This is a video about 7 facts in architecture. They are as follows; Kallmann, McKinnell, and Knowles designed Boston City Hall in the brutalist aesthetic in 1968. It was, and is, considered unsightly by some, while many architects think of it as a masterpiece of the style; The Tribune Tower in Chicago is designed in the Gothic Revival style. The current building was the result of an international competition held by the Chicago Tribune in 1922. John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood designed the winning entry; Eero Saarinen designed the General Motors Technical Center, which opened in 1956. The vast complex is unique because of its minimal yet colorful simplicity. The strict rhythm of the delicate steel and glass facades is also striking; As a general rule, buildings have straight lines, square rooms, and parts that fit well together. Coop Himmelblau’s architecture does not; rather, their law firm meeting room in Vienna looks like a building made from energy or spare parts dumped from a box in the sky; Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Rosenbaum house in Florence, Alabama. The house is an example of an idealized home type Wright famously referred to as Usonian. These single-story dwellings feature large windows and cantilevered flat roofs; Edmund G. Lind designed the George Peabody Library in Baltimore, Maryland. It was completed in 1878. The building is Neoclassical in style. The interior colonnades and balconies are cast iron with gold leaf detail; Log cabins have been around for thousands of years. They’re made from straight-hewed logs, notched at the ends and locked together. The gaps are filled with material called chinking, which can be moss, stones, sticks, mud, caulk, or mortar.
This is a video series about facts in architecture. The 15 second videos featured in the series are created by Doug and posted every day on his Instagram account @dougpatt.
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