Architecture. Зайцева И.В. - 66 стр.

tradition of the rationalist enlightenment a creator of forms which endure well beyond
his time.
         Among his works are Villa Savoye, Poissy ( 1929 -1931 ); Pavillon Suisse,
Cite Universitaire, Paris ( 1930-2 ); The Clarte apartment house in Geneva ( 1930 –
1932 ); Unite d’Habitation, Marseilles ( 1947 – 1952 ); the urban planning schemes for
large North African and South American cities ( 1930s ); the Pilgrimage church of
Notre Dame-du-Haut at Rouchamp ( 1950 – 1954 );the Carpenter Centre for the
Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1961 – 1964 ); the
plan of the city of Chandigarh, India ( 1950 – 1951 ), and others.

Notes to the text:
slab – плита
split-level dwelling unit – жилая единица в разных уровнях
sunbreaker – солнцерез
pilotis – столбы-ходули, поднимающие здание над землей
terrain – местность
capacity – способность
ramp – уклон, наклонная плоскость
to endow – наделять
to evoke – вызывать
to endure – выдерживать испытание временем



        6.6 Read the text and write the summary of it in Russian

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                               English Neoclassical Architects

        Robert Adam is one of the outstanding representatives of Neoclassicism in
England. His executed works consisted mainly of the remodeling of existing houses,
the most important of which were Osterly Park, Middlesex ( 1761 – 80 ); Syon House,
Middlesex ( 1762 – 69 ); and Kenwood House, Hampstead, London ( 1767 – 69 ). At
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire ( 1765 – 70 ), He completed James Paine’s plan and added
a garden front in which the central portion ( centerpiece ) is clearly derived from an
ancient Roman triumphal arch, the first use of this form in domestic architecture. This
use of antique forms in a new context is e recurring characteristic of Neoclassical
architecture. Adam’s planning, to which he devoted considerable attention, was based
on a variety of contrasting room shapes, each geometric in itself and contained within
an overall geometric plan yet creating a sense of movement, variety, and surprise.
Such play with shapes and spaces was to characterize Neoclassical planning,
particularly in France.
        Of the next generation the leading architects were George Dance the Younger,
Henry Holland, and James Wyatt. Dance’s Newgate Prison, London ( 1769;
demolished 1902 ), was among the most original English buildings of the century, a
grim, rusticated complex combining the romantic drama of Piranesi with the discipline