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Conceptual Intention Vs Contextual Reality Team 10 AB CIAM AND TEAM 10 CONCEPTUAL INTENTION VS CONTEXTUAL REALITY RIBS OF ISOLATION 11222 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY AND THEORY: CRITIQUE HENRY LO, LEONARDO PATE, DANIEL SAGURIT, JENINA TOLENTINO, TRAN XUAN TRUONG C D AB INTEGRATING DISCIPLINES S ENT OLM ENR SOCIAL ORDER ENT TUD IN S DC SE REA ENVIRONMENT ++ = INC THE UNIVERSITY AS IT SEEMS TO BE: BUILDINGS CONTRIBUTE TO THE ISOLATION OF SPECIFIC DISCIPLINES CHANGES OF ATTITUDE AS A MASS HOUSING BUILDING FOR THE PUBLIC DESIGNED WITH HEAVY ‘MACHINE-LIKE’ MODERNIST INFLUENCES, IT BECAME DIFFICULT FOR IT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SMITHSONS’ ORIGINAL + = INTENT OF GIVING IT A SENSE OF PLACE, IDENTITY AND HOMECOMING. THE ‘STREETS’ WERE ALSO NARROWER THAN ORIGINAL CONCEPT IN GOLDEN LANE, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO BE USED AS COMMUNAL SPACES. THE GRAND IDEA OF ‘STREETS IN THE SKY’ CIRCULATION SPACES WERE INSTEAD VANDALISED AND BECAME OUTRIGHT DANGEROUS. COMMUNAL SPACE 1963-73 BERLIN FREE UNIVERSITY RELATIONSHIP TO THE STREET CANDILIS, JOSIC, WOODS COMMUNITY ‘STREETS IN THE SKY’ + = ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM - CAN PEOPLE REALLY BE CHANGED? + = ‘STEM’ & ‘WEB’ UNPREDICTABILITY OF THE FUTURE BUILT EXPECTED THE UNIVERSITY IS COMPOSED OF INDIVDUALS AND GROUPS, WORKING ALONE OR TOGETHER, IN DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES. WHEN INDIVUDALS WORK TOGETHER THEY TAKE ON NEW INDIVIDUALS GROUPS CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOP NEW NEEDS. ‘STEM’ AND WEB’ E THREE KEY AIMS OF THE PROJECT: MER -CREATION OF AN HARMONIOUS HUMAN ENVIRONMENT GIN -ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ORGANIS STRUCTURING PRINCIPLE PRINCIPLE FOR HUMAN HABITAT G IS SUE -POSSIBILITY OF FUTURE GROWTH AND CHANGE S W ITH SO CIA BUILT ACTUAL BERLIN FREE UNIVERSITY IN CONTEXT L H OU SIN SURROUNDING SUBURB OF DAHLEM G - CR UNHURRIED GRAND AVENUES IME GRAND EUROPEAN MANORS , L AC LOW DENSITY K O F M AI NT BFU EN HIGH DENSITY STREET, PASSAGEWAYS AND CORRIDORS AN CE HIGHLY INNOVATIVE / NOVEL ARCHITECTURAL IDEA WITHIN STOIC LANDSCAPE , M JUXTAPOSING MODERN ARCHITECTURE IS S US E E ON NEW BABYLON BABYLON BABYLON BABYLON BABYLON BABYLON BABYLON BABYLON BABYLON BABYLON NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON NEW BABYLON NEW ON WORKED WITH CONSTANT CONSTANT CONSTANT CONSTANT CONSTANT CONSTANT CONSTANT WITH WITH WITH WITH WITH WITH WITH WORKED WORKED WORKED WORKED WORKED WORKED WORKED R CONSTANT WITH WORKED O NOTION OF PLAY OF NOTION NOTION OF PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF NOTION NOTION NOTION NOTION NOTION NOTION NOTION NOTION NOTION OF PLAY OF NOTION F VAN EYCK EYCK EYCK EYCK EYCK VAN VAN VAN VAN VAN U EYCK VAN P T R PURPOSE C O U JE UNI TO INTEGRATE PHYSICAL, SOCIAL AND TEMPORAL MILIEU INTO ONE R CT T I HABITAT S NT INTENDED TO DRAW IN RESIDENTS OF DAHLEM TO MAKE THEM RETHINK THEIR L EN A T VIEWS / SHED THEIR URBAN SUBURBAN IDENTITY, AND CONVERT TO A MORE N IO N IO S ‘HUMANISTIC WAY OF LIFE’ T U THE STEM IT CRITICISM / HOW IT WAS RECIEVED T PEDESTRIAN ‘STREETS IN THE SKY’ S BUILDING PROGRAM AND CIRCULATION WAS PROBLEMATIC FOR PEOPLE WHO N BOURGEOIS I CITY OF TOULOUSE HAD DIFFICULTIES UNDERSTANDING ITS CONCEPTUAL MEANING; HENCE WAS G VENTURI, SCOTT BROWN NOT UTILISED