De Stijl 1917-1931
neo Plasticism
the object of nature is man, the object of man is style
Piet Mondrian
Theo van Doesburg.
Gerrit Rietveld
Red Blue Chair
Gerrit Rietveld
1917
Schröder House
Netherlands 1924
Gerrit Rietveld
The ground floor was conventional, but the upper floor had numerous movable walls that allowed for spaces to be opened or closed as desired.
The staircase is concealed behind a sliding door.
wooden panels as shutters for the windows
Peter Behren
Behrens House
Darmstadt | Germany | 1901
modern objective industrial architecture
modern industrial design
AEG Turbine Factory
Peter Behren | Germany 1908
Walter Gropius | Mies Van der Rohe | Le Corbusier
junior architects
Fagus Factory
Walter Gropius + Adolf Meyer
1911-1913
Building of the School of Art
Weimar
Henry van de Velde
1911
Cathedral, cover of the manifesto and programme of the Weimar State Bauhaus | 1919
Weimar - 1919 to 1925
Dessau - 1925 to 1932
Berlin - 1932 to 1933
Oskar Schlemmer
Bauhaus Stairway 1932
Paul Klee.
Wassily Kandinsky.
László Moholy-Nagy.
Oskar Schlemmer.
Joseph Albers.
Walter Peterhans
Art Deco's ultimate aim was to end the old conflict between art and industry, the old snobbish distinction between artist and artisan, partly by making artists adept at crafts, but still more by adapting design to the requirements of mass-production
1925-1940
symmetry | rectilinear
Chrysler Building 1928
ART NOUVEAU
ART DECO
decorative
flowery
moving
motion
tendrils
intricate
fluid
sleek
streamlined
symmetrical
rigid
inorganic
geometric
curvilinear
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Bauhaus | Illinois Institute of Technology
Less is More
God is in the Details
Skin and Bone
ARCHITECTURE
rectilinear and planar forms | clean lines | pure use of colour extension of space around and beyond interior walls.
The Story
1886
Aachen, Germany
Urbig House
1917
Riehl House
1906
Friedrichstrasse Office Building
1921
Weissenhofsiedlung
1927
Barcelona Chair
Tugendhat Chair
1929
Barcelona Pavilion
1929
the Bauhaus
1930-32
Verseidag Factory
Krefeld, Germany | 1935
emigrate
1938
Armour Institute
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Minerals and Metals Building
1943
Alumni Hall
1943
Wishnick Hall
1946
S.R. Crown Hall
1956
Farnsworth House
1951
2400 square feet
Seagram Building
1958
travertine | bronze
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Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
Charles l'Eplattenier
1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Villa Fallet
1906-07
Villa Jeanneret-Perret
1912
1918
anti-cubism manifesto
Amédée Ozenfant
Purism
Paul Dermée
journal
L’Esprit Nouveau (The New Spirit)
le corbusier
Le Plan Voisin
Paris 1925
Le Corbusier believe that cities (housing) can be mass produced like cars. He believed they ought to be made up of tall, large-scale buildings (housing blocks), leaving free space for green areas and streets.
Five Points 1926
1 Pilotis
2 Roof gardens
3 Free designing of the ground plan
4 Free design of façade
5 Horizontal window
Domino House
1915
“The house is a machine for living.”
Villa Savoye
1928-31
Ronchamp 1946-1951
two entrances, an altar, and three chapels.
4’-12’ thick
Convent of La Tourette
| FRANCE | 1960
one hundred individual cells, a communal library, a refectory, a rooftop cloister, a church, and classrooms
Frank Lloyd Wright
1867-1959
Prairie school
Arts and Crafts
emphasis on nature, craftsmanship and simplicity
Louis Sullivan
organic Architecture
harmony between human habitation and the natural world
Taliesin
1911–1959
Robie House 1910
cantilever over the porch facing west that stretched outwards 10' feet from its nearest structural member and 21' from the closest masonry pier.
sheathed in Roman brick with yellow mortar, and only the overhangs and the floating brick balcony have steel beams for structural support
174 art glass windows in the Robie House made of polished plate glass, cathedral glass, and copper-plated zinc cames, which are metal joints that hold the glass in place.
1935
Fallingwater
Johnson Wax Tower | Wisconsin | 1936-39
dendriform
pyrex
Guggenheim Museum 1956-59