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Modernism in Architecture

Modernism in Architecture. Old Toronto City Hall, 1899. Romanesque Revival style. Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1885. Flat Iron Building, N.Y.C., 1902. New technology: steel girder skeletons. New technology, old fashioned styles…. Breaking with the past; new design aesthetics.

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Modernism in Architecture

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  1. Modernism in Architecture

  2. Old Toronto City Hall, 1899. Romanesque Revival style

  3. Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1885 Flat Iron Building, N.Y.C., 1902 New technology: steel girder skeletons...

  4. New technology, old fashioned styles…

  5. Breaking with the past; new design aesthetics. Antoni Gaudi, 1905

  6. Antoni Gaudi, Casa Mila Apartments, 1905 - 07

  7. C.R. Mackintosh; Glasgow School of Art, 1896 - 1910

  8. Frank Lloyd Wright: Robie House, 1908 - 1910

  9. Frank Lloyd Wright: Robie House, 1908 - 1910

  10. Frank Lloyd Wright: Guggenheim Museum, 1956-59

  11. Bauhaus School of Art and Design Dessau, Germany, 1925

  12. Bauhaus Design

  13. Le Corbusier: The International Style Villa Savoye, 1929

  14. Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye interior, 1929

  15. Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52

  16. Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52

  17. Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52

  18. Philip Johnson: Glass House, 1949

  19. Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, 1950

  20. Mies van der Rohe: sketch of a glass tower

  21. Mies van der Rohe: TD Centre, Toronto, 1967

  22. Le Corbusier’s vision of Paris

  23. Nathan Philips Square, Toronto

  24. Government Center, Boston

  25. Oscar Niemeyer: Brazilia

  26. Oscar Niemeyer: Brazilia

  27. Jane Jacobs said: Modernism didn’t work.

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