10 Buildings That Changed American Architecture (2013)
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- This film tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society.
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1: Virginia State Capitol - Thomas Jefferson and Charles-Louis Clérisseau (Greco-Roman, Palladian)
2: Trinity Church - Henry Hobson Richardson (Richardsonian Romanesque)
3: Wainwright Building - Adler & Sullivan (Chicago School)
4: Robie House - Frank Lloyd Wright (Prairie Style)
5: Highland Park Ford Plant - Albert Kahn, Edward Gray
6: Southdale Center - Victor Gruen Associates
7: Seagram Building - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson
8: Dulles International Airport - Eero Saarinen
9: Vanna Venturi House - Robert Venturi
10: Walt Disney Concert Hall - Frank Gehry
From American architectural stalwarts like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, to modern revolutionaries Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi, this film examines prominent buildings designed by pioneering architects of our time, whose legacy is visible in our environmental and cultural landscape.
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I walked past the Robie Housefor two years as a student at the U of C. It reminded me of a luxury transatlantic steamship.
what's the need for a transatlantic steamship in a city, I wonder!
Great film, deserves a far wider audience - keep up the good work!
"Manufacturing Intellect" your channel is amazing! In the past couple days I've seen architecture themed vids, Hitchens, Toni Morrison, even old Toynbee! Maybe my favorite youtube channel of all time.
32:06 fun fact about the Seagram Building: Notice this intentional detail: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe paid special attention to the lighting and the ceiling because he knew and wanted it to be visible from the street. So blinds were not part of the design. The workers were so bothered by the sunlight that they stuck newspapers to the windows for some shade. But this ruined such an important part of the design! So the cleaning service, at the end of the day would tear it all down. For this the workers came to refer to the cleaning service as ‘Mies’s Gestapo.’
I think that was initially true ... for a short period of time ... but was quickly addressed with van der Rohe’s agreement to installing blinds - but with only three possible positions: fully up, fully down, or halfway.
Thank you for this video!
Excellent. Thanks to you all.
Great show very insightful
Robi house is an building Science disaster. The window wall is not suited for Chicago's winter and the house was/is an ice box in Winter. The roof angle is so shallow that there is little barrier from the Summer Sun and the house was an oven in Summer, opening all those windows did not offer enough cooling and invited in mosquitoes. The Robis lived in the house for a mere 14 months (left due to a divorce) but the house was never lived in for more than a year and turned into a pseudo-cottage for Spring and Fall months, then abandoned and almost demolished. Today it serves as a museum.
28:10 is Cross County Shopping Center In Yonkers. An early mall...and an unenclosed mall at that! Developed by Sol Atlas, Cross County Shopping Center opened in 1954 as the first mall in Westchester County.
I am an american house carpenter I am insulted you did not cover 2x4 balloon framing ,the great wooden victorian houses of the late 1800's
Virginia State Capital: America’s first screwed up Architect / Owner / Contractor relationship.
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This should be a PBS show. Totally informative and entertaining.
Thanks.
I like revolutionary modern Architects but I do appreciate Edwardian Queen Anne Victorian buildings and tuckpointing red brick Australia we have a wide range of different buildings but it's great to have a new style for your area than named after previous rulers
this is an azing channel.it has the documentaries and interviews of writers,poets and artists that I love and look upto.
Thank God, I was looking for recitation audio of Eliot's Wasteland, the search of which resulted into showing a whole documentary abt the Epic Poem, a milestone of modern poetry. And, I hve to mention the invious, this channel has that documentary.
Wright's Robbie House was not built on the edge of the University of Chicago campus. It was the only building on a barren unpaved rural road until the suburban sprawl of Chicago eventually reached it. U of C re-located to the area because of the availability of cheap real estate, acquiring the Robbie House along the way. It became the department of Theology. Studying there must have been a religious experience.
I walked past it for two years while a student there.
Robie was built in 1903, the university came in 1892. It was mostly prairie but the university by that time was just a quarter mile away. And the Hyde park township was pretty established
¨he threw his 3 minute sketch to his trainee Frank Loyd Wright¨
Not the first time architectural merit is in credit to the wrong person
Nice
and then you see Gehry's Library in downtown Denver, he pooped one of his boxes onto a perfectly beautiful streamline deco building already on the site. instead of following the suggestion of the existing library, we got a Gehry Box. not to be confused with the post 9/11 Big Broken Building by Libeskind it still has leaks.
The Denver Public Library is by Michael Graves, not Frank Gehry.
doppelgänger alert - at 7:44 - James F. O'Gorman - Greg Popovich long lost brother, haha
Footnote: Frank Gehry’s hometown is Toronto 🇨🇦
Your first segment on Jefferson falls short! How do you not mention Andrea Palladio?!?! It was his designs that inspired not only Jefferson, but the entire new republic. In fact, I do believe, Palladio is considered to be the inspiration of all of Washington, DC architecture and monuments.
