The Reyner Banham Archive of Los Angeles - Guillermo Gonzalez Cebrian

THE REYNER BANHAM ARCHIVE OF LOS ANGELES GUILLERMO GONZALEZ-CEBRIAN - GUILLERMO.GONZALEZCEBRIAN@GMAIL.COM - 4TH YEAR STUDENT - NOV, 2016

GUILLERMO GONZALEZ-CEBRIAN guillermo.gonzalezcebrian@gmail.com 4th year of Architecture - Nov, 2016.

South Dakota State University

“More than any other art, architecture strives toward the typical. Only in this can it find fulfillment. Only in the all-embracing and continuous pursuit of this aim can it regain that effectiveness and undoubted assurance that we admire in the works of past times that marched along the road of homogeneity.�

-Hermann Muthesius

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................

ECOLOGY AND FOUR OCCUPANTS COLLAGES...............................................

ELEVATIONS AND FIVE SECTIONS............................................................................

SITE PLAN AND EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC WITH FLOOR PLANS...........

CLASS MODEL PICTURE...............................................................................................

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT MODEL PICTURES..............................................................

BAUHAUS STYLE PROJECT COLLAGE......................................................................

THE REYNER BANHAM ARCHIVE OF LOS ANGELES

Instructor: Charles MacBride

Class: Architectural Studio I - Spring 2016

The project consisted of an archive for the educator and architectural historian Reyner Banham. The archive was designed as a cantilevered structure over the Santa Monica Freeway in Los Angeles. Reyner Banham (1922-88) was a prolific English writer and architectural critic, trained under the noted historian Nikolaus Pevsner at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He befriended the unfluential British Independent Group, was a strict modernist who rejected historicism of any kind, and drew lessons from the machine age spirit in modern architecture.

The proposal needed to house a gallery and active repository for Banham’s works. The project started by researching about the different stages of Banham’s career, since he had different scopes of interest throughout his career, which can be clearly seen on his writings. After going through his writings, the field that interested me the most was his very first book, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, in which he discusses about Modernism, its development, and most influential exponents. This field of study defined my “ecology”, of equal interest for me as for Professor Banham, which drove and supported my vision for the archive building.

My ecology was based on the First Machine Age, mainly on the first years of the 20th century. With that said, the works of architects such as Walter Groupius, Peter Behrens, Bruno Taut, Hermann Muthesius, as well as the work by the Deutscher Werkbund and The Bauhaus, served as inspiration for this project. The project used their precedents, not only for the visual aspects of the design, but also for the selection of material. Concrete, black steel and glass became the most important materials of the project.The archive was conceived as a place occupied by four characters: The Scholar, a visitor, uses the archive as a place for writing and study, and has a fantasy with the past. The Craftsman (also an artist), who, in Los Angeles, is concerned with “finishing in high style”. The Tourist, or consumer, is interested in casually inspecting the building and the city. The Caretaker, also an archivist, lives in, tends to, and curates the archive.

Above (From left to right): 1. Reyner Banham. 2. The Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany by Walter Gropius. 3. The Fagus Factory in Alfeld on the Leine, Germany by Walter Gropius.

Above: Ecology Collage. Conception of the project ecology with a mixture of images representing the concept ideas that would push the project forward.

Above (From top to bottom): The Four Occupants of the archive. 1. The Tourist Collage. 2. The Scholar Collage 3. The Craftsman Collage. 4. The Caretaker Collage.

SECTION 05

SECTION 04

SECTION 03

SECTION 02

SECTION 01

Santa Monica Freeway

Building Parameters & Site

The project occupies one of 14 total vertical “lots� (one per each student of the class).The lots sit in a continuous line along West 17th Street in Los Angeles. Access to the archive is from the ground plane.

The archive has one public stair core that must connect grade with the bridge level, all interior archive levels, and the roof.

Gallery

SECTION 04

SECTION 05

Scholar

Open

SECTION 02

SECTION 01

Craftsman

SECTION 03

Residential

0ft

12ft

24ft

48ft

Lecture Room, Study Room, Open, Assembly Room, Residence.

