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St. John's Presbyterian Church (Details)
- Redwood - Parallel Gables - Non-hierarchical - One cross - No insulation - Exposed scissor beams - Arts & Crafts Architecture
Grundtvigs Kirke (Details)
- Revival Style- Stripped - Overpower scale - Surrounded by public housing - Sculptural Exterior - Verticality & Scale - Introducing historical elements - Stripped down & monochrome interior
Greenbelt, Maryland (Details)
- Rowhouses and Apartments - Stripped down & modern - Abundance of trees & garden - Complex & Uniform - Housing projects
Schocken Department Store (Details)
- Series of department stories - Ribbon Windows - Floating & Glazed Spiral Staircase - Brings store onto the street
Rockefeller Center (Details)
- Skyscraper Complex - Stripped Down - Horizontal Slabs w/ Setbacks - Buildings that frame main one - Stone Cladding - Uniform Quality - Symmetric
Zaanstraat Housing Estate (Architect)
Michel de Klerk
Seagram Building (Architect)
Mies Van Der Rohe & Phillip Johnson
Palace of the Soviets (Location)
Moscow, USSR
Glass House (Location)
New Caanan, CT
The Chrysler Building (Location)
New York, New York
Villa Mairea (Location)
Noormarkku, Finland
Unity Temple (Location)
Oak Park, IL
Monument to the Third International (Architect)
Vladimir Tatlin
Plan for Berlin (Architect)
Albert Speer
St. John's Presbyterian Church (Location)
Berkeley, CA
Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Housing Estate) (Patron)
Berlin Government
Plan for Berlin (Location)
Berlin, German
AEG Turbine Factory (Location)
Berlin, Germany
Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Housing Estate) (Location)
Berlin-Britz, Germany
Palace of Fine Arts (Architect)
Bernard Maybeck
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building (Architect)
Howe & Lescaze
Chicago Tribune Tower, Winning (Architect)
Howells & Hood
Bauhaus (Architects)
Walter Gropius & Adolf Meyer
Model Factory (Location)
Werkbund Exposition, Germany
EUR (Patron)
Italian Government
Open-Air School (Architects)
Johannes Duiker & Bernard Bijvoet
St. John's Presbyterian Church (Architect)
Julia Morgan
EUR (Location)
Rome, Italy
Vers Une Architecture (Details)
- Promote Ideas of Architecture - Promote his ideas - Mature Art Form - Comparing Architecture to Machinery - "A house is a machine for living"
Palace of the Soviets (Details)
- A government building - Has massive statue at the top; - Incredible in Scale - Demonstrates a hierar0chy - Stripped down classic revival - To be taller than the Empire State Building
Johnson Wax Administration Building (Details)
- Adminisration Building - Curves - Varying height of planes - Concrete "lilipad" stilts - Series of skylights - Designs furniture -
Chicago Tribune Tower Competition (2) (Detail)
- Arts & Crafts - Modern, Sleek & Stripped Down - Gothic & Classical - Patterns of Fenestration -
Schroder House (Details)
- Blue, red and yellow - Floating planes - Playful design - Lines of color - Has flexibility, utopian flexibility - Movable screens - Sometimes unpractical - Light-filled - Simple
Glass House (Details)
- Complete Glass House - Steel framed - Simple volumes - No lights - Modern, stripped down and sleek - Perfect structure
Open-Air School (Details)
- Concrete & Metal Steel - Well Maintained - Light & Air keeps people healthy - Dematerialized Structures - Too much heat & sunlight
The Chrysler Building (Details)
- Corpoerate Emblem - Setbacks & Symmetry - Balance - Stainless Steel Top - Sleek & Modern - "Space Ship"
Laboratory Tower (Details)
- Curvy - Lights up beautifully - Not flexible for scientists - Not very practical -
Eames House (Detail)
- De Shtijl - Metal Framed - Outstanding amount of personality and decoration - Glass - Double height - Collections & Custom Furniture
Schindler/Chase House (Details)
- Designed for himself and wife - Spread over landscape - Flat roof & Open air - Complex Plan - Rooms flow into each other - Horizontal Planes - Inspired by Japanese's Architecture - Sliding Panels & Fluid Space - Furniture Designed
Lovell "Health" House (Details)
- Embody principals of Lovell House - Falling out w/ Frank Lloyd Wright - 100% over budget - Healthy living with sunlight and air - Lightweight - Assembled in 48 hours - Sprayed Cement - Solid/Void - Metal Windows w/ Pool on Bottom Floor - Expansive Space - Custom Furniture
Palace of Fine Arts (Detail)
- Enormous Convention - Classical Inspired Building - End of Fair - Art of the world; Palace of fine arts - Classical Revival - Use of color & Ruin - Destroyed atmosphere - Inspired by "Isle of the Dead" - Metal Frame made out of Plaster; Rebuilt in concrete - Colonnade with river in front - Ladies look sad - Articulate Corinthian orders - Picturesque Interpretation of Classic Revival - Just a stage set
Dom-ino House (Details)
- Framework - Simplicity & Modular - Stripped - Economical - Only published as an idea - Reinforced concrete
Fallingwater (Details)
- Horizontal & Vertical Planes - Extraordinary Cantilevers - Noted Compression & Release - Light-filled; natural - Within the context, of the context - Picturesque rather than practical - Display of materiality - Steel framed, plaster & thin stone
Model Factory (Details)
- Horizontal Lines - Flat roofs - Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright - Model Factory - Office building & design factory - Glazed curtain wall - Machine Derived - Glass staircase; completely glazed
Casa Del Fascio (Details)
- House of the Fascists - Stripped down modernist - Concrete Frame - Simple courtyard and volumes - Concrete Slabs - Each facade is different - Balcony that is inset from facade - Polished Marble
Dymaxion House (Details)
- Interesting form - Extravagant & Boundary pushing
Monument to the Third International (Detail)
- Introducing of iron - Reflectant upon Eiffel tower - Extravagant & Abstract - Massive Scale - Twisting Steel
Plan for Berlin (Details)
- Long axial parkway - Demolish existing buildings to create monumental roadway - Triumphal Arch - 430 ft tall Dome Building - Incredible Scale in Triumphal Arch & Domes - Unbuildable due to incredible scale - Meant to be a gathering space for rallies, events, etc.
