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link to an essay on Ada Louise Huxtable
Joseph M.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Colosseum_in_Rome%2C_Italy_-_April_2007.jpg/800px-Colosseum_in_Rome%2C_Italy_-_April_2007.jpg
Name: COLOSSEUM
Location: Rome, Italy
Built by : Titue Vespasian
Built in : 70-80 AD
Caleb, C.
the Burj Khalifa A.K.A Burj Dubai
location: Dubai United Arab Emirates
Construction started: September 21, 2004 Opened: January 4, 2010
architects: Adrian Smith, William F. Baker, Marshall Strabala, Geaorge J. Efstathiou
http://dubaidhow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/khalifa.jpg
Andrea Q
The Nokia Theater
ELA Architecture and Urban design of Berkeley
Los Angeles California
Opened October 18, 2007
http://hollywoodhotel.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nokia-theatre.jpeg
Mia L.
Huxtable means: architecture is inescapable because it is a subtle influential element that we tend to only subconsciously take in, we don't realize that we are making impressions of every piece of architecture that we view because it constantly surrounds us.
Flatiron Building
Daniel Burnham, Frederick Dinkelberg
Manhattan, NY 1902
Flatiron Picture
John E.
Huxtable: The average person looks at dozens of architectural pieces every day taking their functions for granted.
Wells Fargo Center
Charles Luckman
Portland OR, 1972
Was the tallest building in all of Oregon when built. 546' (166 m)
http://d1osaz8037wly2.cloudfront.net/images/r/598x398%3E/s/os-legacy-images.s3.amazonaws.com/osoweb/portland/bldg/wellsfargocntr/building.jpg
Jeremy C.
rainier square
Minoru Yamasaki
Seattle in 1977
Impressive design upon first look, but blends in over time.
www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=rainier+square&find...
Jeremy C.
Huxtable: On an artistic level, we often neglect architecture, taking it for granted, because we so frequently use it for basic needs. We as consumers are responsible for remembering the artistic value of any building, concidering the architect is handcuffed by the purchasers desires.
Trinette Niccolls
Louvre Pyramid
I.M. Pei
Paris, France 1983-1989
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Paris_July_2011-27a.jpg/800px-Paris_July_2011-27a.jpg
Huxtable: Architecture is something that is something we cant escape. We live, learn, eat, and shop in buildings every day and multiple times a day. We judge buildings for their function but as well as the beauty on the outside. If it doesn't fit the area people will complain.
Omar M.
Huxtable: We are surrounded by a large amount of architecture, that sometimes we take it for granted and forget that architecture is all around us.
The White House
Architect: James Hoban
Located: Washington, D.C.
Construction Began: 1792
The White House
Anna F
Name: Federation Square/ SBS Television and Radio Headquarters
Architect: Lab architecture
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Year of completion: 2002
The effects of architecture are so evident in every aspect of our lives. Each building affects us in terms of its function, esthetics, and relation to other structures and the community as a whole. Unlike other arts there is nothing optional about our presence at the performance of this particular art. Even when we are not consciously aware of it, we are receiving impressions from our architectural environment.
Federation Square SBS TV and Radio HQ
David P.
Huxtable: I think she is saying that we are surrounded by amazing architecture and have become numb to it.
Telegram building
Rassmussen Grace company
Portland, OR 1922
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Jackie P.
We run into architecture everyday, and are influenced by it. Yet we just take it for granted.
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Eiffel Tower,
Stephen Sauvestre
Paris, France in 1889
I think that huxtable meant that we as a society have grown numb to the buildings that surround us. We see them for the purpose they serve and not for the art they represent. Architecture is meant to inspire all these different feelings in us and we don't stop to think about why it is they invoke those emotions
http://www.filmapia.com/published/places/central-china-television-headquarters-cctv-tower
Central China television headquarters
Architects: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren
Construction finished: 16 may 2012
Chun Guo
What Huxtable means is that architecture is such an important part of our life and it plays critical aesthetic and practical functions to individuals and society as crafts of architects. Yet architecture is often ignored or overlooked because the education system among other social institutions like the media informs little on such matters, while people tend to push architecture they encounter into the background noise of their life for they are surrounded by architecture.
The example I can think of is the highway transportation system (HTS) in the US, especially the on-and-off ramps of freeways (which come in various shapes), although linked are two pictures of freeway interchanges.
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Home
It is hard to tell where these are and who were the architects, simply because things like this are across the country, yet people rarely realize they can be art because people drive on them instead of see them in a larger scale.
I agree with most of the posts on here stating the fact that we walk and see building constantly all day everyday and how is it that we dont notice the uniquely created houses just down the street. I see unavoidable and think we don't want to avoid such creations but with such a dense set of manufactured homes and artless building how can we remember that the beauty in buildings is there we just nedd to pull it out from the industrialized mobil home nation that has been growing.
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2010/04/simple-efficient-harpoon-house-in-pdx.html
Zachary C.W.
KOIN Tower (aka The King Kong Building)
Architect: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca
Portland, Ore. 1984
I consider the KOIN Tower to be an example of unavoidable architecture. I pass it almost every day and it seems to draw my eye during my commute. It draws my attention because, unlike its big, boxy neighbors, the KOIN Tower makes a unique impression with its use of a sort of art deco style. In other words; I like it. It looks old-timey.
Jeff M.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Panorama_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_Building_at_Dusk.jpg
Nicholas B
The Supreme Court Building
Cass Gilbert
1935
Washington DC
I believe that Huxtable is trying to make the point regarding the very nature of architecture. All societies have some form of architecture, and these structures serve many different functions within those societies. But as I have come to learn, architecture is more than just function. The beauty of our buildings, or lack there of, become a permanent resident of the canvas that is our daily lives. Not taking into account all of the attributes of architecture effects the whole of that society. It truly is art that we can't afford to ignore.
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