FOURTH LEVEL

Exhibition Room, Library, Void, Shop, Residence.

THIRD LEVEL

Exhibition Room, Library,Void, Shop, Residence.

SECOND LEVEL

Exhibition Room, Study Room, Open, Assembly Room, Lobby.

FIRST LEVEL

MEGAN LEEBENS

TED LACOURSIERE

MEGAN WELBIG

JARED MULDER

JOHN ANGULU

NICK KUMMER

KAITLYN WALKER

SETH VARTY

GUILLERMO GONZALEZ-CEBRIAN

CASSIE POSPISHIL

SHARON SANCHEZ

CODY BLEVINS

JACOB RICKIE

“Far higher than the material is the spiritual; far higher than function, material and technique, stands form. These three aspects might be impeccably handled but - if form were not - we would still be living in a merely brutish world. So there remains before us an aim, a much greater and more important task:

to awaken once more an understanding of form, and the renewal of architectonic sensibilities.�

-Hermann Muthesius

GUILLERMO GONZALEZ-CEBRIAN BIRTH PLACE - DATE CURRENT ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER E-MAIL ADDRESS WEBSITE

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico -April 1st, 1994 100 Medary Ave S, Brookings, SD, United States (605)6905061 guillermo.gonzalezcebrian@jacks.sdstate.edu www.guillermogonzalezcebrian.com

HIGHLIGHTS ARCHITECTURE 2016 - Assisted with AIA South Dakota Merit Design Award winner project - Mobridge, SD Drawings Set. 2016 - Porto Academy Summer School at the Faculty of Architecture at University of Porto (FAUP) - Portugal.

2016 - Precast Concrete Institution National Conference in Nashville, TN - Presented SDSU Public Works.

GOLF NCAA Division 1 Student Athlete at South Dakota State University.

LEADERSHIP Current President of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) SDSU Chapter.

Its mission is to champion diversity within the design professions by promoting the excellence, comm-

unity engagement, and professional development.

2014 - current President of DoArch International Group (DIG).

Its mission is to present different cultures brought by international students to all South Dakota State

University architecture students, by the organization of events that involve different traditions, food, etc.

LANGUAGES English, Spanish, Portuguese.

EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE 2014 - present South Dakota State University

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture - expected 2017

Current GPA - 3.32 HIGH SCHOOL 2013 - Instituto Cumbres Merida,Yucatan, Mexico.

2012 - Tecnologico de Monterrey Campus Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.

2011 - Instituto Cumbres Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.

EMPLOYMENT SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY August 2016 - present (DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE) Undergraduate Teacher Assistant - Public Works Collaborative Studio ARCH 351.

Summer 2016 Precast Concrete Project Assistant - Part of the Project Design Team and City Council Connection Builder Public Project in Volga, SD. January 2016 - May 2016 Undergraduate Research Assistant - Professor Federico Garcia Lammers, Department of Architecture.

Project 1: El Shopping and Tuberculosis: the first temple of consumption in Uruguay.

Project 11: Original Fakes: Eladio Dieste’s self plagiarism and sacred space.

GOLF Personal Instructor 2013 - Members of Yucatan Golf Club “La Ceiba”, Merida, Mexico.

2012 - Members of Campestre de Saltillo Golf Club, Saltillo, Mexico.

SKILLS SOFTWARE FABRICATION DRAWING MUSIC

Rhinoceros, Grasshoper, Revit, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign.

Lassercutter, MakerBot 3D Printer, Powder 3D Printer, Model Making.

Sketching, Drafting, 3D Models, Architectural Drawings.

Guitar and Piano.

TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL Brazil, Panama, Canada, Portugal, Spain.

MEXICO Nuevo Leon, Jalisco,Yucatan, Mexico City, Chihuaha, Tamaulipas, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi, Durango, Coahuila, Baja California, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Puebla,Veracruz.

UNITED STATES South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Colorado, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, New York, Indiana.

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