Organization of Taliesin West

Im not quite sure if Frank Lloyd Wright had a set organization for Taliesin West, but i do know that he designed it so that the majority of the buildings would face the Mountains. Wright patterned it to resemble the flow of and feeling of the desert surrounding it. So the organization of each sector was rather random, but Wright tried to encorporate the building into the surrounding features of the desert terrain and mountains.

WTC Organization

The World Trade Center's organization was just like many of the office buildings you see around the world today. The Twin Towers were 2 100+ story office buildings located in downtown Manhattan. They were structured like any other office building - many stories high, with many floors of office space. The proportion and scale of the 2 were identical, giving them the infamous nickname of the "Twin Towers."

Building Organization

I do not think that the building that I did (The Aronoff Center) had a set organization structure, or a particular proportion and scale. I think that it does not have one becasue of the way it was designed and built. It was designed to have slanted wall, windows, and floors; which created different scales and proportions for each room.

The Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen is a very simple design and every line of the arch fits perfectly into a very simple parabolic equation. Also known as an inverted catenary arch it's equation is -127.7ft x cosh(x/127.7ft) + 757.7ft
Nathan Rasmussen

The building I found most interesting was the extension to the Denver Art Museum by Daniel Libeskind. It's sharp straight lines should appear as if parts of the building are toppling over, but instead they appear to be reaching out to the sky and almost float.
Nathan Rasmussen

Organization Aspects of Bloch Bldg

The organization of the Bloch addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum is similar to that of any museum. It is a series of halls with galleries branching off all the way down through the five linked buildings. Just looking at the Bloch addition is deceiving as far as scale goes though. The five buildings are set up in a manner that is supposed to represent lenses. These five lenses are all connected underground. They appear as one main building and four smaller offshoots... but really they are one large space that exists as much underground as it does above. This smaller appearance in above-ground size was to achieve a sense of balance with the grand original Nelson building. This way the two parts, new and old, of the Nelson can appear proportional while still giving more needed space underground.

Favorite Building

Of all the buildings available to research, my favorite was the Beijing National Stadium by Herzog & de Meuron. It was impressive that the inspiration for the stadium came from a piece of Chinese culture and heritage, their ceramic pottery. So often the designs of new buildings seem arbitrary and of a more personal artistic view than they seem to represent the area or culture they are to be a part of. The architects managed to create a new piece of original architecture, while keeping it relevant to the heritage of the country it would reside in.