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1 Modern Architecture 1910s – 1960s

2 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

3 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.

4 Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894.

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6 Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894

7 Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright
Influenced the PRAIRIE SCHOOL Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894.

8 Remember the Prairie School? Modernist architecture?
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9 Frank Lloyd Wright

10 Frank Lloyd Wright, Darwin D. Martin House, 1904.

11 Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1906.

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13 Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Pennsylvania, 1936
Rights: © 2007 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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24 The Guggenheim Museum (The Museum of Non-Objective Art) founded 1939

25 Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum

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27 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

28 Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Kubus stacking containers, ca
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Kubus stacking containers, ca 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

29 Van der Rohe Gropius

30 Mies Van Der Rohe German Pavilion, 1929. BAUHAUS

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32 Mies Van Der Rohe Barcelona Chair, 1929.

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35 Mies Van Der Rohe Seagram Building, 1958
“LESS is MORE”

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37 Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss,
Villa Savoye, , Location: Poissy-sur-Seine, France Rights: © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC

38 Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930
Rights: © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC 38

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