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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
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