EUR (Details)
- Major and Minor Axes - Government City - Stripped Classicism - Glass Facade & Collonade - Arcade Building & Stripped Down Modern Facade - Glass Skyscraper
Broadacre City (Details)
- Model - Depicting agriculture - Spread out & Green - No skyscraper - Open & Vast - Garden Scheme
Chicago Tribune Tower, Winning (Details)
- Ornamentation - Gothic Revival - Verticality - Transition Study - Base & Shaft Transition - Steel Framed Structure - Stone & Terracotta - Flying Buttresses are not structural
Brick Villa Project (Details)
- Pinwheel Plan - Lines & Planes - Planes are used to define space - Fluid Interior; Breaking the box
The Einstein Tower (Details)
- Sponsor new observatory - Make observations of cosmos - German government helping - Thick brush on white paper - Sense of energy - Dynamism - Revealing building in abstract manner - Reinforced concrete - Brick & Covered with Plaster to imitate concrete
Villa Mairea (Details)
- Strikingly Modern - Organic Material & Detail - In the Forest - Need to direct light into house - Formal Dining Room & Stairs - Economic - Open to the outside completely - Integrated Within Landscape
Seagram Building (Details)
- Stripped Down Modern Skyscraper - Setback from street - Metal Cladding & Curtain Wall - Expression of Material - I beams demonstrate verticality - No benches; who do we want to invite into the building
Steiner House (Detail)
- Stripped of Ornamental Detail - No attempt for traditional arrangements - Windows where needed; no order - Greater & More rational approach - Modern & Simple Interior - Severe
Barcelona Pavilion (Details)
- Taken down & Reconstructed - Glass Curtain Wall - Floating Roof - Sequence of walls & planes - Abstraction - Pools that abstract the light; and cools property - Precious & Simple Materials - Luxury Materials
AEG Turbine Factory (Details)
- Temple - Huge Pediment - Solid form - Advanced building for time - Balance of proportion & symmetry - Chamfered & Rounded corners - Rustication - Horizontality and verticality - Extensive Glass Curtain Wall - Industrial Material
Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Details)
- Tuberculosis Patients - Hygiene - Oriented South To Catch Sunlight - Community & Management Spaces - Pinwheel; Maximum light & air - Straight Forward Doctors Houses - A lot of color, curved glass & light - Lots of plants - Incorporation of Skylights
Contemporary City (Details)
- Uniform - Flat piece - Super highways - Triumphal Arches - 60 story tall skyscrapers - Expanses of Open Spaces - More Dense
Zaanstraat Housing Estate (Details)
- Use brick as a fluid material - Public housing - Great courtyard garden - Using different color brick - Carved and circulating brick - 30 different kinds of windows - No standardization - Master of color composition - Abstract spire - Bay window (Pregnant) - Individuality
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building (Details)
- Very successful Firm - "First modern skyscraper" - Stripped down and Rationalist - Curvy Part on Ground Floor (Commercial) - Horizontal Stacked Floors - Modernity and Energy - Polished Granite - Designs Furniture - First example of super graphics in united states
Bauhaus (Details)
- Vocation School - Industrial School - Industrial Glazing - Modern Lettering & Super Graphics - Heavy Upper mass; dark ground floor - 28 Studio Rooms - Light filled Rooms - Emphasis of Volume, rather than mass - Brick covered in stucco
Gamble House (Detail)
- Winter Home - Large piece of land - Japanese's Exposed Woodwork - Low hovering eaves - Chalet - Bands of window - Brick, stucco & exposed wood - Planting & Planters Built Into Structure - Every corner is chamfered - Staircase (Waterfall) - Designs furniture & light features -
Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Housing Estate) (Details)
-Extensive Backyards & Farms - Pond in middle of horseshoe - Small situations & moves that create the composition - Water colors, and materials for certain facades - Different kinds of trees for identity - Everything was included within the complex - Desirable & Well Maintained - Custom Furniture - Custom Doors for Individuality
Vers Une Architecture (Towards An Architecture)
1923
AEG Turbine Factory (Patron)
AEG Company
"Tragic commentary on how we throw away our national heritage"
Ada Louise Huxtable, New York Times, 1970
Plan for Berlin (Patron)
Adolf Hitler
Steiner House (Architect)
Adolf Loos
Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Architect)
Alvar Aalto
Villa Mairea (Architect)
Alvar Aalto
Open-Air School (Location)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Zaanstraat Housing Estate (Location)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Entartete Kunst
