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villa Savoye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aDT9xesSZc&feature=related Falling Water. Guggenheim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVm-ePTIKR4. Modern Architecture. Modern Architecture?. The massive development of the steel industry led to a swift reduction in price 1867- $166 1870- $107
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villa Savoyehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aDT9xesSZc&feature=relatedFalling Water Guggenheim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVm-ePTIKR4
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
Louis Sullivan Considered “The Father of Modern Architecture” And the creator of the modern skyscraper “Form ever follows function” Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and influence on the PRAIRIE SCHOOL Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894.
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894.
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894
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
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
Van der Rohe Gropius
Mies Van Der RoheSeagram Building, 1958. “LESS is MORE”
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930, Location: Poissy-sur-Seine, France
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930 Short video with commentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aDT9xesSZc&feature=related Other (no commentary) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpj5utbmeKg
The Prairie School can also be placed within Modernist achitecture • .
Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Pennsylvania, 1936
The Guggenheim Museum(The Museum of Non-Objective Art) founded 1939