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 Rights: © 2007 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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The Guggenheim Museum (The Museum of Non-Objective Art) founded 1939
Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum
Bauhaus German 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
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Kubus stacking containers, ca Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Kubus stacking containers, ca. 1938 Glass, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: With Rays, 1959 Oil on Masonite, 48 1/8 x 48 1/8 in. Wassily Kandinsky, Black Frame, 1922 Marcel Breuer "Wassily" chair, 1925, chrome-plated steel, canvas upholstery
Van der Rohe Gropius
Mies Van Der Rohe German Pavilion, 1929. BAUHAUS
Mies Van Der Rohe Barcelona Chair, 1929.
Mies Van Der Rohe Seagram Building, 1958 “LESS is MORE”
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930, Location: Poissy-sur-Seine, France Rights: © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930 Rights: © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdRd-O83yB0 38