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Villa Stein and Spatial Composition

The document provides an overview of the week 7 lecture for a 21st century architecture course. It discusses key concepts around spatial composition and the use of voids, transparency, and ambiguity to shape space. Significant theorists and projects exploring these ideas are highlighted, including works by Le Corbusier, Loos, Mies van der Rohe, OMA, Diller + Scofidio + Renfro, and others. Background texts by Rowe and Slutsky on literal and phenomenal transparency are also noted.

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Villa Stein and Spatial Composition

The document provides an overview of the week 7 lecture for a 21st century architecture course. It discusses key concepts around spatial composition and the use of voids, transparency, and ambiguity to shape space. Significant theorists and projects exploring these ideas are highlighted, including works by Le Corbusier, Loos, Mies van der Rohe, OMA, Diller + Scofidio + Renfro, and others. Background texts by Rowe and Slutsky on literal and phenomenal transparency are also noted.

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Week 7: Spatial Composition, Transparency and Voids

ABPL 90117 21st Century Architecture


Dr AnnMarie Brennan

Lecture notes

Question:
What is space? How can spatial composition drive a design?

Significant terms:

Free plan, Maison Domino, and ‘sectional continuity’ – Le Corbusier


Raumplan – ‘space plan’ - Adolf Loos
Universal Space – Mies van der Rohe
Strategies of the void, and ‘generic space’– OMA
Pliable surface – OMA
Contiguous discontinuity - OMA (i.e. Downtown athletic club section)
Phenomenal transparency
Visual ambiguity
Literal transparency

Significant Background texts:

Colin Rowe and Robert Slutsky, “Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal,” Perspecta
8, 1963.
Rem Koolhaas, “Definitive Instability: The Downtown Athletic Club,” Delirious New
York, 1978.

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Projects:

Walter Gropius, Fagus Factory, Alfeld, Germany, c1910


Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 1926
Le Corbusier, Villa Stein, Garches, Paris, France, 1926-1928.
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoy, Poissy, France, 1928-1931
Le Corbusier, Palais des Congres-Strasborg, 1964
Adolf Loos, Villa Müller, Prague, Czech Republic, 1930
Adolf Loos, Villa Moissi, Vienna, Austria, 1923
Le Corbusier, Unite d’Habitation, Marseilles, France, 1952
OMA, Villa dall’Ava, Paris, France, 1991
OMA, Mission Grand Axe Competition entry, La Defense, Paris France, 1991
OMA, Tres Grande Bibliotheque Competition entry, Paris, France, 1989.
OMA, KZM Centre for Art and Media Technology competition entry, Karlsruhe,
Germany, 1989

OMA, Agadir Convention Centre projectMorocco, 1990


OMA, Educatorium, University campus, Utrecht, 1993-97
OMA, Jussieu Libraries project, competition entry, Paris, 1992
OMA, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1992
OMA, Dutch Embassy, Berlin, 2003
OMA, Milstein Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2006-2011
OMA, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, 2006-2013
OMA, Qatar National Library, Doha, 2017
Diller + Scofidio + Renfro, Eyebeam Museum of New Media Project, NYC, 2004
Diller + Scofidio + Renfro, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, 2006
Diller + Scofidio + Renfro, Granoff Centre for the Creative Arts, Providence, R.I., 2011
Diller + Scofio + Renfro. Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, Columbia
University Medical Center, New York, 2016
Ma Yansong and Yosuke Hayano, Fish Tank, 2004
MAD Architects, Al Rostamini Office Headquarters, UAE, 2009
BIG Architects, Technology Centre TEK, Taipai, Taiwan, 2011
Morphosis Architects, 41 Cooper Square (for the Cooper Union for the Advancement
of Science and Art), New York City, 2009
3XN, GXN, BVD architects, Aspect Studios, Sydney Fish Market project, (to be
completed 2023)

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