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villa Savoye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aDT9xesSZc&feature=related Falling Water. Guggenheim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVm-ePTIKR4. Modern Architecture. Modern Architecture?. The massive development of the steel industry led to a swift reduction in price 1867- $166 1870- $107 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
villa Savoyehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6aDT9xesSZc&feature=related
Falling Water
Guggenheimhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=JVm-ePTIKR4
Modern Architecture
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 SullivanConsidered
“The Father of Modern Architecture”
And the creator of the modern skyscraper
“Form ever follows function”
Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and influence on the PRAIRIE SCHOOL
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
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 Rohe
Gropius
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
Other (no commentary) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpj5utbmeKg
Short video with commentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6aDT9xesSZc&feature=related
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The Prairie School
can also be placed within Modernist achitecture
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, 1937.