ITESM - Art History

Frank Lloyd made a weird architecture called "The Guggenheim Museum" it is strange because the top is bigger than the bottom like a ice cream cone. It was built in New York City between 1956-1959 and its purpose was to be a museum of 20th century.
Another weird museum that is in New York City is the "Whitney Museum of American Art" this one is very strange because it is like blocks that are not organized very difficult to explain its better if you see it by your self in the picture above. It has trapezoidal windows and it is constructed with concrete and dark gray granite blocks.

Geodesic Domes

One of the most distinctive architects of the 20th century was R. Buckminster Fuller he expressed ideas of changing and solving the world's problems with technology. One of the firsts architecture he made was called "Dymaxion" the name comes from the words "Dynamic" and "Maximum" the cost of making it was the same as it costs to make a car, after that he made de "Dymaxion Car" tht had 3 wheels but it wasn't sold to the public too. He also invented the Geodesic Dome this structure is made by lots of same kind of geometric shapes put together to form a sphere. This type of architecture is cheap and easy to build. An example of it is the American Pavilion of the Montreal Expo of 1967.

Post-Modernism: The Piazza d'Italia

This architecture combines differente old styles to make a new style, this movement reached lot of places. An example of this kind of architecture is "The Piazza d'Italia" in New Orleans, it is a combination of Classical, Renaissance, and Baroque styles with a modern touch like different colored neon lights to highlight the round arch, the Corinthian columns, and the curved colonnades.

The Louvre Pyramid

The government of France reconstructed the Louvre Museum in 1983 one of he new things the put in it was a glass and steel pyramid in the middle of the court, they finished it in 1988, it was redesigned by I.M. Pei. Inside the pyramid there are reception areas, stores, conference rooms and other things. People of Paris didn't agree that a glass pyramid blocked the baroque style museum but because the pyramid is of glass you can see through it the palace.

The 1986 Lloyd's Building

Lloyd's of London needed new buildings in 1977 so Richard Rogers designed a new building. He had to design the building in an irregular triangle surface. In the middle of the building there is a structure in a rectangle shape that goes from the bottom to the top of the building. He moved all elevators, ducts, toilets, etc to two towers at the side of the structure to save space and if some elevator or duct gets broken it wont disturb the main building. and the roof is an arch shape made of glass and steel.