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What kind of house is the Meyer May house? What did FLW integrate in this house? |
Prairie Style, Color, Space, Form - horizontal lines - hides entrance - blends with prairie |
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What were the three key colors in FLW's Meyer May house? |
golden oak, light green, burnt orange |
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what were FLW's primary inspirations? |
Tibet's Potala Palace, the statue "Winged Victory of the Samothrace", Aphrodite of Milos, and Japanese influences |
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Why did FLW admire the Dalai Lamas Potala Palace so much? |
he admired the monumentality and oneness that they buildings had |
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What were the characteristics of Japanese designs that influenced FLW? |
Asymmetry, Diagonal, action vs. inaction, prints like hiroshige and hokusai |
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what is FLW's principle of oneness? |
- the building is an extension of the environment - interior is extension of the building - interior of a house should include all objects in the oneness vision - reflects harmony, freedom, and calm - all parts are integrated |
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characteristics of the interior of the FLW house |
dissolves the ceiling, connects earth and sky, fireplace is the core (symbolic heart of the home), built-ins unify interior |
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how did FLW use Mayan inspirations in his designs? |
he was inspired by the tree of life that symbolizes birth growth and death. |
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FLW's Meyer May house |
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Potala Palace, Tibet |
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Winged Victory of Samothrace |
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Aphrodite of Milos |
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Hiroshige and hokusai wave |
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Hollyhock House, FLW |
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The Storer House, FLW 1923, CA -precast concrete plays with negative and positive space and the shadow and texture -plays with lighting |
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Taliesin West, AZ 1937-59 -designed to be an experience in color light and time -the angularity responds to terrain |
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Taliesin East, Spring Green WI 1911 |
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Falling Water, PA 1935 -blends the building to the landscape -vertical and horizontal contrast -connecting earth to design |
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Falling Water Dining chair |
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Characteristics of Art Deco |
-boldly patterned wall coverings, no paintings -angularity and two dimensionality -tapered legs -smooth surfaces -exotic motifs -expensive materials -geometric motifs |
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influences of Art Deco |
-Neoclassicism -Non-western cultures, egypt, africa, orient -picasso, matisse -craftsmanship and machine made materials integrated |
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Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann |
-leading french art deco designer -doesn't rely on paintings -colorblocking to differentiate spaces - murals on walls -contrasting colors |
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Emile Jacques Ruhlmann interior rendering |
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Eileen Gray |
part of the french moderne movement |
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Eileen Gray's Serpent Chair 1912 Art Deco -flashy and exotic |
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eileen grays "smoking table" 1929 french moderne -simple, less decorative |
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eileen gray's Transat Chair 1927 -chromed steel fasteners -laquered wood -adjustable headrest |
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how was Art Deco different in America? |
-state of isolation meant more conservative furniture -art deco design in america expressed it's aspirations -more inspiration from the industrial era -women worked outside the home |
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The Chrysler Building NY 1928-30 -uses geometric lotus design -emphasizes progress |
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Empire State Building, NY 1930 |
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Pantages Theater, Hollywood, 1929 |
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Blue Chair by Eliel Saarinen 1929 -plays with positive and negative space |
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Streamlinging/American Moderne |
-emphasis on horizontal (instead of vertical like art deco) -smoothness -designers are famous -inspiration comes from machines -optimism for the future |
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example of streamlining in residential architecture -Miami Beach |
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Radio City Music hall designed by Donald Deskey 1932 clean, smooth lines mirrors chromium plated steel tubular aluminum veneers glass laquer |
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Skyscraper bookcase by Paul Fankyl -wanted to do something distinctively american so he build the skyscraper bookcase - 1928 |
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Modern Movement Characteristics |
-new machine aesthetics -mass production -rationalization and standardization -new materials (glass, tubular aluminum) -spacious, open plans |
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Adolf Loos |
influential austrian architect wanted simplicity and functionality in design wrote "ornament and crime" |
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Villa Muller section - Adolf Loos Raumplan (plan of volumes) -system of continuous merging spaces |
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Villa Muller exterior -more about interior than exterior |
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Loos Chaise Lounge -adapted from Hampton & Son's |
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De Stijl - dutch movement |
movement about simplicity - straight lines - right angles - pure primary colors -dedicated to abstraction |
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Rietvelds Schroder house 1924 -built in furniture merges with wall -flexible plan -floor colors denote spaces
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Gerrit Rietvelds Red and Blue chair - 1917 primary colors emphasize intersecting rectangular planes and asymmetry |
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Rietvelds Schroder table - 1923 -primary colors emphasize intersecting planes -asymmetrical balance |
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The Bauhaus principles |
-good design for the masses -absence of ornament -form follows function founded by walter gropius in 1919 |
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Gropius armchair 1923 "F51" |
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Marcel Breuer Wassily Chair 1925 -Designed to emphasize rectangular shapes and solid and voidrelationships. -Tubular steel constructionBack, arms, and seat are flat, floating planes of leather |
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Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe's German Pavillion for the Barcelona exhibition of 1929 "less is more" - Intersecting walls allow forfree circulation Intentionally places glasswall and marble at rightangles to direct movement. |
