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Post-War Expansion. Key Issues. Key Issues: Post-War higher education enrollments increase five-fold. 1000 new campuses and 100,000 new buildings built. Generation shift in clients and architects. A new architectural language. Modern Architecture: form vs. function.
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Key Issues • Key Issues: • Post-War higher education enrollments increase five-fold. • 1000 new campuses and 100,000 new buildings built. • Generation shift in clients and architects. • A new architectural language. • Modern Architecture: form vs. function. • Technical innovation and economics of modern construction. • Emancipation from tradition. • Cultural significance of progress. • Object-buildings replace group plans. • Carnegie Tech becomes Carnegie Mellon University in 1967.
Victor CA Farrar, Marks & Kann. Morewood Gardens. 1927. Acq. 1946.
Harry D. Gilchrist. Mudge house. 1922. Acq. 1957. Edwin L. Lutyens. Nashdom. 1909.
Janssen & Abbott. Dreifuss house. 1914. Acq. 1999. Edwin L. Lutyens. Dormy house. 1906.
In designing Mellon Institute the most unusual problem was to produce a monumental exterior which Mr. Mellon was particularly anxious to have, and at the same time preserve an absolutely practical laboratory building. The requirements of the building made necessary about six and one-half million cubic feet, which is the equivalent of a very large office building...Another wish of Mr. Mellon's was to have the building low and horizontal in proportion, the very opposite of a high building. In order to design a low building it was necessary to go down into the ground three very high stories so that the appearance from the outside world would be that of a monument. The proportions of the three street facades is very nearly the same as the long lateral facade of the Parthenon on the Acropolis at Athens...To start with we thought that this was a fine precedent. --Janssen & Cocken Janssen & Cocken. Mellon Institute for Industrial Research. 1931-1937. Acq. 1967.
Ictinos et al. Parthenon. Athens. 448-438 B.C. Carl Friedrich Schinkel. Altes Museum. Berlin. 1823.
Janssen & Cocken. Mellon Institute for Industrial Research. 1931-1937. Acq. 1967.
Francis Keally et al. Doherty Hall Headhouse Addition. 1949-1950.
Eliel & Eero Saarinen. Chirst Church Lutheran. Minneapolis. 1949.
Donner Hall [is] a distinctive, distinguished building—imaginative in conception, outstanding in technical performance, carried through with taut and sensitive controls of planning, proportions, and detailing…The architects have chosen to throw their weight toward as new a beginning architecturally as is possible at the moment. --Tally McKee Mitchell & Ritchey. Donner Hall. 1954.
Mitchell & Ritchey. U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center. 1955. Acq. 1993.
Rice, Schweikher et al. Campus Master Plan. 1957-1959. • Celli-Flynn. School of Printing Management. (unbuilt) • Celli-Flynn. Engineering and Science Building. (unbuilt) • Lawrie and Green. Hunt Library. 1960. • Ingham Pratt and Boyd. Campus Activities Center (unbuilt) • Stotz, Charles M. and Edward Stotz. Dramatic Arts Center (not shown/unbuilt)
Mies van der Rohe. Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago. 1939-1956.
Lawrie & Green. Hunt Library. 1957-1961. “The Radiator”
Griswold, Winter and Swain. Fine Arts Garden (Peace Garden). 1961.
Altenhof & Bown. Scaife Hall. 1962. “The Potato Chip”
Edward Durrell Stone. U.S. Embassy. New Delhi. 1954. Eliel Saarinen. Kresge Auditorium, MIT. 1953-1955.
Charles Luckman Assoc. Warner Hall. 1966. “The Flashcube”
Sasaki, Dawson & DeMay. Campus Master Plan. 1968. • Paul Schweikher. Fine Arts Complex. (unbuilt) • Deeter Ritchey Sippel. Wean Hall. 1968-1971. • Curry and Martin. Fraternity Quadrangle. 1968-1970. • Sasaki, Dwason & DeMay. Skibo Addition. (unbuilt)
Le Corbusier. Millowners’ Association Building. Ahmedabad, India. 1954.
Paul Schweikher. Duquesne University Student Union. 1968-1971.