VIDEO PRESHOW #8 - Ennis House, Los Angeles, CA FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

The Ennis House has been featured in many forms of popular culture since it's construction in 1924 including 3(!!!) music videos. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is the largest of the four textile block houses in the Los Angeles area. For some reason, this house inspires dark videos about break-ups and unrequited love.

VIDEO PRESHOW #7 - Loblolly House, Taylor's Island, MD, KIERAN TIMBERLAKE ARCHITECTS

https://vimeo.com/46306076

This project, the Loblolly House, is made of completely demountable components.

VIDEO PRESHOW #6 - Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

This is the video I showed on Monday. It features the Farnsworth House (1951) a house designed for Dr. Farnsworth as a weekend retreat from her busy Chicago practice. The architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was one of the twentieth century's most prominent architects.

VIDEO PRESHOW #5 - Videos featuring buildings from World Expos

There are very few buildings that remain from the World Fairs and Expos of the past. There are even fewer that are important to architects. This week's video preshows featured two such buildings.

On Monday we saw Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 in Leonard Cohen's video called "In My Secret Life."

You will recall that Moshe Safdie designed this building as a thesis project while he was still a student at McGill University in Montreal. To learn more about it check out these links:
Arch Daily Classics: Habitat '67
Great Buildings Online: Really good drawings, pix, and VIDEOS of the apartments
Dwell Magazine: A renovated flat

Another building remaining from the 1967 World Expo in Montreal is the United States Pavilion designed by Buckminster Fuller.

To learn more about "Bucky" Fuller and his career's work, start here.

We also saw two videos that contained the Eiffel Tower.  The Eiffel Tower was designed in 1889 for the the Paris World Fair by Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, two engineers who worked for the Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel. It continues to be the tallest structure in France

 ...and one of the most mythologized objects in the world.

Here's the video by Kendrick Lamar featuring the tower. (Thank you Jason Levin)

...and here's another slightly less explicit one by the Bloodhound Gang.

VIDEO PRESHOW #4 - Miason Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonnes, France - ALVAR AALTO

Here is the video I showed early on in class featuring the interiors and exteriors of the Maison Louis Carré (1956) by amazing Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

VIDEO PRESHOW #3 - Michigan Central Station, Packard Plant, Tiger's Stadium, Detroit

To see more images of Michigan Central Station and Tiger's Stadium in their heyday.

VIDEO PRESHOW #2 - Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, Los Angeles, MORPHOSIS ARCHITECTS

Here is the large public space of the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters building designed by Morphosis. Learn more about the projects here. The public art project (made with fluorescent light bulbs) was designed in collaboration with artist Keith Sonnier.

VIDEO PRESHOW #1 - Therme Vals, Graubünden, Switzerland

Liricas Analas "Siemis"
Janet Jackson, "Every Time"

Two videos that feature the Therme Vals, in Graubünden, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor. Read more about the project here.