TEXAS TECH HUCKABEE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
ARCH 1311 Design, Environment and Society
LECTURE 23 TECTONICS - MAGIC OF MATERIALS
Urs Peter "Upe" Flueckiger
November 08, & 13, 2023
Key Personnel
The
Shakers ca. 1780-1960
Gottfried Semper 1803-1879 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Semper
Renzo Piano 1937-
Mario Botta 1943-
Peter Zumthor 1943-
Rick Joy 1958-
D U S T Architects https://www.dustdb.com/
Herzog DeMeuron and Partners
Books/News
Media
Semper, Gottfried. Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts; or, Practical
Aesthetics.
Getty Research Institute; 1 edition 2004.
Key Word Places
Natural Disasters & Cities
Tornados, Hurricanes
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
Structural Engineer
Civil Engineer
Electrical Engineer
Mechanical Engineer
Tectonic for Architects is : The structural arrangement of materials in a
building
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Mario Botta, Chapel on Monte Tamaro
Mario Botta, Chapel in Mogno, Switzerland
Peter Zumthor, Bruder Klaus Chapel, Germany
Rick Joy, Desert Works, Tucson Arizona and area
D U S T Architects, Cade Hayes, Jesus Robles, Casa Caldera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7wZ_jGRJgU
D U S T Architects, Marfa Suite
Pleasant Ville Shaker Village, Kentucky
Infill Housing Project in Basel Switzerland, Herzog and DeMeuron
Ricola Storage Warehouse, near Basel, Switzerland.
Shaker Village, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky
Nasher Sculpture Garden, Dallas, Renzo Piano
Smart Materials:
"Smart Materials or designed materials are materials that have one or more
properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by external
stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH, electric or magnetic fields."
Dan Rockhill, Architecture Research Building University of Kansas.
Links:
FEMA: https://www.fema.gov/
NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/design/renzo-pianos-nasher-museum-in-dallas-has-sunburn-problem.html