What’s on the Buildings to Know poster
A 8-row table: Building · Architect · Date.
Architect and completion date.
- Pantheon, Rome — Unknown — about 126
- Villa Rotonda — Palladio — from 1566
- Crystal Palace — Paxton — 1851
- Villa Savoye — Le Corbusier — 1931
- Farnsworth House — Mies — 1951
- Sydney Opera House — Utzon — 1973
- Centre Pompidou — Piano, Rogers — 1977
- Guggenheim Bilbao — Gehry — 1997
This canon is narrow: heavily European and American, and almost entirely male. Knowing that is part of knowing the canon.
Questions about the Buildings to Know poster
- What’s on the Buildings to Know poster?
- A 8-row table: Building · Architect · Date. Architect and completion date. Pantheon, Rome — Unknown — about 126; Villa Rotonda — Palladio — from 1566; Crystal Palace — Paxton — 1851; Villa Savoye — Le Corbusier — 1931; Farnsworth House — Mies — 1951; Sydney Opera House — Utzon — 1973; Centre Pompidou — Piano, Rogers — 1977; Guggenheim Bilbao — Gehry — 1997. This canon is narrow: heavily European and American, and almost entirely male. Knowing that is part of knowing the canon.
- Who is the Buildings to Know poster for?
- Buildings to Know belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning history & theory can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Buildings to Know poster?
- Use it as a checklist. If you cannot draw the plan from memory, go and study it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Buildings to Know belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Buildings to Know?
- The Classical Orders, What Each Movement Opposed and Baroque sit alongside Buildings to Know in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Classical OrdersWhat Each Movement OpposedBaroque
- Is the Buildings to Know poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Buildings to Know downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Buildings to Know poster print at?
- Buildings to Know is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Buildings to Know loses nothing.Printing guide
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