Biography 4: Charles and Ray Eames

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Falling  water  –  Frank  Lloyd  Wrights  crowning  achievement  -­‐  It  was  classed  as  organic  architecture  -­‐  ‘Best  all  Gme  work  of  American  architecture’  -­‐  Wright  shared  his  love  of  nature  with  the  clients,  he  Kaufmans  -­‐   The  clients  wanted  to  celebrate  the  landscape  of  their  favorite  country  hideaway  

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Cubism  -­‐  an  early  20th-­‐century  style  and  movement  in  art,  especially  painGng,  in  which  perspecGve  with  a  single  viewpoint  was  abandoned  and  use  was  made  of  simple  geometric  shapes,  interlocking  planes,  and,  later,  collage.  Fauvism  -­‐  a  style  of  painGng  with  vivid  expressionisGc  and  non-­‐naturalisGc  use  of  colour  that  flourished  in  Paris  from  1905  and,  although  short-­‐lived,  had  an  important  influence  on  subsequent  arGsts,  especially  the  German  expressionists.    

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Herman  Miller  and  Vitra  are  sGll  manufacturing  today  as  furniture  manufacturers    

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-­‐  Plywood  with  rosewood  veneer  first  produced  by  Herman  Millar    

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-­‐  Plywood  with  rosewood  veneer  first  produced  by  Herman  Millar    

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The  drawings  forfabricaGon    

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Designed  in  a  mulGtude  of  different  configuraGons    

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Fibreglass  shell  on  a  metal  and  Gmber  base    

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Designed  in  a  mulGtude  of  different  configuraGons    

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-­‐  Saarinen's  original  futurisGc  design  featured  a  prominent  wing-­‐shaped  thin  shell  roof,  which  was  the  main  terminal;  unusual  tube-­‐shaped  departure-­‐arrival  corridors,  originally  wrapped  in  red  carpet  

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The  illustraGons  we  done  to  describe  acGviGes  within  the  house  

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From  the  bridge  house  concept  the  Eames  set  a  new  set  of  problems.    1)  not  destroy  the  meadow  and,    

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This  roof  plan  and  floor  plan  allows  us  to  understand  the  relaGonship  to  the  context  and  environment  and  the  interior  space  by  showing  the  roof  plan  in  immediate  correlaGon  with  the  floor  plan.    

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This  roof  plan  and  floor  plan  allows  us  to  understand  the  relaGonship  to  the  context  and  environment  and  the  interior  space  by  showing  the  roof  plan  in  immediate  correlaGon  with  the  floor  plan.    

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