This preview shows page 1. Sign up to view the full content.
Unformatted text preview: th century. Function Architects Joseph Paxton Frank Gehry- Le Corbusier- Moshe Safdie- Habitat. Frank Lloyd Wright- Learned how to work with the land and embrace nature and space. Terms Romanesque- Romanesque, used arches, heavy walls, dark. Gothic- pointed arch. You could have any dimensional arch you want and still have the points meet at the same point. Also had a lot of light. Buttress- takes care of the added pressure from the “hoop” pressure and dissipates it. Romans were the first modern architects. Romans thought about the interior volume first then they built the building around it. The Greeks designed most of their buildings from the exterior in....
View Full Document
This note was uploaded on 04/09/2008 for the course ART 101 taught by Professor Maul during the Winter '08 term at Oregon State.
- Winter '08