Biography 4: Charles and Ray Eames
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Transcript of 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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