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Modern Architecture 1910s – 1960s

Discover the evolution of modern architecture from the 1910s to the 1960s with key figures like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Explore iconic buildings, principles such as "Form follows function," and the influence of the Bauhaus movement.

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Modern Architecture 1910s – 1960s

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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.

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

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

  7. Remember the Prairie School? Modernist architecture? .

  8. Frank Lloyd Wright

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

  10. Frank Lloyd Wright,Robie House, 1906.

  11. Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Pennsylvania, 1936

  12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZ0x5Qkgzg

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

  14. Frank Lloyd Wright,Guggenheim Museum

  15. 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

  16. Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Kubus stacking containers, ca. 1938Glass, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: With Rays, 1959Oil 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

  17. Van der Rohe Gropius

  18. Mies Van Der RoheGerman Pavilion, 1929. BAUHAUS

  19. Mies Van Der RoheBarcelona Chair, 1929.

  20. Mies Van Der RoheSeagram Building, 1958 “LESS is MORE”

  21. Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930, Location: Poissy-sur-Seine, France

  22. Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdRd-O83yB0

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