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30 Cards in this Set
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Marshall Field Wholesale Store Richardson -textured monochromatic masonry -no ornament -bearing walls -free standing walls |
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Carson, Pirie, Scott, and Company Building Sullivan and Burnham -new and old styles of architecture -broad and open display spaces (approach to consumerism and economics) -windows to attract customers -minimal steel exoskeleton |
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Hotel Tassel Horta -aesthetic movement -first true art nouveau building -partial glass ceiling used for first time -organic, biomorphic shapes... asymmetrical and flowy |
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Paris Metro Guimard -biomorphic tendrils on columns -organic colors and shapes/movements -paleontology of time influenced prehistoric design -spooky because you are descending into the underground... "entrance into the underworld" |
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Sagrada Familia Gaudi -temple of holy family -eclecticism (art nouveau, cubism, Gothicism) -made of local sandstone -zoomorphic forms
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Casa Mila Gaudi -spiritual interest in design of building -free form masses -cast stone facade -inspiration came from mountains he experiences when younger during cholera epidemic |
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Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh -arts and crafts movement -eclectic unity -volumetic, rectilinear masses -art nouveau's motifs |
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Palais Stoclet Hoffman -art deco stepped tower -ordered geometry -exterior/interior mirroring -marble facade |
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Steiner House Loos -rectilinear -rejection of art nouveau -importance and emphasis on simplicity -beauty in form, not ornament |
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Brooklyn Bridge John and Washington Roebling -eclecticism -first steel-wire suspension bridge -gothic arch structures -massive volumetric pilasters from Egyptian and Roman facade designs |
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AEG Turbine Factory Behrens -revolutionary factory design for workers -cathedral of light promoted a better work environment for workers... increased productivity and efficiency -first corporate identity -greek temple of industry
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Fagus Factory Gropius -rectilinear -transparency and dissolving walls with glass and windows -new model for work place and society -promoted better work environment which led to productivity and efficiency |
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Glass Pavilion Taut -formally organized -circular concrete base with axial stair -Taut's walk-in prism |
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Dom-ino House |
open floor plan designed by LeCorbu, idea to manufacture in series, prototype for mass production of housing, became foundation in architecture for decades |
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Antonio Sant'Elia |
famous futurist architect, sought a new urban imagery... a new city, futurist architecture depends solely on the use and original arrangement of raw or violently colored materials |
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Paul Scheerbart and his influence |
revealed architectural vision in writings; influenced German expressionist Bruno Taut who formed a group that wanted to use art to improve society |
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Futurism |
opposition to everything historical, dull, and outdated; argued for new masculine order of war with speed and anger; love of danger; hatred for museums, libraries, etc. |
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La Citta Nuova Sant'Elia -idea of a new futuristic city -new industrialism -love for the machine -multi-levels -progressive roadways |
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Ideas contributing to modernism |
volume and space, space enclosed by thin surfaces regularity of line, dependence on intrinsic elegance of materials as opposed to artificial ornamentation |
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DeStijl Movement |
emerged in response to aftermath of WWI, art as a social and spiritual redemption, search for universal and not individual, geometric forms, |
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Schroder House Rietveld -influenced by Destijl movement and Piet Mondrian -open space plan with no dividing walls -clean materials and simple lines, not ornamenal -dynamic equilibrium |
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Five points of architecture |
ribboned windows, free facade, free floor plan, pilotis, roof garden |
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Gropius and Bauhaus education |
art school in Germany that combined fine arts and arts and crafts, founded on idea of "total" work of art in which all arts can be combined together |
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German Expressionism |
movement formed by Franz Marc and Kandinsky, interest in abstract forms and prismatic colors, spiritual value that counteracted with materialism of period, moving beyond realist representation |
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Einstein Tower Mendelsohn -german expressionism -first experimental use of concrete for curvilinear forms -observatory -mystical cosmic emotional contruct |
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Glass Skyscraper Model Mies van der Rohe -model for the present -desire for transparency -pattern for cantilevered floors and inset supports -3 irregular glass towers flow from central court with lobby |
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Monument to the Third International Tatlin -full scale model for 3rd International in Moscow -represented three aspects of new state -was to be 1300 feet tall -each structure was to house people |
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Maison de Verre Charreau -designed against the traditional housing that everyone was reverting back to during this time -wanted new architecture incorporating mostly glass compared to traditional housing material -3 story living room, grids filled with glass block -lighting through glass made lighting on interior dramatic... never seen before |
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Barcelona Pavilion Mies van der Rohe -dismantled after exhibition, replica was built where it once stood -all furniture designed by Mies van der Rohe -8 cruciform vertical columns support horizontal roof slab -roof slab is independent of vertical walls -separation between enclosure and structure -pool is lined with black glass -De Stijl influence on minimal and strict lines |
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Villa Savoye Le Corbusier -incorporates LeCorbu's five points of architecture -originally designed as a country retreat for the Savoye family -designed with the views and orientation of the sun in mind -plan for house was set out using golden ratio |
