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___PRESENTACION DEL CURSO

PRIMERA PARTE

___EL GESTO ARQUITECTÓNICO

___QUÉ ES DISEÑAR

___SISTEMA ESPACIAL

___SISTEMA MATERIAL

___ESTILO Y ORNAMENTO

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___LA INVENCION DE LO CLASICO

___s20, FORMACION Y TRANSFORMACION DE LA ARQUITECTURA

___EL UNIVERSO PERSONAL DE GAUDI Y LA ABSTRACCION UNIVERSAL DE MIES VAN DER ROHE

___EL GUGGENHEIM VS EL KURSAAL

___PRESENTACION DEL CURSO

Ron Fricke served as cinematographer and editor on the famous nonverbal film Koyaanisqatsi (1982), then directed a couple documentary shorts including Chronos (1985), a nonverbal IMAX documentary. After his work on Chronos, Fricke designed an IMAX-compatible camera with the capacity to shoot motion-controlled images, a revolutionary concept in the IMAX industry. He then created Baraka (1993), a planetary odyssey filmed in 26 countries on 6 continents, shot across a time span of 14 months.

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The Stone Thermal Baths by Peter Zumthor. The Spa of Vals-les-Bains, designed by Peter Zumthor, redefines the very concept of public bathing, a mise en scène of water in all its aspects. A film by Richard Copans.

.........I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It’s not about paper, it’s not about forms. It’s about space and material.......... Peter Zumthor

The Georges Pompidou Centre. A giant meccano-like structure designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, a museum-factory that has become one of the most notable landmarks of the historical Parisian architectural landscape. A film by Richard Copans.

The first season of e² design concludes with a look to the future. Deeper Shades of Green focuses on remarkable thinkers and designers of our time: Ken Yeang, Werner Sobek and William McDonough. Nothing short of geniuses, these architects are challenging society and environmental design philosophically, psychologically, technically, aesthetically, politically, and culturally. Each is radically changing the face of not only architecture, but of environmentalism.

Peter Rice (1935–1992) was perhaps the most influential structural engineer of the twentieth century. Among the hundreds of buildings he worked on, his most notable masterpieces include the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre, the Menil Collection, and Lloyd's of London. A director of Ove Arup & Partners and a partner in Paris-based RFR, in 1992 Peter Rice was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture.

EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER. Charles and Ray Eames are among the most important American designers of this century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts.

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For five seasons, with Danny Forster as its host and producer, Build It Bigger investigated pioneering architectural and engineering projects around the world. Danny’s mission in each episode was to make complex architectural content accessible to a wide audience. Build It Bigger became the highest rated show on the Science Channel (where it moved after its first season), and won a 2010 Directors Guild of America award.

Abu Dhabi’s five-star Yas Hotel is the first to span a Formula 1 racetrack. Two hotel buildings on either side of a bridge are linked by a curvilinear 217m grid-shell structure that incorporates a striking illuminated steel and glass veil. Installed with approximately 5,000 custom-designed light fixtures, the outside of the building can be remotely programmed with vibrant lighting and media sequences that illuminate the racetrack and give the development a dramatic brand image.

___LA INVENCION DE LO CLASICO

Secrets of the Parthenon, PBS Airdate: January 29, 2008

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, almost destroyed by explosion, and disfigured by well-meaning renovations. It has gone from temple, to church, to mosque, to munitions dump. What could be next? How about a scientific search for the secrets of its incomparable beauty and astonishingly rapid construction? With unprecedented access, NOVA unravels the architectural and engineering mysteries of this celebrated ancient temple.  

Building the Great Cathedrals, PBS Airdate: October 19, 2010

Carved from 100 million pounds of stone, some cathedrals now teeter on the brink of catastrophic collapse. To save them, a team of engineers, architects, art historians, and computer scientists searches the naves, bays, and bell-towers for clues. NOVA investigates the architectural secrets that the cathedral builders used to erect their towering, glass-filled walls and reveals the hidden formulas drawn from the Bible that drove medieval builders ever upward.

Great Cathedral Mystery, PBS Airdate: February 12, 2014

The dome that crowns Florence’s great cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore—the Duomo—is a towering masterpiece of Renaissance ingenuity and an enduring source of mystery. Still the largest masonry dome on earth after more than six centuries, it is taller than the Statue of Liberty and weighs as much as an average cruise ship. Historians and engineers have long debated how its secretive architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, managed to keep the dome perfectly aligned and symmetrical as the sides rose and converged toward the center, 40 stories above the cathedral floor. His laborers toiled without safety nets, applying novel, untried methods. Over 4 million bricks might collapse at any moment—and we still don’t understand how Brunelleschi prevented it. To test the latest theories, a team of U.S. master bricklayers will help build a unique experimental model Duomo using period techniques. 

___EL UNIVERSO PERSONAL DE GAUDI Y LA ABSTRACCION UNIVERSAL DE MIES VAN DER ROHE

Con motivo de la Exposición Internacional de Barcelona de 1929, Mies van der Rohe construyó el Pabellón alemán –de vida efímera, desmontado meses después y reconstruido en 1986–, considerado por muchos la obra arquitectónica más importante del siglo XX. Mediante el uso combinado y geométrico del vidrio, el acero cromado y los diferentes tipos de piedra (muros de mármoles verdes y de ónice dorado, muros y suelos de travertino), el edificio propone una nueva concepción racional del espacio arquitectónico. En esta conferencia, el arquitecto y catedrático Luis Fernández-Galiano recorre la trayectoria del arquitecto alemán, desde la llegada a Berlín, sus colaboraciones con la diseñadora Lily Reich, la relación con el constructivismo y el neoplasticismo, y el exilio a Estados Unidos.

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A Constructive Madness wherein Frank Gehry and Peter Lewis spend a fortune and a decade, end up with nothing and change the world

Written by Jeffrey Kipnis, the Wexner Center's interim chief curator of exhibitions and curator of architecture and design, A Constructive Madness captures the human drama surrounding an incredibly significant, but ultimately unrealized, architectural project. Peter Lewis, chair of Ohio-based insurance giant The Progressive Corporation, hired architect Frank Gehry to design a house in suburban Cleveland.

Over the next nine years, the project grew in scope, ambition, and budget and became a touchstone for the architectÌs most experimental ideas. The Lewis house (and an enigmatic piece of red velvet) played a central role in transforming Gehry's style and his attitude toward the use of the computer as a creative tool in design.

Written by Jeffrey Kipnis, the Wexner Center's interim chief curator of exhibitions and curator of architecture and design, the film premiered in August at a benefit screening presented by the Aspen Filmfest. To Kipnis A Constructive Madness is "not a lecture or a lesson, but an entertaining story, a drama expressed in the medium of architecture." (61 mins.)