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Planning out land allocation / private property
Very different from how native americans divided up land.
“Articles of Agreement for Springfield, Massachusetts, 1636” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 4-7.
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pattern/design book for churches and spires
James Gibbs, “A Book of Architecture, 1728” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 16-22.
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gentleman fr
dispute over design / functionality
based on maison quarter (famous roman building in france)
Thomas Jefferson, “Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia State Capitol, 1785” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning, 28-32.
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grid, wide thoroughfare axes,
Pierre Charles L’Enfant, “P.C. L’Enfant’s Plan for the Capitol City, 1791” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning, 32-36.
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American pattern book
critical of european designs
Asher Benjamin, “The American Builder’s Companion, 1806” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 39-43.
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On critique of US architecture in Europe
United states architecture too boring, focused too much on function rather than form
Horatio Greenough, “H. Greenough on Function in American Architecture, 1843, 1852” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning, 77-90.
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cottage residences
Andrew Jackson Downing, “Cottage Residences” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 151-71.
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central park
Fredrick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, “A Description of Central Park, 1858” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning, 174-182.
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international style
lightweight structures, new materials, a modular system, an open plan, a frame structure, and the use of simple geometric shapes.
Henry Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, “The International Style, 1932” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning, 488-493.
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Downsides of urban planning and determining which communities are built / receive capital.
North end in boston.
city planning in theory vs practice
“that the science of city planning and the art of city design, in real life for real cities, must come the science and art of catalyzing and nourishing these close-grained working relationships”
Jane Jacobs, “Introduction of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 535-44.
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“An open-armed, polychromatic, plaster madonna in this position would have been more imageful but unsuitable for a Quaker institution that eschews all outward symbols - as do Crawford Manor and most orthodox Modern architecture, which reject ornament and association in the perception of forms.”
“Modern architecture (and Crawford Manor as its exemplar) has tended to shun the heraldic and denotative in architecture and to exaggerate the physiognomic and connotative - Modern architecture uses expressive ornament and shuns explicit symbolic ornament.”
“By limiting itself to strident articulation of the pure architectural elements of space, structure, and program, Modern architecture’s expression has become a dry expressionism, empty and boring - and in the end irresponsible. Ironically, the Modern architecture of today, while rejecting explicitly symbolism and frivolous applique ornament, has distorted the whole building into one big ornament. In substituting “articulation” for decoration, it has become a duck”.
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, Learning From Las Vegas (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997): 87-103.
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be quirky
“the doctrine ‘less is more’ bemoans complexity and justifies exclusion for expressive purposes”
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002): 16-19.
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Architecture of motion
Curves, complex shapes, etc
Greg Lynn, Animate Form (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), 9-41.
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Boundaries, connections, networks, clocks, processes, discontinuities, habitats, communities
William Mitchell, “Boundaries/Networks” in Krista Sykes, Constructing A New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009 (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010): 226-45.
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On art, creative spaces, muses, influence of other art on architecture, inspiration
Samuel Mockerbee, “The Rural Studio” in Krista Sykes, Constructing A New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009 (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010): 105-11.
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Urban sprawl, new urbanism, walkability, designed communities, zoning laws, multi use spaces
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise and Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (New York: North Point Press, 2000), 3-20, 214, 257-265.
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skyscrapers
tall office buildings
"the winding stream at its base, teh drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, for ever follows function"
"that the life is the recognizable in its expression that form ever follows function. This is the law"
Louis Sullivan, “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered, 1896” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning, 340-46.
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plan of chicago
congregating in cities
Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, “Plan of Chicago, 1909” in Leland Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 439-445.
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