04/07 Ornament is Crime

Vinicio Paladini

"The Proletariat" Created a lot of artworks that merged machine and man

Marcel Bruer

"nature and architecture are two different things"

Bauhaus

"the house for building" -Funded by industrialists Bauhaus remained in Weimar from 1919-1923, and then moved around Germany during Nazi occupation before it was forced to close

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret

(architect) Swiss architect active in France; one of the most influential architects and theorists of the 20th century; Villa Savoye, Poissy; United Habitation, Marseille; Pilgrimage Church, Ronchamp

Machine man

= proletariat The idea of the man and machine merger is an important concept during the 1920s

Minamilism

Adolf Loos "Ornament is crime"

Ornament is crime

Adolf Loos -Minimalism -Something that is not needed, no embellishment is needed, waste of money and time and energy

Moholy-Nagy

Artist known for light modulators

Frank Lloyd Wright

Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs. -True love was japanese architecture -Embraced modern materials

Avant Garde/Futurist Architecture

Futurists moved into the field of avant garde architecture around

kinetic sculpture

Kinetic sculpture that incorporates the use of light as a new material for sculpture

"Less is more"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect, minimalism, used modern materials -You can make more by eliminating elements

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Professor and architect at Bauhaus -Seagram Building -Less is more Modern material

Johannes Itten

Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus -taught the first color theory class

Machine art in the 1920s

The idea that the machine is something that envelopes/intrigues the human being → humans becoming slaves to machines(?), crashing the human identity

Technology in 20s

Throughout the 20s, a lot of the artists end up being sucked into the modern era and becoming designers, engineers, people that think they can use modern machines to change the world.

Adolf Loos

Villa Muller Published the "ornament is crime" article -Simplicity is a manifesto -Limited amount of colors and designs

The Elements of Color

What differentiates and defines lines, shapes, forms, and space. Even black and white images have a huge number of different shades of gray.

Antonio Sant'Elia

Wrote *The Manifesto of Futurist Architecture* called for construction based on technology and science and for design that addressed the unique demands of modern life. He declared decoration (ornament)to be absurd and used dynamic diagonal and elliptic lines because their emotional power was greater than horizontals and verticals.

Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)

a Swiss - born painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gentaly humorous works containg allusions to dreams, music, and poetry. -Shows successful use of warm and cool colors, primary colors, and the overall language of colors

Reinforced Concrete architecture

building out of Reinforced Concrete can support a large amount of weight -skeleton of steel or iron -takes on a natural shape too

LOEB

sustained the idea of limiting the power of politicians and democracy, and substituting it with technocrats

concept of "Robo"

taken from the czech word "robota" which means "a hard worker"