True! I spent quite a bit of time in Vicenza looking at those old Palladios hehe
Todd Elliott Stop being such snobbish know-it-alls. The poor guy made an interesting and colorful sketch of American architecture, not an AIA seminar.
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Todd Elliott I was talking about manners.
@@michaeljudge5089 He simply stated his constructive criticism in a straightforward manner. Perhaps it even inspired someone to seek more info on Palladio. There was nothing rude or ill-mannered about it. You're actually the one who resorted to ad hominem attacks.
I see that Venturi house (9) almost every day. Always thought it was Fugly as hell, but the inside looks interesting. The Facade is gross though. I wondered why it was "acclaimed". I guess it had a positive impact at least.
It's astounding how all these brilliant minds with ambitious concepts can produce such banal and ugly works.
We liked the malls of the late 50s and early 60s. They were more open, more like Victor Gruen intended, town squares. We would walk diagonally across open space to the store we wanted to go to. There were open public areas and as kids we'd hang out there. By the 1970s Malls didn't want kids loitering around, and they began to control how you walked. I used to hate walking through the new mall at the south end of Ann Arbor, Michigan, it controlled how you walked. I just felt creepy. Also there were two malls in the city I grew up in, one older and outdoors the other indoors. There were completely different stores, so you'd choose one or the other depending on what mom wanted to shop for that day. After my experience with the controlling design I avoided malls. During this time they all began to become carbon copies of each other. The only unique businesses and features were the small kiosk stands, sun glasses, phone cases, etc. Melrose Avenue in the early 1980s was a shabby ghost town, the Industrial Revolution (everything black or red) and Wacko/the Soap Plant opened up. Suddenly Melrose started to wake up, but soon the cookie cutter corporate stores moved in, Industrial Revolution and Wacko got priced out (they were very successful small businesses, but somehow the landlords always knew how much money you made and wanted it all). Melrose became just another strip of corporate stores and a few boutiques.
I appreciate this video because I never knew about Gruen. His vision was good. It was greed that killed the mall. How many of them are shutting down? Do we really need another Gap, Old Navy, etc... selling the same stuff? When I go to the Apple Store that I like. It's in a mall. I park at the perimeter, quickly walk in and eyes front head for the escalator and the Apple Store. The experience of a modern mall is so fake and dismal, I'd rather walk through an alley.
7:23 minneapolis city hall!!!!!
当看到文丘里的楼梯时候，我觉得他有趣的可怕
Goes to show one can design a terrible house (Robbie or Venturi) or factory (Ford/Khan) and still be wildly influential.
imho Architecture is personal, it's art we live in. I happen to like the querky Venturi house, and I also often go to art exhibits featuring modern non-representative art. I'm not particularly a fan, but sometimes I'm surprised. It's the surprise and inspiration I go for. Same here, most of these were designed in an era we can in no way relate to. When Disney hall went up it was a phenomenon that impressed the world with its unique form, and inspired some other great work. I think it's hard to rate a work of art on some scale, but originality is the theme that gets our attention. We build on that don't we? Many F.L. Wright houses feel like dungeons inside, there is so little light. For some that would rate as terrible, and yet they are amazing as pieces of art.
Stephen,
The Robie house is "dungeon"
like..............?
It's the antithesis of a dungeon, full of light and open unconfined spaces.
Interesting................
Do we know the same house?
How about the fact that Bldg 10 & Highland Park are LITERALLY genesis for modern architecture.
Tbh, cant help but laugh at Greun
I like the part about Victor Gruen, and that you included Phyllis Lambert in the history of the Seagram Building.
Women are often invisible in architecture and it's good to take steps to change this.
I see Natalie de Blois was one of the lead architects of Lever House which received brief mention in this video, a building which looks much nicer IMO.
I toured all of the homes and buildings in the River Forest and Oak Park suburbs in Chicago designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. This is a great video but only got a few comments and likes. Proof everyone's heads are in the gutter. If this was a video on the Kardashians it will get 1000s of comments.
I too have done the Oak Park thing etc.
It's one of my favorite areas in Chicago and around.
Check out University Heights abutting the UW-MADISON football stadium.
You'll be amazed!
Oak park great place to sample Wright evolution of style
"He liked the clean lines...they were much easier to carve..."😂talk about gross understatements.(re:Jefferson)
Where is Frank gehry from? Where is his hometown?
Frank Gehry was born in Toronto Ontario, Canada.