EFFECTIVELY IN LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS L DMINISTRATION CULTURAL COMMERCIAL SOCIAL SOME STUDENTS REGARDED BFU AS A ‘FAILED EXPERIMENT’ AT THE LEAST D LICY/A AND PO IN CTS BECAUSE DIRECT CONSULTATIONS WITH THE STUDENT BODY WAS ABSENT HITE OJECT REACH LOWER CLASS W RC PR ES STAG STUDENTS: ‘IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE A DEMOCRATIC PRODUCT BY MEANS OF AN N A NATION WORKERS D WEE AUTOCRATIC PROCESS’ BET VEHICULAR ALGERIAN IMMIGRANTS PROTEST, SCHOOL CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE CLOSURE SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST, SCHOOL CLOSURE SCHOOL PROTEST, TS GEOGRAPHICAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SEGREGATION PROFESSOR AT ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS BEAUX DES ECOLE AT PROFESSOR PROFESSOR AT ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS ARTS BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX BEAUX DES DES DES DES DES DES DES DES DES DES DES DES DES DES DES ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE ECOLE AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR AT ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS BEAUX DES ECOLE AT PROFESSOR EN CANDILIS CANDILIS CANDILIS CANDILIS CANDILIS EEM AGR DIS ORGANISATION OF TOULOUSE-LE-MIRAIL: CONTINUOUS, LINEAR, NON-HIERARCHAL, LIBERAL TEAM 10 PRIMER SMITHSON HIGH RENTS PROPERTY VALUED CE AN FR SOCIAL HOUSING 968 L Y 1 MINIMAL INVESTMENT SA MA PO O PR F O S S S N E O N N I L O T U I F U S T T S POSITIVE IMAGE A I E L T C CULTURAL CENTRE U S C N U P I S THE MAN IN THE STREET PLANNED EXPANSION O 1966-72 ROBIN HOOD GARDENS HOUSING ESTATE L E SHADRACH WOODS TOULOUSE-LE-MIRAIL P A SMITHSONS H N T SECONDARY CITY CENTRE G N 1970 NEGATIVE IMAGE N O I I O LOW INCOME T W N RUNDOWN A O O I CRIME C S R U E S G D G U Y E N C L IS N A N D D GEOGRAPHICAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SEGREGATION IN TOULOUSE I A H O I C G P E S L N 1971 TOULOUSE A P S I A R O I E O R C R G FIRST PHASE OF TOULOUSE-LE-MIRAIL 1972 ITHACA N U RESIGNATION OF CANDILIS FROM THE PROJECT O G O MILAN TRIENNALE E S O CANDILIS- “PROBLEMS OF OUR POSITION , ‘THE GREATER NUMBER’ F R C CLIMATE OF MAY 1968 TOWARDS POLITICAL CHANGING CONDITIONS O I P IN THE CONTEXT WE WORK IN” M F 1973 BERLIN S 1968 MILAN DIALECTIC OF ARCHITECT FOR THE CLIENT OR PEOPLE A O O FIRST PHASE OF BERLIN FREE UNIVERISTY D N L WOODS IN SERIOUS HEALTH DECLINE N O O ORGANISED BY UNGERS E C B MATRIX/GRID AS ORGANISATIONAL PRINCIPLE G E M VIETNAM WAR, COLD WAR , A Y ‘MODERN MOVEMENT’MART STAM ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION L 1974 ROTTERDAM L S M.E HAEFELI A 1967 PARIS LE CORBUSIER BAKEMA- ‘ARCHITECTURBANISM’ A RUDOLF STEIGER I C A I WORK PROGRAM HANS SCHMIDT C T S DEATH OF SHADRACH WOODS I PAUL ARATARIA O T REISSUE OF A L FREDERICH GUBLER REFLECTION OF WOODS’ IDEAS AND BUILT PROJECTS S C RICHARD DUPIERREUX O ‘STATEMENT OF CONVICTION’ E INSTITUT COOPERATION-INTELLECTUELLE D P J INCREASING POLITICISATION PIERRE CHAREAU N D O OF VIEWS REACTING TO THE VICTOR BOURGEOIS I A R ERNST MAY P WIDER SOCIAL CONFLICT L P HYGIENE GABRIEL GUEVREKIAN THE FUNCTIONAL CITY A WORLD IN CRISIS A URBANISM HUGO HARING R G C JUAN DE ZAVALA I - N I 1966 URBINO LUCIENNE FLORENTIN T LE CORBUSIER I G S MADAME DE MANDROT L ROCHAT N U STANDARDIZATION O I ANDRE LURCAT O GOVERNMENTS AND P R H.R VON DER MUHLL H