barcelona, Spain and Paris, France are both places where this style is seen in. Antonio Gaudi had designed many buildings of this style in Spain. One of the more popular is Casa Battlo, an apartment building that he restored. Gaudi was interested in surrealism and the concept of skin and bones. He used this idea of bones and the human body as a motif for the new façade of the building that he was designing. Hector Guimard was a French architect who was also a key member of the Art Nouveau movement. He designed stations for the new electrified underground Paris mass-transit railroads, aka the Metropolitan (Roth, 514). His station designs were inspired by plants and made of cast iron and ceramic parts.
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2. “A house is a machine for living - it should be as practical as a typewriter, a telephone, an automobile” – Le Corbusier
Practicality and convenience is something that the modern movement was bringing to people. Typically only those who could afford it were receiving this sort of luxury. Le Corbusier designed an apartment complex in 1946 in France, for middle class citizens to live in – the Unite d’Habitacion. It was extremely practical, including daily necessities like an internal shopping street halfway up in the complex, a recreation area and children’s nursery on the roof, a grocery store, and more. These things, along with cheaper prices for a unit, made this residence a true machine for living – it was just easy to do. In my opinion, the idea of “less is more” can be related back to commodity, firmness and delight. As long as a building has those 3, I don’t think it needs anything else. Unite d’Habitacion is as simple as that. It has commodities in all the conveniences included for the residents. Firmness is there in the good construction, using concrete and a frame to built it, it stands several stories high and inhabits 1600 people. And lastly, the building is certainly delightful to the eye, using all Le Corbusier’s five points of architecture (pilotis, ribbon windows, free plan, roof space, and inspiration from the machine).
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I think this building and overall style of how it was designed was a huge inspiration for similar buildings today. The idea of conveniences and making things more practical for people is seen everywhere. A local example would be the Spring Garden Apartments on the UNCG – there is a food mart on the first floor, making it convenient for the residents to do grocery-shopping right there. The Bryan School of Business Building on campus also has a food court inside it to make it convenient for students there.
3. The conference room at Casa del Fascio by Giuseppe Terragni is shown (Massey, 87) in black and white. This modern interior is far from that, with a brightly colored graphic wall finishing off this conference room.
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great job
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