24:50 "Enormity" does not mean what you think it does......
I hate copycat artists... like the original artist created the piece for a specific and special reason / client / environment / culture etc. So when it’s copied outside of what it was intended to express, it just doesn’t work and fails... But originality and using your own brain is too hard I guess...
Virginia State Capitol is inspired by Parthenon
Me I always liked old architecture. I did learn a lot but I'm not into funny shaped buildings or futuristic buildings since I don't get it.
Those were NOT obsessively detailed drawings!
Gehry is the worst ... Libeskind, Hadid, and Richard Rogers are/were good competition, but Gehry is more influential, so he "wins". Was surprised Frank and the interviewer didn't burst into flames while looking at the building from the sidewalk with those shiny curves focusing the sun's rays on them ...
Please please please resist adding music to your otherwise great video. It doesn't need music and its a struggle to LISTEN to the interviewees. I can hear them, but I want to LISTEN to them, and the music interferes and basically reduces this video to 'noise'.
Frank Gehry is not American he's Canadian.
Greek revival happened all over Europe due to archaeological rediscovery of Greece, preceding American independence. I don't think it can be explained by the resentment of British style.. and it's not an American invention either..
@Kevin L watching from about 3:20.. "he didn't find his architectural inspiration in the court of the king louis XVI, Indead jefferyson looked back to the great classical buildings or Rome, which he knew so well from architecture books" and it goes on "Thomas Jefferson decided to do something unheard of..." He might be the first who brought Neoclassicism to America, but the video makes it sounds as he invented it..
Lots of distracting music competing with spoken commentary....
Including Robert Venturi's mother's house without noting how dogmatic, technically deficient, dishonest, unpleasant, and short lived the post -modern movement it inspired was, discredits an otherwise interesting video.
Robert Venturi's buildings are ugly, joyless contrivances. The architects whose work he so despises were also iconoclasts in their time, however they also had an appreciation and a love for materials, volume and spatial relationships which led them to create beautiful buildings. Venturi's only motive it seems is to simply destroy what came before - he's a tasteless vandal, not an architect to be admired.
And as for Gehry - his outrageous buildings are just brash, self-indulgent and self-aggrandising monuments to extravagance and bad taste.
Nonetheless this was an enjoyable documentary.
You are missing a great house... FALLING WATER!!! Shame on you!!! The are millions of houses around the world inspired by Falling Water!!!
Thomas Jefferson had slaves living in Montecello...
Nice
And your point is?
I'm assuming he was the ONLY one at the time..........
Read "Monticello"... after freeing all his slaves, his wife's father died, they inherited all his slaves, out of dedication to being treated well, that refused to leave... thus TJ continued the tradition... sheep people think than working men do not like to work (as they do not like their own jobs)... wake up america...
Well done!!! Now, if we could get Americans to pay attention!
I wish I was American :(
The world is filled with magnificent architecture. Every part of the world has architectural stories like these.
You must be russian...
@@nickdannunzio7683 Canadian... its like the US if the US was run by commies and no one was ever able to get ahead
@@mochopz until you see hospitalization bill or have a run-in with the law enforcement as poc, you'd wish you were Canadian
@@miu3239 I am Canadian, its a shithole.
Is anybody else here disgusted by nearly every building discussed here, except for the first two?
These are one man's opinion. I do not agree.
As is your's.
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Robert Venturi is a joke, only poseurs like Venturi, Charles Jenks, and Peter Eisenman would take shots at the great Walter Gropius like these guys did. Do they still sell those Venturi garden sheds at Walmart? Soon after Bonnie Venturi moved in, she died ...
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Number 6 was trash. And it won’t last
Mies van der Rohe and Serenins Airport, some Gehry. Everything else of these will disappear.
that venturi's house was designed to be a mistake, looks like a mistake and is a mistake
Modern Architecture sucks
frank gehry holds no repset. His designs are trash. When assessing his buildings they are empty voids, can't posses a purpose and are litterally nothing but expensive enclosures for nothing. They may attract attention but Possess nothing. Trash on the sidewalk that attracts attention because what is it, Just trash.
Their affect on you seems strong bordering on obsessive. Maybe you should reexamine.
Socializing is wonderful. Socialism is not. Choice matters. Good architecture promotes the first, naturally, rendering irrelevant the second.
enjoy the downfall of your country
Nero and Caligula were quite fond of socializing, i.e. type of socializing matters.
Gay Roman's
@Kevin L Agreed, but neither today's Right nor Left enjoy a monopoly on this malady. And lately their black and white takes on every social interaction and institution are looking like two sides of the same coin. Different sets of goodguys and badguys, same defiantly unsubtle approach to understanding.