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

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

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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

  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 Building, NYC, 1897

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

  10. D. H. Burnham • 1846 – 1912 • Use of steelas a superstructure.

  11. DH Burnham: Fisher [Apt.] Bldg, Chicago, 1896

  12. D. H. Burnham: Marshall Fields Dept. Store, 1902

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

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

  15. Frank Lloyd Wright:Hollyhock House [Los Angeles], 1917

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

  17. Interior of “Falling Waters”

  18. F. L. Wright Furniture

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

  20. Frank Lloyd Wright:Susan Lawrence Dana House, Springfield, IL - 1902

  21. Frank Lloyd Wright:Johnson Wax Bldg. – Racine, WI, 1936

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

  23. NEW YORK CITY: "Gotham"

  24. 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

  25. Western Union Bldg,. NYC - 1875

  26. ManhattanLifeInsurance Bldg.NYC - 1893

  27. SingerBuilding NYC - 1902

  28. Woolworth Bldg.NYC - 1911

  29. FlatironBuilding NYC – 1902 D. H. Burnham

  30. Grand Central Station, 1913

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

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

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

  34. “Dumbbell“ Tenement

  35. “Dumbbell “ Tenement, NYC

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

  37. Tenement Slum Living

  38. Lodgers Huddled Together

  39. Tenement Slum Living

  40. Struggling Immigrant Families

  41. Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”

  42. St. Patrick’s Cathedral

  43. Hester Street – Jewish Section

  44. 1900RoshHashanahGreetingCard

  45. Pell St. - Chinatown, NYC

  46. Urban Growth: 1870 - 1900

  47. Frederick Law Olmstead, Central Park, NYC, 1858

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