Principles Of architecture Semester II
Introduction About Glass House | Ar. Philip Johnson |
Brief Explanation About tangible and Intangible architecture
Comparison of tangible and Intangible architecture
With Examples
2. JOHNSON’S
GLASS
HOUSE
Philip Johnson’s Glass House, built atop a dramatic hill on a
rolling 47-acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, is a piece of
architecture famous the world over not for what it includes, but
for what it leaves out. The dwelling’s transparency and ruthless
economy are meant to challenge nearly every conventional
definition of domesticity.
The residence Johnson built for himself in 1949 suggests a life
pared down to Platonic essentials—and triumphantly ready for
fishbowl scrutiny. There is something intimidating to people
about the restraint such an existence would demand, as if the
house itself were silently judging our own messy choices. Still,
the appeal of all that self-control, that rigor, is practically
narcotic. Why not banish every bit of clutter? For many of us,
Johnson’s masterwork is a powerful fantasy.
3. Completed in 1949, the Glass House
was the first design Johnson built on
the property. The one-story house has
a 32'x56' open floor plan enclosed in
18-feet-wide floor-to-ceiling sheets of
glass between black steel piers and
stock H-beams that anchored the glass
in place. The structure, however, did
not impress Mies when he visited the
house. It is said that the brilliant
mentor to Philip Johnson stormed out
in fury because of what he interpreted
as a lack of thought in the details of the
house.
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4. PHILIP
JOHNSON
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an
American architect best known for his works
of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best known
designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut,
and postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York, designed for
AT&T, and 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago.
Johnson majored in philosophy at Harvard University, graduating in
1930. In 1932 he was named director of the Department of
Architecture of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
With Henry-Russell Hitchcock he wrote The International Style:
Architecture Since 1922 (1932), which provided a description of (and
also a label for) post-World War I modern architecture.
Johnson, who continued to design into the early 21st century,
received a number of awards, including the American Institute of
Architects Gold Medal (1978) and the first Pritzker Architecture
Prize (1979).
5. TANGIBLE
AND
INTANGIBLE
ARCHITECTURE
• Tangible is that which
can be touched.
• Only physical things
can be touched.
• So all physical things
are tangible.
• As tangibility relates
to physicality, it is
measurable.
• Tangibility therefore
deals with the
physical world.
• Intangible is that which
can be only experienced..
• Normally it is the
qualitative aspect that
can not be touched but is
experienced such as
beauty, goodness,
delight, joy, happiness
and the like.
• Intangible aspects are
abstract and therefore not
measurable. Beauty and
goodness can not be
weighed or measured.
INTANGIBLE
TANGIBLE
6. THE BUILDING IS AN ESSAY IN
MINIMAL STRUCTURE,
GEOMETRY, PROPORTION,
AND THE EFFECTS OF
TRANSPARENCY AND
REFLECTION.
IT WAS A BUILDING REALLY
EXPRESSING MANY CONCERNS OF
CLASSIC DESIGN, FROM THE
ELEVATED PLACEMENT OF AN OBJECT
IN A SPACE, TO ITS SERENE
PROPORTION, GENERAL OVERALL
SYMMETRY, AND COMBINING OF A
BALANCE OF ELEMENTS
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7. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the
smallest one in the Solar System—it’s only a bit
larger than our Moon. The planet’s name has
nothing to do with the liquid metal, since it was
named after the Roman messenger god, Mercury
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THE FLOOR DETAILING OF THE
HOUSE IS QUITE APPEALING AS
IT CREATE SENSE OF RHYTHM
AND SYMMETRY.
THE FLOOR IS ALSO MADE
OF RED BRICK LAID OUT IN A
HERRINGBONE PATTERN
AND IS RAISED TEN INCHES
OFF OF GROUND LEVEL
8. THE SCULPTURE CREATES
EMPHASIS TO THE ENTIRE
SURROUNDING AS IT OF A
CONTRASTING COLOR AND
SHAPE.
THE STATUE IN THE LIVING
AREA IS A MASTER PIECE
THAT IS MADE UP OF
PAPIER MACHE ON
PLASTER ARMATURE WITH
INTERNAL BAMBOO BRACES
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9. THE GLASS HOUSE IS FAR AWAY
FROM THE GUSTY WAVES
HANCE IT CREATES A SENSE OF
RELAXATION AND PEACE.
THE ONLY OTHER DIVISIONS IN
THE HOUSE BESIDES THE
BATHROOM ARE DISCREETLY
DONE WITH LOW CABINETS AND
BOOKSHELVES, MAKING THE
HOUSE A SINGLE OPEN ROOM.
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