#Institute of Architecture

[lsbubastudio2]

“Chiswick Architectural Institute”, Chiswick House & Gardens, London _ Student: Reshawn Harding / BA3   _ 06.05.2023

Two Georgian trendsetters, the architect and designer William Kent and his friend and patron Richard Boyle, the third Earl of Burlington, created the House and Gardens between 1725 and about 1738. Influenced by their travels on the Grand Tour, they rejected the showy, Baroque style fashionable in England, in favour of a simpler, symmetrical design based on the classical architecture of Italy. Together they broke down the rigid formality of the early 18th-century garden to create a revolutionary, natural-looking landscape. The main design approach of the new Institute of Architecture addresses a variety of issues, from the programmatic to the civic. The main challenge of the new structure has to do with the spatial limitations and potentials of the existing listed building, context and site.

Module 302 _ “Urban Arboretum: Treehouse (or The House of Trees)” _ BAS2 _ 2023-2024.

[madlori]

A few days ago, my BFF and I took a quick overnight trip to Detroit. She wanted to go to their art museum, it's a 3.5 hour drive, so we decided to make an overnight of it.

The Detroit Institute of Art has a truly historic permanent installation, namely a courtyard completely covered with murals by Diego Rivera, and they are stunning in that "stand there and get teary over human creativity" kind of way.

Anyway that isn't the point of this post.

We went to a jazz club that night, and the next morning we went for brunch. We had like an hour's wait, so we walked a few blocks away in downtown Detroit to the Guardian Building, which I'd been told was worth seeing. It's just an office building, open whenever, you can just walk in and look around, but it looks like THIS:

It's an absolutely stunning Art Deco building that's currently owned by Wayne County and houses most of their offices, along with other tenants.

There is a ton of Deco architecture in Detroit, as most of the big expansion of the city during the automobile boom was in the 20s and 30s. Downtown Detroit is back to being a bustling social hub and the city's recovered a lot from its crises.

I recommend a visit.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Bedchamber of the Jacobean or Stuart Era, 1603-1688

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1187)

[hancockinstitute]

IT'S LIKE JAZZ – YOU IMPROVISE YOU WORK TOGETHER, YOU PLAY OFF EACH OTHER, YOU MAKE SOMETHING, THEY MAKE SOMETHING.

– Frank Gehry, Architect & Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Trustee

[mim70]

Residential building on the Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences

Koltusi (Keltto), near Vsevolozhsk, Saint Petersburg region

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

The Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Architect: Frank Gehry

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 5/17/08

[bhrarchinerd]

Order by Rob Oo Via Flickr: Ohgigaoka Campus, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Noinochi, Japan. Design (1967): Sachio Otani.

[artandthebible]

Christ Receiving the Children

Artist: Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616–1671)

Date: 1650–1660

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

In this illustration of an episode from the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament, Jesus (reclining at center) admonishes his disciples not to prevent little children from approaching him. Sébastien Bourdon's figures wear draperies in the antique fashion, and the setting evokes both ancient Rome and the Christian Holy Land.

One of the most versatile and successful 17th-century French painters, Bourdon emulated the rigorous classical style of Nicolas Poussin. Bourdon knew Poussin's work (such as the painting on view in this gallery) from his early years in Rome. Following Poussin's compositional principles, Bourdon organized this scene as a series of parallel, stage-like registers, resulting in a calm, geometric order.

[dziubomir]

[lsbubastudio2]

“Chiswick Architectural Institute”, Chiswick House & Gardens, London _ Student: Carmen Calugar / BA3 _ 06.05.2023

Two Georgian trendsetters, the architect and designer William Kent and his friend and patron Richard Boyle, the third Earl of Burlington, created the House and Gardens between 1725 and about 1738. Influenced by their travels on the Grand Tour, they rejected the showy, Baroque style fashionable in England, in favour of a simpler, symmetrical design based on the classical architecture of Italy. Together they broke down the rigid formality of the early 18th-century garden to create a revolutionary, natural-looking landscape. The main design approach of the new Institute of Architecture addresses a variety of issues, from the programmatic to the civic. The main challenge of the new structure has to do with the spatial limitations and potentials of the existing listed building, context and site.

Module 302 _ “Urban Arboretum: Treehouse (or The House of Trees)” _ BAS2 _ 2023-2024.

[julianhuxley]

Two penguins “inspect” an architectural maquette of the new Penguin Pond, London Zoo.

Photograph by John Havinden, 1934 (RIBA)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1186)

[science70]

Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development, Kiev, Ukraine, 1971.

Architects: Lev Novikov, Florian Turiev

Photography: Johansen Krause

[lindenardenshighlights]

"Paris is always a good idea." ~ Audrey Hepburn

Palais de l’Institut de France

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Detail, Stata Center

Massachusetts Institute of Technology; architect: Frank Gehry

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 4/1/15

[galleryofart]

Westminster Abbey from Tothill Fields

Artist: John Varley (English, 1778–1842)

Date: 1832

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States