Title & Author:

Continuity, Context & Scale / [presented by] Edward Larrabee Barnes (Edward Larrabee Barnes Associates).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1984.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (24 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Edward Larrabee Barnes, 1984 -- Consulate At Tabriz, Iran, 1966 -- Haystack Mountain School Of Arts & Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, 1962 -- Heckscher House, Maine, 1974 -- Cowles House, Minneapolis, 1962 -- Emma Willard Faculty Housing, Troy, New York, 1967 -- Emma Willard School Library, Music & Art Building, Troy, New York, 1967 -- St Paul's School, Boys' Dormitories & Masters' Housing, Concord, New Hampshire, 1961 -- Bowdoin College Visual Art Center, Brunswick, Maine, 1976 -- Chicago Botanical Garden, Chicago, 1976 -- New York Botanical Garden, Plants & Main Building, 1975. Project -- Indian Art Museum, Museum Of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1979 -- Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 1971 -- Sarah Scaife Gallery, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1974 -- Dallas Museum Of Art, Dallas, 1983 -- New England Merchants Bank, Boston, 1971 -- IBM World Trade Corporation, Americas/Far East HQ, Mount Pleasant, New York, 1974 -- IBM Office Building, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, 1983.

Summary:

The late Edward Larrabee Barnes trained at Harvard under Gropius and Breuer. Born in Chicago, Barnes started practising architecture in New York in 1949. He taught at Pratt Institute and Yale and received many American awards and honours. A visit to Persia and Greece after a few years of practice changed his whole view of architecture as taught then at Harvard. He learned about scale and about the importance of continuity in both time and context. As a result, the materials he used are generally homogeneous covering large surface areas of his buildings; unnecessary details are eliminated; buildings are broken down into clusters to achieve human scale. He explains in his talk about architectural ideas, ideas that can't be expressed in any other medium than architecture, and he deplores "the way, in the present confusion in the architecture schools, painterly ideas are considered as substitutes for architectural thought". Some of the categories of building which he illustrates and to which he has given special attention are museums, skyscrapers and buildings for plants.

Subject:

Architectural design United States.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural États-Unis.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
United States.

Added entries:

Barnes, Edward Larrabee, 1915-2004, narrator.

Continuity, context and scale