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Write an essay that explains how TWO of the images on the back (which you should fully identify) illustrate this.

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Question 1 (3-4 typed, double-spaced pages). We have seen that for many designers and builders, architecture meant something more conceptual or emotional than simply putting up a useful building within a certain budget. Write an essay that explains how TWO of the images on the back (which you should fully identify) illustrate this. Your essay should address ONE of the issues below. The essay MUST, before you start discussing the buildings, begin with one or two paragraphs explaining why the issue you chose was important in architecture, and narrating some general facts, dates, writers and arguments that were important to it. You must also refer to architects and buildings not illustrated in the exam. (The assigned chapters on myWPI from Kenneth Frampton’s Modern Architecture do this well. Wikipedia essays not so much—andIn addition to correct identifications and solid descriptions and explanations, your essay should demonstrate a range of understanding of the topic—that is, coverage of more than one architect, style, period, building type.

Provide a short written commentary, explanation or question as a response to each of the following five quotes from the article.

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Assignment Two:

Read Kenneth Frampton’s article ‘Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance’. Provide a short written commentary, explanation or question as a response to each of the following five quotes from the article. Responses should be no more than three (3) sentences.

  1. Today the practice of architecture seems to be increasingly polarized between, on the one hand, a so-called high-tech approach predicated exclusively upon production and, on the other, the provision of a “compensatory facade” to cover up the harsh realities of this universal system. (Frampton- pp. 18)
  2. The arts could save themselves from this leveling down only by demonstrating that the kind of experience they provided was valuable in its I own right and not to be obtained from any other kind of activity.’ (Frampton quoting Clement Greenberg- pp. 21)
  3. Architecture can only be sustained today as a critical practice if it assumes I an arriere-garde position, that is to say, one which distances itself equally from the Enlightenment myth of progress return and from a reactionary, unrealistic impulse to return to the architectonic forms of the preindustrial past.  (Frampton- pp. 22)
  4. “Western civilization habitually identifies itself with civilization as I such on the pontifical assumption that what is not like it is a deviation, less advanced, primitive, or, at best, exotically interesting at a safe distance. ” (Frampton quoting Aldo van Eyck- pp. 24)
  5. The bulldozing of an irregular topography into a flat site is clearly a technocratic gesture which aspires to a condition of absolute placelessness, whereas the terracing of the same site to receive the stepped form of a building is an engagement in the act of “cultivating” the site. (Frampton- pp. 29)