Dutton Hall, 1998-9, Fisher Friedman Associates

Pluralistic

Samples traditional style and makes jokes about history/tradition

Contemporary take on traditional style

Welcoming, domestic, contextual

Mondavi Center, 1998, BOORA Architects

Pluralistic

Contemporary, modernist (see Bauhaus)

"Unheroic" architecture

Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, 1922

Howard Building, Downing College, Cambridge, 1989, Quinlan Terry

Parthenon, 118-432 BCE, Iktinos & Kallikrates

Villa Capra, near Vicenza Italy, begun c. 1556-7, Andrea Palladio

Ideal of civilization, destiny, history

Symmetrical, regular shapes/spacing

Radiant City, 1922, Le Corbusier

Brasilia, Brazil, 1950s

Progress in technology will solve all problems

Cut down the old, start anew

Pruitt-Igoe scheme, St. Louis, Missouri, 1950-54, Minoru Yamasaki

End of Modernism

Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 1926, Walter Gropius

Most famous Modernist building

Lacks roof, floating glass windows, smooth uni-colored walls

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The triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof.

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When raking cornice is left open at the apex.

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A continuous narrow horizontal course or moulding which projects slightly from the surface of a wall.

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A section of arch that equals the arc of a circle less than a half circle.