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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