HOWA III Test 2
Exhibitions as a medium for the introduction/exchange of architectural ideas
exibitions trabel to see greatesst new pheromenon this perid shows photographs drawings & models
curtain wall
A curtain wall system is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, utilized only to keep the weather out and the occupants in. Since the curtain wall is non-structural, it can be made of lightweight materials, thereby reducing construction costs.
Josef Hoffmann
Modern design; art nouveau; designed the Prague chair; member of Vienna Secession and founding member of its offshoot, the Wiener Werkstatte (Vienna Workshop)
William LeBaron Jenney
-1832-1907 -Utilizes metal frame -Chicago architect -studied in paris -Most of his work is in Chicago
Chicago School
-Huge impact on Modernism -The school pioneers a structural rationalism that expresses the frame -most chicago school architects were trained under William La Baron Jennie
Otto Wagner
-Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche -"Modern Architecture since 1895"
Otto Wagner, Moderne Architektur
-It is a book by Otto Wagner -It talks about 19th habit of employing previous historical styles -"We do not walk around in the costume of Louis XIV."
Adolf Loos, "Potemkin's Town"
-It was a general Russian -He captured crimea -Potemkin constructed fake villages to impress the queen -Potemkin Village was a false fr
Vienna Secession
-It was a group who decide to secede from the official art institution -They create the union of Austrian Artists -Founded in 1897
Gebrüder Thonet furniture makers
-Thonet Beutweed chairs no. 1 & no. 18 -iconic chair design in 1850-vienna
Plan for the expansion of vienna
1860
Wanwright building
Alder & Sullivan, St Louis, MO, 1890-92
Wiener Werkstätte
An association of Vienna-based visual artists, craftspeople, and designers established in 1903 around the idea that fashionable art, design, furniture, and household goods should be accessible to everyone.
Mackintosh's furniture and its influence
Became part of pop culture and where influential
Monadnock Building
Burnham and Root, Chicago, 1890-91; South Addition by Holabird & Roche 1893
Willow Tea Rooms
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1903-04
The Hill House
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Helensburgh, Scotland, 1902-04
Reliance Building
Daniel Burnham and Charles Atwood, Chicago, 1894-95
Okan for World's columbian exposition
Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted, Chicago, 1893
The rookery
Daniel H Burnham and John Welborn Root (Burnham & Root) Chicago, 1886-87; Interior remodeled by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1905-07
Larkin Building
Frank Lloyd Wright, Buffalo, NY, 1902-06 (demolished 1950)
Home and studio
Frank Lloyd Wright, Oak Park ,IL, 1889, Extended 1895,1898
Unity Temple
Frank Lloyd Wright, Oak Park IL, 1905-1908
Imperial Hotel
Frank Lloyd Wright, Tokyo, Japan, 1916-22 (demolished 1968)
Federick Robie House
Frank lloyed wright, Hyde park, Chicago IL, 1908-10
Beethoven Frieze
Gustav Klimt, Fourteenth Secession Exhibition, Vienna,1902
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Approach/Significance
He is the most influential. restrained approch to art nouveau. diffrent impact will still have curves and some long lines but far more restrained
Palais Stoclet
Josef Hoffmann, Brussels, Belgium, 1905-11
Seccession House
Joseph Maria Olbrich, Fiedrichstrasse, Vienna, 1898-99
open plan
Just as the name suggests, a home with this type of layout has one or more large, open rooms that function as multiple rooms within a single living space. The most common is a "great room" that combines the kitchen, dining room, and living room in one shared space.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Morality tale and that what is needed is the Ubermensch (u has ..), Otto Wagner, Hofpavillon Hietzing, Vienna, ca. 1900, Made for royal family. Baroque, Germanic style. Restrictive use of iron around the building. Jugendstil
Majolica House
Otto Wagner, 40 Linke Wienzeile, Vienna, 1898-99
Postparkasse (Austrian Postal Savings Bank)
Otto Wagner, Vienna 1904-06
Die Zeit Telegraph Station
Otto Wagner, Vienna, 1902 (Destroyed)
Kirche am Steinhof (Church of Saint Leopold am Stinhof)
Otto Wagner, Vienna, 1902-04
karlsplatz stadbahn
Otto wagner, Vienna, 1898
Taliesin
Taliesin, sometimes known as Taliesin East, Taliesin Spring Green, or Taliesin North after 1937, was the estate of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Chicago Fire and rebuilding of Chicago
The "Great Rebuilding" was the effort to construct a new, urban center. Big businesses, innovative buildings, and a new style of architecture were the results. ... The fire destroyed 17,500 buildings and 73 miles of street. Ninety thousand people—one in three Chicago residents—were left homeless by the fire.
Turin Exposition of 1902
The Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna (English: First International Exposition of Modern Decorative Arts), held in Turin, Italy in 1902 (opened 10 May), was a world arts exhibition that was important in spreading the popularity of Art Nouveau design, especially to Italy.
Ringstrasse
The Ringstrasse (German: Ringstraße, lit. ring road) is a circular grand boulevard that serves as a ring road around the historic Innere Stadt (Inner Town) district of Vienna, Austria.
Wasmuth Portfolio
The Wasmuth portfolio is a two-volume folio of 100 lithographs of the work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Titled Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright, it was published in Germany in 1911 by the Berlin publisher Ernst Wasmuth, with an accompanying monograph by Wright.
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
The World's Columbian Exposition was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage Columbus took to the New World.
Gottfried Semper's Four Elements of Architecture and relationship to Otto Wagner's work
The four elements of architectrue is a book by the german architect Gottfried Semper. Published in 1851, it is an attempt to explain the orgins of architectrue through the lens of anthropology. the book divides architecture into four distinct elements: the hearth, the roof, the enclosure and the mound
structural rationalism
Viollet-le-Duc rejected the concept of an ideal architecture and instead saw architecture as a rational construction approach defined by the materials and purpose of the structure.
Home insurance building
William Le Baron Jenney, Chicago IL, 1884-1885 (demolished 1929)
Frank Lloyd Wright
an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.
Prairie Style
architecture is a style of building that believes a structure should reflect and pay homage to the surrounding environment. This movement, also known as Prarie School, is similar to the Arts and Crafts movement and is known as the first distinctly American architectural style
Chicago window
is a large fixed glass panel flanked by two narrower sashes of the same height, filling a structural bay. The large pane is a single panel of plate glass, and the flanking elements are vertical double-hung sash windows with no dividing muntins.
Louis Sullivan, "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered"
skyscraper???
Competion entry of a House for an Art lover
sponsored by alexander koch and his journla innedekoration, 1901
Übermensch
the ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, originally described by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-85).
Hendrik Petrus Berlage
was a prominent Dutch architect
Louis Sullivan
was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.
Wendingen
was an architecture and art magazine that appeared from 1918 to 1932. It was a monthly publication aimed at architects and interior designers. The booklet was published by Amsterdam publisher Hooge Brug and by the Santpoort publisher C.A.
