Related people/organizations
Robert Venturi (subject)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (subject)
Stanley Tigerman (subject)
Le Corbusier (subject)
Richard Meier (subject)
Marcel Duchamp (subject)
Peter Eisenman (subject)
Leon Battista Alberti (subject)
Aldo Rossi (subject)
Joseph Kosuth (subject)
Charles Jencks (subject)
Antoni Gaudí (subject)
Christian Hubert (speaker)
James Wines (speaker)
Philip Johnson (subject)
Paul Rudolph (subject)
Date
1979
Description
Giuseppe Zambonini and Open Atelier of Design (OAD) students discuss socio-economic class and architecture. Impact of color. 46:15 New talk: James Wines. Offers frame of reference to describe the current architectural situation. Stuck in modernism. There are many architectures. Quickly reviews architectural history. Glass buildings and energy use. Big issues for young architects: Communication; Energy conservation. Disconnect between what people like and what architects design. Corbusier: Villa Savoye. La Tourette. Venturi: mother’s house. Fascism. Desire to create universal iconography. Rossi: Gallaratese. New York Five. Eisenman most intelligent: structuralist/conceptualist. Formalist. Wines disagrees with Eisenman’s use of the word conceptual. Charles Jencks: The anecdotal.
Identifier
KA0130_OA_24
Use Restrictions
Digitization of audiotapes funded by a grant obtained by Robert Kirkbride from Parsons' School of Constructed Environment.
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