UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION AND GEODESY – FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE

••HISTORY OF THE HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS••

•THE VERTICAL CITY – THE SKYSCRAPERS’ IMPACT ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT •

An elective course (open to the public) by Dimitar Andreychin, Architect, Associate Professor at the UACG,

2009/2010 Spring Term – on Wednesdays, 6:15–8:00 PM, Hall # 230, UACG – the New Wing (2d Floor, at Block 1).

17.02. LOOKING FOR THE DESAPPEARED RATIONALISM (a historical survey)

Wed. Visions from the Past: The high wonders of the Ancient world – pyramids, obelisks andtowers.

The verticality in the city environment – dreams and real opportunities.

24.02.THE DISTANT ROOTES OF SKYSCRAPERS

Wed.The cathedralsracing for the Heights. The innovations at the 19th Century World Exhibitions.

The EiffelTower and the WashingtonMonument in Washington, DC – are they skyscrapers?

10.03.THE CHICAGOSCHOOL (“FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION” – Louis Sullivan)

Wed.The HomeInsuranceBuilding by William LeBaron Jenney – a pigmy or a colossus?

The great rivals in Chicago: Adler & Sullivan v/s Burnham & Root. Was The ChicagoSchool a School?

The role of the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago (1893) for the deferment of Rationalism.

17.03.FROM THE "BEAUX ARTS" STYLE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

Wed.From Chicago to Manhattan – the new New York world records in height of the early 20th century.

The New York Zoning Law (1916) and its further impact on the city skyline.

24.03. THE "ART DECÒ" STYLE IN NEW YORK CITY (“FORM FOLLOWS THE NORM” – D.A.)

The ‘Chicago Daily Tribune’ Competition in 1922: the Rationalism was deferred again.

The "JazzEra"– the rush of world records to New York in the early 1930s.

31.03. THE BREAK-THROUGH OF RATIONALISM – THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE

Wed.The International Style and its American ‘reading’. The "Bauhaus" immigrants’ invasion:

Gropius and Mies van der Rohe heading most important USArchitectural Schools.

07.04. TOWARDS THE GLASS BOX AND BEYOND (“LESS IS MORE” – Mies van der Rohe)

Wed.How the glass boxes and the blocks of flats have changed the world by standardizing it.

The American genius Wright – almost alone as a National opposition to the International Style.

The ‘Revolt’ in Mies van der Rohe’s Citadel: "MarinaCity" in Chicago by arch. Bertrand Goldberg.

14.04. THE SKYSCRAPERS OUT OF THE USA

Wed.The high-rise buildingsinMoscow or the"Socialist Realism"as a Skyscraper Style.

New skylines in Germany, Brazil, Japan, France,etc. The Sunset of the International Style.

21.04.IN SEARCH FOR A NEW HIGH-RISE STRUCTURAL CONCEPT – "THE BEARING TUBE"

Wed. The World records of the WorldTradeCenter"TwinTowers"in New Yorkby M. Yamasaki (1972, 1973)

The "JohnHancockCenter"(1969) and the new World record holder – the SearsTowerin Chicago(1974).

28.04."SOCIAL" OR "SOCIABLE" SKYSCRAPERS?

Wed.The smooth environment of the glass skyscrapers – arrogance or benevolence?

"The City Oases" – the atriums as a part of the street. Arch. John Portman’s Hotels.

05.05."THE LANGUAGE OF POST-MODERN ARCHITECTURE" (a book by Prof. Charles Jencks,1975)

Wed.The Post-modernists: Ph. Johnson, H. Jahn, M. Graves, W. Pederson, K. Roche, C. Pelli,R. Stern, etc.

The consecutive return to the Gothic in Architecture. “Form Follows … Form” (Ph. Johnson)

12.05.THE HIGH PROVOCATIONS OF THE PUBLIC OPINION

Wed. The fate of the "Unwelcomes": examples from New York, San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, and other cities.

How "Deconstructivism" was "constructed" as a high-rise concept?

19.05. SKYSCRAPERS IN THE LANDS OF DRAGONS

Wed.The British ‘High-Tech’ Style invasion. The "Bank of Hong Kong" by Sir Norman Foster (1985).

The Asian records in height: "PetronasTowers" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1997)

and "Taipei 101" in Taipei, Taiwan (2004). The European skyscrapers – still at the end of the ‘line’?

26.05. THE SKYSCRAPERS AFTER 9/11, 2001.– WHERE THE FUTURE RECORD-BREAKERS ARE RISING?

Wed. The irresistible attack of the Near East Skyscrapers: Dubai, Doha (Qatar), Riyadh (S. Arabia), etc.

"The Millennium Towers" – still in the virtual reality. What is going on at the "Ground Zero"?

Summary: "THE VERTICALCITY"

STUDENTS, TEACHERS,UNIVERSITY STAFF,AND FRIENDS–ARCHITECTSOR NON-ARCHITECTS –

YOU ARE ALL INVITED TO SHARE THE LECTURER’S AMERICAN AND WORLD EXPERIENCE!