1. The 1950s and forward: The International Style (Modernism) Rules

4. Richard Neutra
The Lovell House, Hollywood Hills, 1929

10. The Troxell House, 1956, Pacific Palisades

11. Kaufmann House, Palm Springs

12. Rudolph Schindler
Lovell Beach House

13. The James Ead How House

15. Mies, Seagram’s Building, NYC

16. Mies, Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago

17. Glass Box clip

18. Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill
Union Carbide Building, NYC 1957

19. Hanover Trust, NYC 1953

23. John Hancock Tower, Chicago, 1965

24. Eero Saarinen Son of a Finnish architect, Eliel Emphasis on craft
Beaux Arts training at Yale

25. Trans World Airlines, Kennedy Airport, NYC, 1956

37. Stainless steel skin at base covering concrete; steel and rebar used on arching portion
Span equals height: 630’
Margin of error for top joint: 1/64th of an inch

38. Le Corbusier: La Tourette, Lyons, France, 1957

39. Beton Brut: Raw Concrete

41. The Maestro of Brutalism: Lou Kahn

42. “What does the building want to be”
Counter-Modernist: history acceptable BUT
Essence of the building’s use

43. National Assembly Building, Dacca, Bangladesh, 1962
Translation of function in to bold forms, clear planning, pure geometry, and simple structure.

44. Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth Texas

47. Servant and Served Spaces
Salk Laboratory, La Jolla, CA, 1965

52. Short clip

53. Library, Philips Exeter Academy, 1972

60. Boston City Hall

61. Le Corbusier: La Tourette, Lyons, France, 1957

62. Kallman, McKinnell, Knowles 1962

64. Scollay Square (Left: 1912; Right:before/after1960

65. 1976: AIA names the building the 6th greatest building in American history

66. Its form—described by some residents as a doughnut on stilts—funnels winds that gust off Boston Harbor and swirl across the vast, often empty plaza.

67. The preservation debate:
1988: survey concludes only 60% of the space is usable.
Energy inefficient.
The plaza: “One of the most disappointing places in America.”
1993: Menino becomes mayor: hates the building and plaza.
Plans to make it a hotel thwarted.