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Lovell Beach House Rudolf Schindler Newport Beach 1922-1926
-structural skeleton based on figure 8 -raised
Raumplan
-the manner in which 3 dimensional or vertical space is ordered -a German term (raum = room = space) used to described Adolf Loos' method of designing with clearly defined, bound spaces ("rooms") that do not freely flow into adjacent spaces, although strategic sight lines and sectional relationships may link spaces together.
Textile Block
-used by Frank Lloyd Wright - cement blocks with designs on it -cast in place
AEG Turbine Factory. Berlin (1908-09). Peter Behrens.
-steel frame rectangular structure -quality materials -sought to celebrate attributes of speed and noise -emulate greek temple
Constructivist characteristics
-straight lines cylinders cubes -merged modern elements (radio antenae, cables, concrete frames and steel girders)
Fagus Factory
1911, Alfeld (Germany) Arch: Walter Gropius -steel, brick masonry, glass -Influential rejection of ornament in the cause of functionalism
Deutscher Werkbund
A German association of artists, architects, and industrialists that sought to establish a partnership of product manufacturers with design professionals to improve the competitiveness of German companies in global markets.
Kaufman Desert House Richard Neutra Palm Springs 1946
-international desert style -earthy materials and glass
Lovell Health House Richard Neutra
-international style -qualities of desert
De Stijl
-Dutch -artist movement founded in 1917 also called neoplatism -primary colors black and white
Crown Hall, IIT
-1952-56, Chicago Arch: Mies Van Der Rohe
Samual Freeman House
-LA, Frank Lloyd Wright 1924 -woven textile blocks
Schinler chase house
- two family living residences in one -tilt up concrete -indoor outdoor sleeping canapies on roof
Ennis House
-1924, LA, Frank Lloyd Wright, Textile Blocks -structural instability
Bauhaus
-A German interdisciplinary school of fine and applied arts that brought together many leading modern architects, designers, and theatrical innovators. -Walter Gropius
Suprematism
-A Russian art movement of the early twentieth century that emphasized nonobjective form -art should be about abstractions not realities -circa 1913 -detatch meaning from symbols
Richard Nuetra
-Austrian american architect -studied under adolf loos -worked with mendelsohn and wright -designed kaufman desert house -lived in schindler chase house
Schroder House
-De Stijl architecture built by Rietveld in Holland -iconic example of de stil
Erich Mendelsohn
-Einstein Tower -(1889-1953) -german jewish architect -known for expressionist architecture -developed dynamic function w/in projects
Walter Gropius
-German architect who broke form previous design with light, airy, bright buildings of glass and iron -beauty+ usefulness = delight -bauhaus
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
-Less is more - German architect -known for international style -dirctor of bauhaus school -skeletal simple rectangular forms
Farnsworth house
-Mies Van der Rohe, Modern, Plano, Illinois -1946-1951 -steel structure glass walls -elevated for flooding -extremly simple -edith was miserable and depressed felt to exposed in the house -travertine, wood, teak, paster, steel
Adolf Loos
-Ornament is a crime -1910 -austrian architect -pioneer of modern movement
Monument to the Third International
-Vladimir Tatlin, 1920 -moscow russian constructivists prospective monument for propoganda -used as visual monumental art
Narkomfin Apartment Building
-aim of reinventing everday life for people -experimental building to embody socialist ideals -moscow 1928-1932 -gimsburg
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
-american -proponent of organic style -developed concept of usonian home -originator of prarie school
Villa Muller, Loos, Prague Czech Republic, Modernism
-asymetric symettry -reinforced concrete
Rudolf Schindler
-austrian american architect -worked on some of wrights projects
Herrmann Hat Factory
-brick concrete curves -erich mendelson
Jacobs House, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936-1937, Madison Wisconsin
-brick wood natural materials -small one story slab on grade
Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964)
-dutch furniture designer and architect -principle member of destil -architect of schroder house
expressionism
-early modern style circa 1920s -most popular in germany and nederlands -unusual massing -distortion of form -einstein tower -concrete brick and steel
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
-german architect industrial designer -major designer of factories and office buildings -industrial designer
Arts and Crafts movement
-hand made -distrust of the machine -artisan elements + very decoritve -ex: victorian + bungalows
Paris metro station entry
-hector Guimard -flowing curves + pre fab -first + most well known public art novuau
Neoplastism
-ideal art in which only basic elements color light form were used in their purest most fundemental state
Lilly Riech (1885-1948)
-mies wife -german modern designer -furniture designer -artistic partner to mies on barcelona pavilion
Usonian Homes (1936-1959)
-no attic no basements little ornamentation -united states of north america -unlike internation they celebrated local surroundings -optimal sun southern orientation
Art Noveua
-peaked 20th cent (1890-1905) -floral motifs -"new art" -embraces new technology like pre fab
Adolf loos minimalist style
-planar walls and windows -straight lines -clean curves -raumplan system of continuos, merging spaces
Barcelona Pavilion (1929). Mies van der Rohe.
-represent new wiemer germany -represents cultural values of germany -at universal exibition open plan -high quality materials
Futurism
-speed, youth, technology, the automobile, violence -out with the old in with the new -Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -the machine drive us into new existence
Kaufman House (Fallingwater) 1936
A beautiful building designed by FLR that was built over a stream/river in Pennsylvania. It featured a "syntax of materials" containing vertical piers clad with rough limestone; beige stucco edges on horizontal slabs; and red, steel-sash glazing. It features a fluidity on the inside as you move down through the space, much like the river flows down the hill.
Johnson Wax Building
Frank Lloyd Wright Racine, Wisconsin 1936-1939 -lilly pads and pyrex tobe ceiling
Organic Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright, used this type of architecture. This style flowed in harmony with its natural surroundings
Einstein tower
Erich Mendelsohn - Potsdam, Germany - 1921
Bauhaus directors
Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies
dendriform columns
like a tree
