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    Villa Savoye

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    Villa Savoye The Villa Savoye‚ a building designed by a Swiss architect named Le Corbusier‚ is located in the city of Poissy‚ France. The building was finished between the years 1929-1931. It is most known for a private weekend retreat about thirty miles outside of France. Le Corbusier believed that ornament had no place in the modern life world. The building structure is based of the International Style. Most forms of the International Style lack surface ornament and involve the use of modern

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    Villa Savoye

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    Torsten Lange 18th April 2012 How did the Villa Savoye influence a new epoch for architecture? Word count: Labelled as one of Le Corbusier’s defining buildings‚ the Villa Savoye has had a profound impact on the modernist movement through out the twentieth century which became commonly known as international style. Designed with the help of his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and built between nineteen twenty-eight and nineteen thirty-one‚ the villa savoye was constructed on the underlying themes proposed

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    Analysing Villa Savoye

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    will discuss Le Corbusier’s five principles and how they are applied to the Villa Savoye‚ how these reflect cubism and how space time relationships‚ three dimensional qualities and circulation is influenced and incorporated into the Villa Savoye. FIVE PRINCIPLES OF LE CORBESIER: Figure 2: The Villa Savoye façade showing pilotis (WASSMANN‚ C. 2009. Anarchitecture. Creative Commons Attributue.) Figure 2: The Villa Savoye façade showing pilotis (WASSMANN‚ C. 2009. Anarchitecture. Creative Commons

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    Upon cross-examination and comparison‚ Le Corbusier ’s Villa Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Guggenheim Museum have many similar attributes to them. Although Le Corbusier adamantly denied Frank Lloyd Wright ’s influence on his works‚ by examining the styles of the two architects‚ one can see similarities that cannot be justified by mere coincidence. However‚ since the Guggenheim was completed in 1959‚ after Villa Savoye‚ it could be also argued that Le Corbusier was the one who influenced Wright

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    Fallingwater by Wrights

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    shapes and Victorian styles. He thought that the architectural development must be set by the particular role for the building‚ its environment‚ and the type of accessories utilized in the structure. He brought the outside environment literally into Fallingwater. The four beams known as the cantilevered terraces expand the first floor out over the stream making the viewer think they are actually close enough to the waterfall and are able to hear and see up close and personal the environment surrounding

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    Fallingwater Critque

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    Fallingwater Critique Personal Reaction: I didn’t understand the building when I first saw it’s image pop up‚ but with further investigation‚ it grew on me. Maybe it is because I am not an outdoorsy kind of person But the way the building is designed‚ is unique and quit intriguing. This building has many square edges‚ it seems basic along the outside of the building. But it is when you look at the materials used‚ the rocks along the exterior walls and the red paned windows and reilings that

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    Photographs of Fallingwater‚ originally designed and built as a private home are‚ without question‚ breathtaking. Even so‚ photos do this work of art no justice. The only way one can truly appreciate Fallingwater is to see it for yourself. It is no exaggeration to say that design‚ structure and a genius artistic sense came together to create an architectural masterpiece. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright‚ Fallingwater is one of the most intriguing‚ inspired works of art in American architecture.

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    Fallingwater House executed by Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater is as one of Wright’s greatest masterpieces History The house belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Kaufmann a wealthy couple from Pittsburgh that owned a fashionable department store. The couple loved certain spot in the mountains named Bear Run where they often escaped on weekends to be in touch with nature. They used to camp there until they finally decided that it was time to built a proper home. They were attracted to Frank Lloyd Wright organic

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    Pancho Villa

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    By: Tony Pancho villa Doroteo Aranga learned to hate aristocratic Dons‚ who worked he and many other Mexicans like slaves‚ Doroteo Aranga also known as Pancho villa hated aristocratic because he made them work like animals all day long with little to eat. Even more so‚ he hated ignorance within the Mexican people that allowed such injustices. At the young age of fifteen‚ Aranga came home to find his mother trying to prevent the rape of his sister. Aranga shot the man and fled to the Sierra Madre

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    Pancho Villa

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    In the early morning of March 9‚ 1916‚ Pancho Villa crossed the U.S. border and into history. On that day‚ Villa launched the first attack on American soil since the War of 1812‚ killing 18 Americans and leaving the small New Mexican town of Columbus in flames. Among the dead was one-time Las Crucen Charles D. Miller‚ a 1906 graduate of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and brother of college registrar J.O. Miller. "When the unidentified body was removed from the ruins

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