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When an architect focuses on only one design concept (form, physical considerations or human factors) the overall success of a building may suffer.

John Hancock Building, Boston (IM Pei)

Ayub Hospital, Dacca (Louis Kahn)

Housing at La Defence, France (Emile Aillaird)

History Faculty, MA (James Stirling)

Medical Faculty, Brussels (Lucien Kroll)

Kresge Auditorium, MA (Eero Saarinen)

Centre Pompideau, Paris (Piano and Rogers)

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How does architecture affect human interaction? Humans have always had a need to designate and organize spaces for specific uses for practicality, to inject social taboos (values, religion) to claim a place. In modern times, we further organize uses in the name of efficiency and machines.

Stoughton House, MA (HH Richardson)

Glessner House, MA (HH Richardson)

History Faculty, England (Stirling)

Exeter Library, NH (Kahn)

Indian Institute of Management, India (Kahn)

*Audio file is taken from the Designation and Organization of Use lecture from Spring 2010.

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Golden ratio, Fibonacci sequence, golden spiral: the reasoning behind the use of mathematics and geometry as a basis for the development of form.

Pyramids, Giza

Designs for Chaux (Claude Ledoux)

Stockholm Library, Sweden (Gunnar Asplund)

Guggenheim, New York (Frank Lloyd Wright)

US Pavilion at Expo, Montreal (Buckminster Fuller)

Peter Eisenman Houses

Dacca Capitol Buildings, Bangladesh (Louis Kahn)

Zollverein School of Design, Germany (Kazuyo Sejima)

*Audio file is taken from the Mathematics and Geometry lecture from Spring 2010.

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Three kinds of messages conveyed through architecture: a comparison of these messages in the Renaissance and in Modernism.

Order:

Villa Rotunda, Italy (Palladio)

Casa Rotunda, Switzerland (Stabio)

Bryn Mawr Dormitory, Penn. (Louis Kahn)

Complexity:

S. Carlo alla Quattro Fontane, Rome (Borromini)

Denver Museum of Art (Daniel Libeskind)

Technique:

S. Andrea, Italy (Alberti)

Schroeder House, Holland (Gerritt Rietveld)

Centre Pompideau, Paris (Piano and Rogers)