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20 th Century. Architecture (Part I). Late 19 th -Century. 1. Cast Iron: Paxton Eiffel 2. Sullivan and the skyscraper. Late 19 th -Century. Marked by new structural methods Utilitarian rather than ornamental
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20th Century Architecture (Part I)
Late 19th-Century • 1. Cast Iron: Paxton Eiffel • 2. Sullivan and the skyscraper
Late 19th-Century • Marked by new structural methods • Utilitarian rather than ornamental • steel framework and often glass walls replace traditionally masonry designs
Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889
Louis Henry Sullivan • The Chicago School • “Form follows function”: The style was the result of the natural use of new materials and of the function of their buildings. • The birth of modern architecture
Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler: Wainwright Building, St. Louis, 1890-91
Sullivan: Carson, Pirie, Scott Department Store, Chicago, 1899-1904
Burnham and Root: Reliance Building, Chicago, 1894
Empire State Building, NY, 1929-31
Modernism in Architecture • Modernist architecture emphasizes function. It attempts to provide for specific needs rather than imitate nature.
Modernist • 1. Wright • 2. The Bauhaus • 3. Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright • Organic and romantic
Frank Lloyd Wright. Robie House. Chicago, Illinois. 1909.
The Bauhaus • Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, through a fusion of Grand Ducal Academy of Art with the Arts and Crafts School • Advocated a close relationship between the function and formal design
The Bauhaus • Endorsed the new synthetic materials of modern technology, a stark simplicity of design, and the standardization of parts for affordable, mass-produced merchandise, as well as for large-scale housing. (Fiero 837)
Le Corbusier Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Characterized by poetic minimalism: “Less is more.” The International Style
International Style • Emphasis on truth-telling: no decoration • Subscribed to idea that form follows function • Building seen as volume generated by interplay of planes and spaces • Planar flatness of walls: preference for stucco, which unfortunately cracks
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) • mastered the use of glass in the steel-frame skyscraper, creating the face of the modern corporation • linear, rational, and (in theory) cheap • believed in an objective architecture based on the machine age; rejected ornaments, calling them “noodles”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York, 1954-58
Le Corbusier • A failed sociological architect but an inspired aesthetic one • Voisin Plan of 1925 would clear 600 acre L-shaped site on Right Bank • Get rid of history to make way for a “vertical city . . . bathed in light and air”
Plan Voisin for Paris, 1925, Le Corbusier, The vision of the zoned modernist city built with standardized industrial construction http://www.ecosensual.net/drm/ideas/future1.html
Plan Voisin for Paris, 1925, Le Corbusier, Economically 'efficient', yet shown to be an urban disaster around the world. http://www.ecosensual.net/drm/ideas/future1.html
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille, France, 1946-52 18 stories, containing flats for 1600 people