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Modern Architecture 1910s – 1960s
Modern Architecture? The massive development of the steel industry led to a swift reduction in price
1867- $166
1870- $107
1875- $69
1880- $68
1885- $29
1890- $32
1895- $32
Louis Sullivan
the father of modern architecture
and
the creator of the modern skyscraper
“Form ever follows function”
Louis Sullivan,
The Guaranty (Prudential Building),
Buffalo, NY, 1894.
Louis Sullivan,
The Guaranty
(Prudential Building),
Buffalo, NY, 1894.
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894
Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright
Influenced the PRAIRIE SCHOOL
Louis Sullivan,
The Guaranty (Prudential Building),
Buffalo, NY, 1894.
.
Remember the Prairie School?
Modernist architecture?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, Darwin D. Martin House, 1904.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1906.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House
(Fallingwater), Pennsylvania, 1936
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZ0x5Qkgzg
The Guggenheim Museum(The Museum of Non-Objective Art)
founded 1939
Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum
BauhausGerman style movement from 1919-1933
All of the Bauhaus directors were architects. (“The ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building”)
•Walter Gropius, founder and director
•Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, last director
Bauhaus Logo
Marcel Breuer "Wassily" chair, 1925, chrome-plated steel, canvas upholstery
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Kubus stacking containers, ca. 1938Glass, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: With Rays, 1959Oil on Masonite, 48 1/8 x 48 1/8 in.Wassily Kandinsky, Black Frame,
1922
Van der RoheGropius
Mies Van Der RoheGerman Pavilion, 1929. BAUHAUS
Mies Van Der RoheBarcelona Chair, 1929.
Mies Van Der RoheSeagram Building, 1958
“LESS is MORE”
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930, Location: Poissy-sur-Seine, France
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdRd-O83yB0