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Urbanization As Seen Through Late 19c - Early 20c Architecture

Urbanization As Seen Through Late 19c - Early 20c Architecture. With Help from Susan M. Pojer. Megalopolis. Mass Transit. Magnet for economic and social opportunities. Pronounced class distinctions. - Inner & outer core New frontier of opportunity for women.

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Urbanization As Seen Through Late 19c - Early 20c Architecture

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  1. Urbanization As Seen Through Late 19c - Early 20c Architecture With Help from Susan M. Pojer

  2. Megalopolis. Mass Transit. Magnet for economic and social opportunities. Pronounced class distinctions. - Inner & outer core New frontier of opportunity for women. Squalid living conditions for many. Political machines. Ethnic neighborhoods. Characteristics of UrbanizationDuring the Gilded Age

  3. NewUse ofSpace NewClassDiversity NewArchitectural Style New Energy NewSymbols ofChange &Progress The City as aNew “Frontier?” New Culture(“Melting Pot”) Make a NewStart New Form ofClassic “RuggedIndividualism” New Levels of Crime, Violence, &Corruption

  4. CHICAGO: "The Windy City"

  5. William Le Baron Jenney • 1832 – 1907 • “Father of the ModernSkyscraper”

  6. W. Le Baron Jenney: CentralY.M.C.A., Chicago, 1891

  7. Louis Sullivan • 1856 – 1924 • The ChicagoSchool ofArchitecture • Form followsfunction!

  8. Louis Sullivan: Bayard Bldg., NYC, 1897

  9. Louis Sullivan: Carson, Pirie, Scott Dept. Store, Chicago, 1899

  10. Frank Lloyd Wright • 1869 – 1959 • “Prairie House”School of Architecture • “OrganicArchitecture” • Function follows form!

  11. Frank Lloyd Wright:Allen-Lamb House, 1915

  12. Frank Lloyd Wright:“Falling Waters”, 1936

  13. F. L. Wright Glass Screens Prairie wheat patterns.

  14. Frank Lloyd Wright:Guggenheim Museum, NYC - 1959

  15. NEW YORK CITY: "Gotham"

  16. The style was less innovative thanin Chicago. NYC was the source of the capital for Chicago. Most major business firms had their headquarters in NYC  their bldgs. became “logos” for their companies. NYC buildings and skyscrapers were taller than in Chicago. New York City Architectural Style: 1870s-1910s

  17. Western Union Bldg,. NYC - 1875

  18. ManhattanLifeInsurance Bldg.NYC - 1893

  19. SingerBuilding NYC - 1902

  20. Woolworth Bldg.NYC - 1911

  21. FlatironBuilding NYC – 1902 D. H. Burnham

  22. Grand Central Station, 1913

  23. St. Patrick’s Cathedral

  24. John A. Roebling:The Brooklyn Bridge, 1883

  25. John A. Roebling:The Brooklyn Bridge, 1913

  26. Statue of Liberty, 1876(Frederic Auguste Bartholdi)

  27. “Dumbell “ Tenement

  28. “Dumbell “ Tenement, NYC

  29. Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lived(1890)

  30. Tenement Slum Living

  31. Lodgers Huddled Together

  32. Tenement Slum Living

  33. Struggling Immigrant Families

  34. Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”

  35. Hester Street – Jewish Section

  36. 1900RoshHashanahGreetingCard

  37. Pell St. - Chinatown, NYC

  38. Urban Growth: 1870 - 1900

  39. Protests in Urban Sweatshops - Shirtwaist Companies

  40. Average Shirtwaist Worker’s Week

  41. Womens’ Trade Union League

  42. Women Voting for a Strike!

  43. Local 25 with Socialist Paper, The Call

  44. Public Fear of Unions/Anarchists

  45. Arresting the Girl Strikersfor Picketing

  46. Scabs Hired

  47. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911

  48. “The Shirtwaist Kings”Max Blanck and Isaac Harris

  49. Triangle Shirtwaist FactoryAsch Building, 8th and 10th Floors

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