ORGANISED BY DE CARLO U GINO MAGGIONI G T E DISCUSSION ON “TO MOVE” OR “TO STAY” HUIBRECHT HOSTE N SIEGFRIED GIEDION DWELLING WORK CIRCULATION RECREATION I C S INTERNAL CONFLICT ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF I WERNER M MOSER U G TEAM 10 AS A “CLUB”, SIMILAR TO CIAM EDUCATION SCHOOL PRIMARY R JOSEF FRANK R N WHO SHOULD ATTEND THESE MEETINGS? PIERRE JEANNERET T H A GERRIT RIETVELD S G H I ALBERTO SARTORIS E 1965 BERLIN ARCHITECTURE DEBATE THE MODERN FERNANDO GARCIA MERCADAL C H R MODERN ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION MS WEBER 1976 SPOLETO TADEVOSSIAN R A W Y OPEN MEETING DISCUSSING BUILDING AND PLANNING PROBLEMS CIAM GRID 1977-83 CENTRAL LIBRARY, ROTTERDAM T T GRADUA ORGANISED BY DE CARLO BAKEMA I CANDILIS-JOSIC-WOODS BERLIN OFFICE - FREE UNIVERISTY BERLIN L SOCIA S L AN DECLINING HEALTH OF BAKEMA C PRESSION D EC O HOLLEIN- CANDLE SHOP IN VIENNA DE O GREAT NOM MEMBERSHIP OF TEAM 10 P O BAKEMA- PAMPUSPLAN AMSTERDAM THE IC S T TA REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST ‘WEB’ DE CARLO- COLLEGIO DEL COLLE URBINO BIL N IS FREE SPONTANEOUS DISCUSSION I A VAN EYCK- WHEELS OF HEAVEN CHURCH TI ON SHADRACH WOODS N SMITHSONS- VILLAGE IN SOMMERSET O UNGERS AND WEWERKA- HOUSING COMPLEXES BERLIN I 1977 BONNIEUX ‘WEB’ NON-CENTRIC - POLYCENTRIC THROUGH USE T A OPEN - FLEXIBLE - INFINITE - LIFE PROCESS IN R 1930 C R G E I A S ‘STEM’ M IN ORGANISED BY CANDILIS IN HIS G M S HOLIDAY HOME - FAMILIAL AMBIENCE I N T A SHADRACH WOODS L T REDRAFTING OF TEAM 10 AIMS FOR THE FUTURE 1962-71 TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL N I A O RECOGNITION OF A TENATIVE PRESENT CANDILIS, JOSIC, WOODS A 1930 CIAM III N R T A STILL TESTING OUT IDEAS I L U BRUSSELS B S 1928 CIAM I A HAVE NOT FOUND A SOLUTION FOR A COMPLEX CITY R G N A D N 1929 CIAM II D / I E H L LA SARRAZ R T S L N 1933 CIAM IV E E I C FRANKFURT AU MAIN G ‘ARCHITECTURBANISM’ E 1924 VILLE RADIEUSE I E W I 0 LE CORBUSIER O R D ATHENS N 0 N E D A 0 HIERARCHAL ORGANIZATION - ZONING - STATIC O .MINIMAL SUBSISTENCE DWELLING’ L L N L ‘TOTAL SPACE’ 0 L ISSUE OF URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE A ASSEMBLY-LINE METHODS P 0 O O A RESOLUTION OF STRUCTURE AND ORGANISATION E LE CORBUSIER, GIDEON PROBLEM OF HIGH RENTS TO LE CORBUSIER- FUNCTIONAL CITY 1 L C R W INFRASTRUCTURE INTO EXISTING CONTEXT LOW WAGE EARNERS IT - U A FORMAL ORGANSIATION IN THE A METHOD FOR DEFINING, STRUCTURING, LE CARRE BLEU I N H T C I POSSIBILITIES OF ARCHITECT CONTROL ADVANCEMENT OF THE CAUSE CONTROLLING THE CITY WOODS N C A L C RISK OF AUTONOMOUS DEVELOPMENT U OF NEW ARCHITECTURE IN EUROPE L O R N N I R C E O SHADRACH WOODS - ‘STEM’ CATERED TO THE GENERAL WELFARE I E T T GROPIUS- ‘LOW, MID, HIGH-RISE BUILDING?’ O B T ‘STEM’ - LINEAR CENTRIC - LIBERAL - CONTINUITY - INFINITE A S OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES EVERYWHERE N R A L A R F A BUILDING WITH THE IDEA OF “OPEN, INVITING, CENTRALLY LOCATED F OSKAR HANSEN E R L U 1962 ROYAUMONT I B AND ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE” THAT WOULD ASSIMILATE THE CITY, F I C M P L JOHN VOELCKER N T THROUGH THE LOCATION OF THE BUILDING NEXT TO THE MARKET, THE I O O C GIANCARLO DE CARLO I YONA FRIEDMAN - EXTENSIVE USE OF GLASS AND THE POSITIONING OF THE READING T R P T S UNIVERSALISM ROOM, WHICH JUTS OUT FROM THE REST OF THE BUILDING.
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