Exploring Major Architectural Sites and Styles

By Megan, Jenny , and Kristina

Eiffel Tower

Height 934 ft; weight 10,100 tons; cost $1 million Repainted every 7 years- 60 tons of paint used Construction- iron, 4 base sloped arches, 3 horizontal stories, 4

sloped arches merging into one single tower

Originally intended as a challenge to build a 900 ft. iron structure over the Champ-de- Mars, to last 20 years, Gustave Eiffel chosen to be the creator out of 107 designers. There was controversy over the structure, because Frenchmen thought it was an ugly work and shouldn’t be displayed.

Center Pavillion

Created by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano from 1972-1976 as a modern art museum, made out of high tech steel and glass. This is a modern styled building with colorful transparent tubing to provide visitors with an exciting exterior as well as interior.

Photo, exterior · Centre Pompidou · Paris, France

Contemporary Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

Wright evolved a new concept of interior space in architecture. Rejecting the existing view of rooms as single-function boxes, Wright created overlapping and interpenetrating rooms within shared spaces. He used screening devices and subtle changes in ceiling heights to create the idea of defined space as opposed to enclosed space.

He designed and built Falling Water in 1936 in Pennsylvania.

The Guggenheim Art Museum took 3 years to build in 1956 in New York, New York

Interior Spaces Baroque 1625-1675

Characteristics- dramatic lighting (chiaroscuro), 3 dimensional, elaborate, decorative, representational of church and state, dome shaped instead of narrow isles

“baroque” French for “rough or imperfect pearl”, fitting the motivation to awe rather than depict a realistic vision

Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France, 1661 to 1774. Photo, interior of chapel

Baroque

Most popular artists Bernini, Michelangelo, and Borromini

Baroque artists used ceilings as their canvas, and applied the paint thickly and vibrantly

Rococo Definition- excessively ornate or intricate

of or relating to an artistic style especially of the 18th century characterized by fanciful curved asymmetrical forms and elaborate ornamentation

Louis XIV's desire to glorify his dignity and the magnificence of France had been well served by the monumental and formal qualities of most seventeenth-century French art. But members of the succeeding court began to decorate their elegant homes in a lighter, more delicate manner. This new style has been known since the last century as "rococo," from the French word, rocaille, for rock and shell garden ornamentation.

Fête Champêtre, 1718/21Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684�1721)19 /16 x 25 3/8 in.Oil on panel

Rococo First emerging in the decorative

arts, the rococo emphasized pastel colors, sinuous curves, and patterns based on flowers, vines, and shells.

Rococo is seen both as the climax and fall of Baroque art. After the heavy works created in the Baroque style artists were ready for a change. The Rococo manner was a reaction against the "grand manner" of art identified with the baroque formality and rigidity of court life.

Rococo Basilica at Ottobeuren (Bavaria): architectural spaces flow together and swarm with life

Tower of Babel “Babel” if broken down- Baa=gate, el=god The tale of the Tower of Babel, from Genesis 11: 1-9, is an

"explanation" of why there are so many different languages. Tower of Babel is a form of a Ziggaurat- built in a circular fashion

with an ascending staircase that terminates in a shrine at the top

The Tower of Babel did in fact exist: it was a seven-stage ziggurat (stepped pyramid) with a temple to the god Marduk at the top. It was called Etemenanki, or 'the temple of the platform between heaven and earth', and was built in the city of Babylon sometime during the 6th or 7th century BC.

Works Cited

Eiffel Tower- http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/pdf/about_the%20Eiffel_Tower.pdf?id=4_11 Center Pavilion http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Centre_Pompidou.html/cid_2348201.gbi

Falling Water http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Falling_Water_01.jpg

Guggenheim- http://www.ny.com/museums/images/guggenheim-lg.jpg Fete Champetre-

http://www.artic.edu/aic/education/sciarttech/images/watteau.jpg Rococo Basilica at Ottobeuren (Bavaria)

http://www.salisbury.edu/modlang/romangermany/images/amalienburg.jpg http://www.essential-architecture.com/STYLE/b04-Ottobeuren-basilika.jpg

Tower Of Babel- http://artcess.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/tower-of-babel.jpg,