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