SAID HTC Mid Term

Judendstil

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Ornament and Crime

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Perspective

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The Craftsman

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Five Points of Architecture

1.pilotis 2.open floor plan 3.free faceade 4.horizontal windows 5.roof garden

Futurism

1910.A movement in modern art that grew out of cubism. Artists used implied motion by shifting planes and having multiple viewpoints of the subject. They strived to show mechanical as well as natural motion and speed. The beginning of the machine age is what inspired these artists. Frank Stella and Giacomo Balla were futurists.

Romanticism

19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason

The Bauhaus

A German interdisciplinary school of fine and applied arts that brought together many leading modern architects, designers, and theatrical innovators.

raft foundation

A large footing under an entire building, which distributes the building load over the entire area. It is also known as a 'mat foundation'.

Enlightenment

A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.

Industrial Revolution

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

Cubism

A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, especially cubes

axial symmetry

A type of transformation that reflects a figure through a line

Bessemer Process

A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities.

purism

An early-20th-century art movement that embraced the "machine esthetic" and sought purity of form in the clean functional lines of industrial machinery.

Art Nouveau style

(1890-1914) A highly decorative style that was applied to painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, jewelry, fabrics, and all types of materials used for interior and exterior design. (Image: The Kiss (Lovers), oil and gold leaf on canvas, 1907-1908. Gustav Klimt)

A Grammar of Ornament

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Contrasts

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De Stjil

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Expositions Universelles

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Deutsche Werkbund

German Association of Craftsmen, -German movement - state sponsored effort to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass production techniques

World's Columbian Exposition

Held in Chicago, Americans saw this World's Fair as their opportunity to claim a place among the world's most "civilized" societies, by which they meant the countries of western Europe. The Fair honored art, architecture, and science, and its promoters built a mini-city in which to host the fair that reflected all the ideals of city planning popular at the time. For many, this was the high point of the "City Beautiful" movement.

Vers une Architecture

Le Corbusier (1923) -introduces purism manifesto -straight lines vs. curvlinear lines -organic vs. rational - "Towards a New Architecture", laid out laws to modern architecture, attacked current architecture.

Ecole des Beaux-Arts

Refers to a number of influential art schools in France, trained many of the great European artists; Beaux Arts style was modeled on classical "antiquities", preserving these idealized forms and passing the style on to future generations.

Vienna Secession

This was exclusively Austrian Art Nouveau occurring only in Vienna. The leaders, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Olbrich. In this style they used the squares or circles rather than flowing curves. The dominant motif was vertical.

Arts and Crafts Movement

a social and artistic movement of the second half of the 19th cent. Emphasizing a return to handwork, skilled craftsmanship, and attention to design in the decorative arts, from the mechanization and mass production of the Industrial Revolution

Prairie Style

a style of housing designed by Frank Lloyd Wright with strong horizontal design that uses wood, stone, and materials found in the natural environment.

Expressionism

a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

Wasmuth Portfolio

a two-volume folio of 100 lithographs of the work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright

Constructivism

an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be

Wiener Werkstatte

design movement centered in Vienna that was heavily influenced by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright

Dom-ino system

developed by Le Corbusier, thin reinforced concrete columns supporting reinforced concrete slabs, allowing for curtain walls, the columns and floor functioned as a prefabricated system without walls or partitions which could be added where needed, Housing Estate at Pessac

Chicago Window

one large, fixed pane window flanked by narrow, double-hung sash windows for ventilation

Seven Lamps of Architecture

sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, obedience John Ruskin

polychromy

the art of painting in several colors, especially as applied to ancient pottery, sculpture, and architecture.

Eclecticism

the process of making your own system by borrowing from two or more other systems