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UNIT I: ARCHITECTURE
Architectural Styles

Neolithic
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Greek
Ancient Roman · timeline
Medieval
Gothic
Romanesque
Traditional Japanese
Renaissance
Baroque
Victorian
Romantic
Art Nouveau · timeline
Neo-Classical
Art Deco
Early Modern
Prairie Style
Modern 
Expressionist Modern · timeline
Deconstructivist Modern
Corporate Modern
Post Modern
High Tech
Expressionist
Neo-Vernacular

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Most visited buildings:

1. Roman Colosseum
2. World Trade Center
3. Taj Mahal
4. Sagrada Familia
5. Pantheon
6. Fallingwater
7. Gateway Arch
8. The Alhambra
9. Chrysler Building
10. 30 St Mary Axe
11. Casa Batllo
12. Petronas Towers
13. 88 Wood Street
14. Johnson House
15. Casa Mila
16. Guggenheim Bilbao
17. Eiffel Tower
18. Great Pyramid
19. Notre Dame Cathedral
20. Statue of Liberty
21. St Peters of Rome
22. Experience Music Project
23. Chartres Cathedral
24. Barcelona Pavilion
25. Sydney Opera
26. Gehry House
27. Villa Savoye
28. Empire State Building
29. Aalto Summer House
30. The Parthenon


 

 


 

 Most visited architects:

1. Frank Gehry
2. unknown
3. Antonio Gaudi
4. Frank Lloyd Wright
5. Le Corbusier
6. Alvar Aalto
7. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
8. Tadao Ando
9. Norman Foster
10. Santiago Calatrava
11. Louis I. Kahn
12. Rem Koolhaas
13. I. M. Pei
14. Herzog and de Meuron
15. Eero Saarinen
16. Renzo Piano
17. Philip Johnson
18. Zaha Hadid
19. Richard Rogers
20. Mario Botta
21. Jorn Utzon
22. Richard Meier
23. Walter Gropius
24. Oscar Niemeyer
25. Charles Rennie Mackintosh
26. Luis Barragan
27. Andrea Palladio
28. Skidmore Owings and Merrill
29. Adolf Loos
30. Glenn Murcutt

 

 

 

 

 

 
LESSON 1. Chart: Chose ten styles
Name Architect Location Date Style Picture
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
            
LESSON 2. Webpage (FAVORITE STYLE)

LESSON 3. House plans

 

UNIT 2: MUSIC 
 
 
 

 

UNIT 3: ALABAMA ARTISTS
Complete the following chart:
Artist Bibliography Summary of Artist Statement or Intent Example of Artist's Work
EXAMPLE
Larry Allen

 

 

 

 

 

 Born in B'ham in 1953. Educated in Jeff Co and attended Jeff State. Earned a BA in Art from Berea College in KY. Makes demonstrations to school and church groups and has won several awards including Best in Clay, Boston Mills Art Fair, Ohio, 2005 

 

 Designs mostly inspired by Native American and African works.

Sgraffito is technique that is used-a colored slip covers a leather-hard clay vessel and then the piece is incised with a design pattern.

 

 rounded red vase with orange sgraffito petals and wide mouth
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UNIT 4: This module actively involves students in arts experiences that explore topics of interest selected by the students and teacher. Topics might include:
  • On Being a Teenager
  • Making Choices
  • Leadership
  • Families and Other Relationships
  • Drug and Alcohol Abuse
  • Sports
  • Careers
  • Authority
  • Runaways/Street Kids
  • Innovations and New Ideas
  • Politics

 
  • Crime/Violence (teen gangs,
    violence against women)
  • Fitting In
  • Discrimination
  • Poverty/The Economy/Earning
    Money
  • What is a Handicap?
  • Healthy Lifestyles
  • Psychology/Emotions/What
    Motivates People?
  • War

 
  • Suicide
  • Historical Events
  • Mysteries of the Universe
  • Fashions and Fads
  • School
  • Balancing Work and School
  • Personal Identity/Cultural
    Identity
  • Leaving Home
  • Happiness
  • Entertainment

 

 

UNIT 5: Art 1875- Style & Artists Timeline

I. Complete the chart
Style Time Period Summary of Style Artists
1. Impressionism      
2. Post-Impressionism      
3. Abstract Expressionism      
4. American Impressionism      
5. Art Nouveau      
6. Geometric Abstraction      
7. Precisionism      
8. Surrealism      
9. Abstraction      
10. Fauvism      
11. Cubism      
12 Pop Art      
 

II. Choose an artist. Construct a Webpage with biography and examples of work

III. Review        Essay on which you liked the most and why (minimum 250 words)

 

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