PRAIRIE STYLE
1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Frank Lloyd Wright is responsible for forcing people out of their box like homes and into more open floor plans, known as the prairie style. He wanted his buildings to blend synonymously with nature instead of sticking out sorely from their surroundings. His Chicago homes used a layering of flat planes to create a time appropriate prairie house. He had a unique attention to detail for everything to flow and circulate, rethink the organization of the space and open up the space.
2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
In the text we read about how environment can influence architecture. Wrights designs are a perfect example. He wanted his structures to blend with their surrounds and to fit the time and place during which they were created. He used elements and style of the region the homes were built to accent them and make them look very deliberate and planned, which they were. He also used these elements to influence the inside of his homes and to challenge the way people viewed living space, moving from box like living to a flowing interior space that was as pleasing visually as it was to actually live in.
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of Architecture?
This film helped to branch the elements of design with an actual perspective of its use. Wright designed the way he did to blend nature with his building harmoniously with the surroundings. I like that the film showed actual structures so that you could compare how different they were to others in the same geographical area.
4. Why did you choose the films that you watched?
I personally chose this film because when I visited NYC in 2008 I saw an exhibit on FLW at the Guggenheim museum. It interested me then and this gave a lot of insight on his personal reasons for designing in the manner that he did. I also know that he designed many of the structures around WNY and that interested me.
ARCHITECTURE: THE SCIENCE OF DESIGN
1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Architecture is as much a science as it is an art. Science plays a large role in assuring the safety of the buildings and structures that are created and in making sure those inside are safe as well. Skyscrapers need to be made of materials that are strong enough to support the weight of such a large structure, but also not add unnecessary weight and that are also flexible to allow for building sway. The materials also need to be able to withstand potential natural disasters as well as accidental disasters, such as if a fire breaks out on an upper floor for a period of time. All of these things play a great role in safety. Computer technology is also playing a grand role in the science of design. Homes can be almost completely controlled - from lights, to heat, to alarm systems, to televisions, with a single remote or handheld device. Computer technology is being integrated into every aspect of our lives.
2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
This video relates to the text in that the text also discussed out concrete is no longer a brittle, weak building material. We can now fortify it with mesh, steel, and fuse it with other materials to make it fit our needs. We can create concrete the resists erosion for use in roadways and we can also create concrete that is very strong but also somewhat flexible to be used in tall buildings or bridges to allow for movement of the structure surrounding it.
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of Architecture?
This film helped to show that there is more to creating a building or structure than just designing something that looks pleasing to the eye. Safety is a huge concern and technology is making it easier and easier for us to create safer buildings at a lower cost, more environmentally friendly and all the while keep the creature comforts we have come to expect.
4. Why did you choose the films that you watched?
I chose this film because I am going to school to be a mechanical engineer. This peaked my interests because it was about technology as well as materials and how technology and science are constantly improving them.
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