Modern Architecture MIDTERM

corporations, limited profit corporations, and cities

1920's Housing project were funded in three ways

Le Corbusier, Pavillon de L-Esprit Nouveau, Paris, 1925

Le Corbusier, Apartments, could stack up

Sullivan, Guaranty Building, Baffalo 1894

The top of the building is curved

Russian -Cubism/ Plurism

"Suprematism"

Holand -Cubism/ Plurism

"The Style", "De Stijl"

Plasticity (Wright)

Wholeness/ seamless./ design that moves across structural elements to creat continuity in appearance/ detachment from design and structure./ from structural honesty to creative freedom./ plasticizing leads to a delete as to how things are put together. the millers do not seem weight-bearing but rather part of the wholeness

Organic (wright)

continuity between all design at all levels/ wholeness

Gothic styles

do more with less materials

Gropius, Bauhaus, Dessau, 1924-26

original Bauhaus

Form follows function (Sullivan)

symbolic function/ to accentuate the character of the building (tallness)

organamorphic/ Naturalism

whiplash, Art Nouveau