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Le Corbusier's 5 points of architecture |
1) The building should be supported above ground level by pilotis (free-standing structural piers or reinforced concrete) 2) The interior should use a free plan, unrestricted by the need for supporting walls. 3) There should be a roof terrace. 4) The windows should be large, and form a continuous element of the exterior wall; and 5) The façade should consists of one smooth surface. |
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Villa Savoye - Le Corb |
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Postwar Modernism influences |
US becomes major industrial power and produces half the worlds good like cars -economy booms with more jobs and higher standard of living |
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characteristics of the modern movement |
-Inspired by new machine aesthetics - stripped awayunnecessary ornamentation -Mass production Rationalization and standardization -New materials and new methods of construction Spacious, functional, open plan environments |
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Farnsworth House Ludwig Mies Vander Rohe 1941 international style |
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Phillip Johnsons Glass House 1949 simple cube glass curtain windows for full integration of nature and interior |
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trends in furniture design in the modern movement |
geometric to organic machine aesthetics and international style light and scale and visual weight |
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KNOLL |
Hans Knoll and Florence Schust are married.The Hans G. Knoll Furniture Company becomes Knoll Associates, signaling thebeginning of a new era of ambition and growth. |
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HERMAN MILLER |
-charles and ray eames |
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Charles and Ray Eames' house -used prefabricated and standardized parts |
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Harry Bertoia's Diamond chair 1952 |
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Eero Saarinen - TWA terminal, NY, JFK – 1962 -example of organic modern |
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Eero Saarinen’spedestal chair - 1955 |
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Eero Saarinen’s Womb chair- 1946 |
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Eero Saarinen’s Womb chair- 1946 |
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Verner Panton’s Tongue Chair- 1967 |
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Typifying the optimistic,consumer-oriented popculture of the 1960' s Eero Aarnio’s Ball chair – 1962(Finland) |
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Scandinavian Design |
preserves the look of handicraft while adopting the modern manufacturing methods |
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Scandinavian Design characteristics |
-Simplicity, human scale, modesty,practicality and excellent craftsmanship -middle ground betweentraditional revivals and the modernaesthetic -Drew inspiration from the landscape - Important characteristic is unity, textureand light. - Blonde maple is the major element.Silver copper, brass and chromeaccented some pieces
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FINN JUHL’S EASY CHAIR (1945) -Use of wood andtraditional materials,like fabric Simple linesLimited ornamentation Typically, ergonomicallycorrect! |
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Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea -Less obsessed with furthering amachine aesthetic • designs are the softerside of Modern • His work avoided the opprobriumthat Gropius and Mies and LeCorbusier sometime garnered • Uses natural materials • Plays with scale • Plays with light and texture • Organic in plan and section |
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Alvar Aalto Saynatsalo Town Hall 1948 |
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Alvar Aalto’s Paimiochair (1931) -angle of back helps patients with tuberculosis breathe easier |
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Bruno Matthsson |
focused on comfort -grasshopper chair and Eva chair |
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Mathsson’s Miranda chair - 1942 |
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Danish Design |
Danish design’s differentiationfrom the Bauhaus/Internationalstyle: A more organic concept of form A deep respect for function, and A genuine interest in the use – Things had to be simple – The experience should notonly be visual, but alsoappeal to our mind and allour senses, and – Ergonomics |
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essence of danish design |
Design criteria: Aesthetic value Simplicity User friendly Cost and environmentallyconscious |
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ARNE JACOBSEN’S SEVEN CHAIR - 1956 |
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Post Modernism Characteristics |
postmodern Inspired by new machine aesthetics - strippedunnecessary ornamentation Rationalization and standardization - New materials and new methods of construction Influences and forces Scandinavian - more human centered |
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Social forces for post modernism |
postmodern Inflation Unemployment Collapse of post-warbuilding boom Anti war movement andexit of US forces fromVietnam Fight for inequality Political scandals, etc,etc... |
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Phillip Johnson |
Post Modern designer -designed the glass house and the at&t tower |
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Richard Meyer |
postmodern Meier’s international body of work isacclaimed for its abstraction, formal clarity,and uncompromising whiteness. 1934 |
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Saltzman House 1969 Designed by Richard Meyer |
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Richard Meyer furniture •Soften and humanize the strict geometry of the International Style •The corners of table tops and the back of the chair are rounded. •Hard Maple which is black lacquered or white hand rubbed finish. •The Richard Meier Collection for Strada |
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Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris(Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano) |
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postmodern Lloyds of London- (Richard Rogers b. 1933) |
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ROBERT VENTURI & DENISE SCOTT BROWN |
attacked modern architectures ideals -said "less is a bore" - Venturi argued that a building derivesmeaning from its context, anddifferent contexts require differentforms of architectural expression |
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Venturi's gothic revival chair |
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Deconstructionism |
- Traditional building components arere-arranged to form a new type ofwhole. - During the design stage, fragments ofbuildings are moved around inunpredictable ways. - The resulting buildings are complex,unconventional, and shun away theright angle. |
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Frank Gehry |
deconstructivist |
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Philippe Starck |
ghost chair divano bubble club |
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Zaha Hadid |
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