Twentieth-Century Architecture . Prentice-Hall & Abrams, 2002. Le Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture . 1927. Robert Venturi. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.. 1966. Tom Wolfe. From Bauhaus to Our House, 1981. Course Description: Every historical period thinks of itself as modern, but in the 20th century”modern” architecture …

Art 288 Modern Architecture Describing and analyzing architecture Architecture is the most complex of the arts. It takes careful analysis to understand just how a building, a townscape, a total built environment or constructed landscape works. Architectural imagery consists of a combination of structure, design, materials, meaning, and use. Here are some guidelines to writing and thinking about architecture. Exterior •Approach (arbitrary or contrived, obscure or open, monumental or informal) •Contrast or relationship to surrounding area in terms of scale, design, style •Non-physical elements that affect one’s perceptions of the architecture: familiarity, power, ceremonial use, social or historical role, function •Symmetrical or asymmetrical, horizontal or vertical •Scale and proportion (relative to humans, monumental or intimate, compatible or harmonious) •Texture and materials (durable like stone, ephemeral like canvas; slick like titanium, rough like granite) •Pattern and rhythm (how do placement of doors, windows, balconies, etc. work) •Color (monochrome, polychrome) •Evidence of alteration, denaturation, additions, modifications Interior–•If you can get inside, consider space, smell, sound 20th Century Winston-Salem Architecture Visit and analyze at least 5 of these buildings. Reynolda House, Reynolda Road, 1917 (Charles Barton Keen) Stevens Center, former Carolina Theatre, West Fourth Street, 1920s/1985 renovation RJR Headquarters, N. Main Street, 1928 (Shreve & Lamb) Shell Auto Service Station (headquarters, NC Preservation), Sprague & Peachtree, 1930 Graylyn, Reynolda Road, 1932 (Luther Lashmit) Reynolda Hall, WFU, 1950-56 (Jens F. Larson) Thruway Shopping Center, Stratford Road, 1950s, 1990s renovation WSJS, 875 West Fifth Street, 1961 Wachovia Building, 301 N. Main Street, 1966 M.C. Benton Convention and Civic Center, 301 West Fifth Street, 1968 Crystal Towers, 625 West Sixth Street, 1972 Hall of Justice Building of Forsyth County, 200 Main Street, 1975 SECCA (Hanes House, modern gallery, + addition, 1932, 1976, 1984 (Michael Newman) RJR World Headquarters (now WFU), Reynolda Blvd. 1977 (Odell) Hanes Mall, Stratford Road, 1978 Scales Fine Arts Center, WFU, 1975, 1983 (Caudill, Rowlett, Scott, CRS) One Triad Park, West 2nd Street, 1984 Worrell Professional Building, WFU, 1991 (Cesar Pelli) New Wachovia Building, West 2nd Street, 1996 (Cesar Pelli, try to get inside!) Filmmaking Village, NC School of the Arts, 1996 (Backen, Arrigoni, Ross, BAR) Old Salem Visitor Center, 2002 (Venturi, Scorr-Brown & Associates) Fast Food Restaurant (Burger King & McDonalds)

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