Modernism in Architecture

Old Toronto City Hall, 1899. Romanesque Revival style

Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1885

Flat Iron Building,

N.Y.C., 1902New

technology: steel girder skeletons...

New technology, old fashioned styles…

Antoni Gaudi, 1905

Breaking with the past; new design aesthetics.

Antoni Gaudi, Casa Mila Apartments, 1905 - 07

C.R. Mackintosh; Glasgow School

of Art, 1896 - 1910

Frank Lloyd Wright: Robie House, 1908 - 1910

Frank Lloyd Wright: Robie House, 1908 - 1910

Frank Lloyd Wright: Guggenheim Museum, 1956-59

Bauhaus School of Art and Design Dessau, Germany, 1925

Bauhaus Design

Le Corbusier: The International Style Villa Savoye, 1929

Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye interior, 1929

Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52

Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52

Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52

Philip Johnson: Glass House, 1949

Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, 1950

Mies van der Rohe: sketch of a

glass tower

Mies van der Rohe: TD Centre,

Toronto, 1967

Le Corbusier’s vision of Paris

Nathan Philips Square, Toronto

Government Center, Boston

Oscar Niemeyer : Brazilia

Oscar Niemeyer : Brazilia

Jane Jacobs said: Modernism didn’t work.