Exam 2 Study Guide Modern Architecture

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Usonian House

"American" Houses made by Frank Loyd Wright. Affordable for Middle-Class. Characteristics include: Glass, carports, flat roofs, and native buildings.

3 Tenets of International Style

1. Emphasis on volume and lightness, not mass. 2. Regularity over symmetry. 3. No adornment. Formal style, not defined by materials.

Art Deco Style

A water-downed avante-garde American Architecture Style that features: Lots of Adornment: mainly geometric shapes, often used man-made materials. Inspirations of Egyptian and Pre-Colombian temples.

Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith, Park Hill, Sheffield, UK, 1961

Around 1,000 apartments, built on a sloping site "streets in the sky" idea - continuous sky streets at every third level Very snake like from bird's eye-view

Alison and Peter Smithson Secondary school at Hunstanton, Norfolk, UK 1954

Brutalism, without concrete.

Brutalism

Defined itself as tough, principled alternative to "picturesque" Political and social purpose, could change the everyday lives of many on a large scale. Embraced by Architects, hated by the public. Namestake: béton brut, the French term for raw concrete

béton brut

French term for raw concrete

International Style

Henry-Russel and Phillip Johnson's Modern Art Exhibit "Propaganda" for popularizing European Modernism in United States. Rejected Frank Lloyd Wright as a precursor and Rudolph Schindler for his mass.

The 1951 Festival of Britain

Includes: the Skylon and the Royal Festival Hall "Contemporary," "New Empiricism," "Picturesque" Style A fusion between two apparently opposed traditions: the rigours of international modernism and the English picturesque tradition"

Walter Gropius, Dessau Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926

International Style exhibit photo.

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), designer Gordon Bunshaft, Lever House, New York, 1952

Looks like a Playstation console

building wrapped in ruins

Louis I. Kahn quote

Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson

Museum of Modern Art curators that created and promoted the International style

What did the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project signify?

The Death of Modern Architecture/ Le Corbusier's idea of the Radiant City. Showcased how Urban renewal failed as a solution-cure for poverty.

Eero Saarinen, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, 1947-66

Urban Renewal Example: The St. Louis riverfront was demolish to make way for the Arch.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Jacobs House, Madison, Wisconsin, 1936

Usonian House Example

Bauhaus Refugees, architects fleeing Nazi Germany

Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies Der Rohe. Became Professional Educators USA and influenced modern architecture in USA

Le Corbusier, Chapel of Notre-Dame-de Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1950

Was considered the end of the International Style. Pilgrimage church with massive, hollow, and expressive floating roof. Not honest with materials, reinforced concrete walls covered in plaster/stucco.

Eero Saarinen, Kennedy Airport: TWA Terminal, New York, 1956-1962

dissatisfied with International, concrete used in organic and expressive forms

John Entenza's Case Study Program (Arts and Architecture magazine)

experiments in American domestic architecture, which commissioned major architects of modern architecture

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, 1928

included in International Style Exhibit

Paul Rudolph, Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1962

ridge-hacked concrete on exterior

Picturesque

thinks of design as creating a series of visual pictures


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