An exhibit in Munich that exemplifies Nazi attitudes towards art
La Citta Nuova (Architect)
Antonio Sant'Elia
Gropius and Meyer
Architectural exteriors completely devoid of ornamentation
La Citta Nuova (Details)
Architecture of the future Rejects ornamentation Inspired by concrete Skyscraper office building; glazing, light and iron What the future might look like Elevators must be on the outside of the building
Fallingwater (Location)
Bear Run, PA
Palace of the Soviets (Architect)
Boris Lofan
Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Housing Estate) (Architect)
Bruno Taut & Martin Wagner
Larkin Building (Location)
Buffalo, New York
Gamble House (Architect)
Charles & Henry Greene
Eames House (Architect & Patron)
Charles & Ray Eames
Chicago Tribune Tower, Winning (Location)
Chicago, IL
Robie House (Location)
Chicago, IL
Casa Del Fascio (Location)
Como, Italy
Grundtvigs Kirke (Location)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Gamble House (Patron)
David Gamble
International Style
Designers promote an image of simplicity and industrial production.
Bauhaus (PatroN)
Dessau Government
Bauhaus (Location)
Dessau, Germany
De Stijl
Dutch post-WWI movement that believed that their style revealed the underlying structure of existence; art was simplistic and used primary colors and horizontal and vertical lines (invented by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg)
Chicago Tribune Tower Competition (2) (Architect)
Eliel Saarinen
Schocken Department Store (Architect)
Eric Mendelsohn
The Einstein Tower (Architect)
Erich Mendelsohn
Broadacre City (Architect)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fallingwater (Architect)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Johnson Wax Administration Building (Architect)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Barcelona Pavilion (Patron)
German Government
Siedlungen
German public housing projects
Schroder House (Architect)
Gerrit Rietveld
Casa Del Fascio (Architect)
Giuseppe Terragni
Model Factory (Architects)
Gropius and Meyer
Greenbelt, Maryland (Planner)
Hale Walker
Casa Del Fascio (Patron)
Italian GOvernment
Contemporary City (Architect)
Le Corbusier
Dom-ino House (Architect)
Le Corbusier
Vers Une Architecture (Author)
Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye (Architect)
Le Corbusier
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Less is more
Lovell "Health" House (LocatioN)
Los Angeles, CA
Schindler/Chase House (Location)
Los Angeles, CA
Brick Villa Project (Architect)
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Barcelona Pavilion (Architect)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
EUR (Architects)
Marcello Piacentini
Adolf Loos
Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected
Eames House (Location)
Pacific Palisades, CA
Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Location)
Palmio, Finland
Palace of Fine Arts (Location)
Panama Pacific, International Exposition, San Francisco, CA
Gamble House (Location)
Pasadena, CA
AEG Turbine Factory (Architect)
Peter Behrens
Grundtvigs Kirke (Architect)
Peter Jensen Klint
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building (Location)
Philadelphia, PA
Glass House (Architect)
Phillip Johnson
The Einstein Tower (Location)
Potsdam, Germany
Johnson Wax Administration Building (location)
Racine, WI
Constructivism
Remarkable abstract art
Lovell "Health" House (Architect)
Richard Neutra
Schindler/Chase House (Architect)
Rudolf Schindler
Schocken Department Store (Patron)
Schocken Company
Monument to the Third International (Location)
St. Peterburg
Schocken Department Store (Location)
Stuttgart, Germany
Villa Mairea (PAtron)
The Gullichsens
Rockefeller Center (Architects)
Various- Raymond Hood, Supervising Designer
Steiner House (Location)
Vienna
Schroder House (Patron)
Truss Schroder
Greenbelt, Maryland (Patron)
United States Government
Schroder House (Location)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Dymaxion House (Location)
Wichita, Kansas
The Chrysler Building (Architect)
William Van Alen
Usonian
a word used by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to refer to his vision for the landscape of the United States, including the planning of cities and the architecture of buildings. He wanted to offer citizens new, affordable usonian homes unique to America
Ornament & Crime
an essay and lecture by modernist architect Adolf Loos that criticizes ornament in useful objects.
Expressionist Architecture
coincided during same time as Bauhaus - utopian, idealistic and romantic, flowing reinforced concrete, powerful and dynamic forms, expressive buildings