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I N T R O D U C T I O N T O M O D E R N A R T, A R C H I T E C T U R E , A N D D E S I G N ( I M A A D )

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Modern

Modern

Modern

Modernism

Modern

Modernism

Modern

Modernism

Modernity

Modern

Modernism

Modernity

Modern

Modernism

Modernity

Antimodern

Modern

Modernism

Modernity

Antimodern

Modern

Modernism

Modernity

Antimodern

Postmodern

Narrative

Narrative

Progress

Narrative

Progress

Machine

Narrative

Progress

Machine

Automation

Space and Time —> Simultaneity

Space and Time —> Simultaneity

Space and Time —> Simultaneity

Alienation

Alienation

Alienation

Alienation

Alienation

Alienation

Alienation

Creating a Mass Public

Creating a Mass Public

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J A N U A R Y 1 4 E X P O S I T I O N

Joseph Paxton, The Crystal Palace (1851)

Gothic Revival (Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House from the mid-18th century)

Egyptian Revival (Mount Auburn Cemetery from the 1830s)

Moorish Revival

Richardson Romanesque (1870s - Trinity Church, Boston)

And whatever this is.

And whatever this is. (The Octagon Style)

Chatsworth

Joseph Paxton, Great Conservatory at Chatsworth (1836-1841)

First sketch for the Crystal Palace, c. 1850

Victoria amazonica

“…artisans of almost every continental nation, together with workmen of our own country have been

employed…these workmen have labored for months, side by side, with the utmost good feeling, and without

the least display of national jealousy…it shows how completely the ill-will that formerly separated nation

from nation and man from man, is dying out, and how easily those, who have been at one time enemies on the field of battle, may become fast friends in the Palace of

Peace.” Samuel Phillips, Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park

(1851)

The facts:

The facts:

3,476 ft. long

The facts:

3,476 ft. long

(11 football fields)

The facts:

3,476 ft. long

(11 football fields)

843,656 sq. ft.

The facts:

3,476 ft. long

(11 football fields)

843,656 sq. ft.

6,024 iron columns

The facts:

3,476 ft. long

(11 football fields)

843,656 sq. ft.

6,024 iron columns

100,000 objects

The facts:

3,476 ft. long

(11 football fields)

843,656 sq. ft.

6,024 iron columns

100,000 objects

The facts:

3,476 ft. long

(11 football fields)

843,656 sq. ft.

6,024 iron columns

100,000 objects

8 months

Decimus Burton, Palm House, Kew Gardens (1844-1848)

Decimus Burton, Palm House, Kew Gardens (1844-1848)

Decimus Burton, Palm House, Kew Gardens (1844-1848)

Decimus Burton, Palm House, Kew Gardens (1844-1848)

“…an entirely novel order of architecture, producing, by means

of unrivaled mechanical ingenuity, the most marvelous

and beautiful effects.”

- The Times of London, 1852

“Instead of moving from one wall at one end to that to of the other, the eye sweeps along an unending perspective which fades into the horizon…all materiality is blended into the atmosphere.”

- Lothar Bucher, 1851

“All cast and machine work is bad, as work…it is dishonest.”

- John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture (1853)

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, images from Entretiens sur L’architecture (1863)

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, design for a concert hall (1864)

World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)

World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)

World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)

Sophia Hayden Bennett, Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)

Buffalo, 1904Chicago, 1933

November 30, 1936