SHELTER:
Essential Questions:
• What kinds of shelter have been designed
for group living and for individual homes?
• What architecture has been developed for
the commercial world?
Domestic Architecture:
Group Living
Pueblo Bonito (Pretty Village): Anasazi, New Mexico
(11th Century)
Dogon Cliff Dwellings with Granaries (Mali, Africa)
date from 1200 CE to present day
Moshe Safdie: Habitat ’67 (Montreal, Canada)
Domestic Architecture:
Individual Homes
House of the Vettii: Pompeii, Italy (62 – 69 CE)
Andrea Palladio: Villa Rotunda (Italy, 1552)
Central watchtower, architectural model, (Eastern Han
Dynasty, 1st–early 3rd century, China)
Toba Batak House, Indonesia
North American Sioux: Tipi cover (late 1800s)
Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater (Pennsylvania, USA)
1936 - 1938
Commercial Architecture:
Markets of Trajan, Rome (100 – 112 CE)
Louis H. Sullivan: Carson Pirie Scott and Company
(Chicago, USA) 1904
R. Buckminster Fuller: US Pavilion (Montreal, Canada,
Expo 67)
I. M. Pei and Partners: Bank of China (Hong Kong) 1989
Charles Moore with U.I.G. and Perez Associates: Piazza
d’Italia (New Orleans, USA) 1975 - 80
Zaha Hadid: Opus (design only) Dubai, United Arab
Emerates