Modernism is an art movement that first awakened during the mid-eighteenth century and continued into the early twentieth century. The industrial revolution and the effects of world war one influenced many designer’s artwork as they took to designing with a new and unseen approach. By doing so they started to influence society with what could be classed as an abstract art form. Nevertheless, an art form that responded best to a new modern society. Charles Harrison (1997 p.6) describes the term ‘modernism’ as “property or equality of being modern or up-to-date”. This relates well to society during this period as they were trying to rebrand themselves politically, culturally and economically after the war. The movement demonstrates a contrast
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This specific piece of architecture created a lot of discussion within the design world due to its abstract and modernist approach of a living environment. Johnson states (Philip Johnson) (glass house website) The symmetrical outside gave it calmness and organiz-ability of your eye that was very restful to me. Then you step inside and you get into the wild world of asymmetric planes and volumes. He refers to how he has cleverly adapted volumes and space to create a modern living environment. He claims that this specific design took inspiration from the romantic movement and English parks in the eighteenth century. The house undertakes an extensive use of industrial materials like glass and steel, which at the time was uncommon for a household’s foundations. The interior was extremely basic, there were no walls to isolate different rooms. Instead Johnson cleverly placed furniture around the open planed area to create different sections. Johnson (1999) “Pick very few objects and place them exactly”. In using this technique, it conveys a modernist approach by using minimalist features and looking beyond reality. In later years he added to the landscape surrounded the Glass House, adding a pavilion beside the lake, an art gallery set into hillside, a postmodern sculpture gallery and a library that enclosed a tower within its build. This architectural collaboration that Johnson produced could be classes as his most personal as it was his place of residence where he lived until he passed away in
This specific piece of architecture created a lot of discussion within the design world due to its abstract and modernist approach of a living environment. Johnson states (Philip Johnson) (glass house website) The symmetrical outside gave it calmness and organiz-ability of your eye that was very restful to me. Then you step inside and you get into the wild world of asymmetric planes and volumes. He refers to how he has cleverly adapted volumes and space to create a modern living environment. He claims that this specific design took inspiration from the romantic movement and English parks in the eighteenth century. The house undertakes an extensive use of industrial materials like glass and steel, which at the time was uncommon for a household’s foundations. The interior was extremely basic, there were no walls to isolate different rooms. Instead Johnson cleverly placed furniture around the open planed area to create different sections. Johnson (1999) “Pick very few objects and place them exactly”. In using this technique, it conveys a modernist approach by using minimalist features and looking beyond reality. In later years he added to the landscape surrounded the Glass House, adding a pavilion beside the lake, an art gallery set into hillside, a postmodern sculpture gallery and a library that enclosed a tower within its build. This architectural collaboration that Johnson produced could be classes as his most personal as it was his place of residence where he lived until he passed away in