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Urbanization As Seen Through Late 19c - Early 20c Architecture & Living Conditions

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

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Urbanization As Seen Through Late 19c - Early 20c Architecture & Living Conditions

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  1. Urbanization As Seen Through Late 19c - Early 20c Architecture & Living Conditions

  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. William Le Baron Jenney: NY Life Insurance Bldg. Chicago, 1894

  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. 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. DH Burnham: Railway Exchange, Chicago, 1904

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

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

  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:Guggenheim Museum, NYC - 1959

  21. NEW YORK CITY: "Gotham"

  22. 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

  23. Western Union Bldg,. NYC - 1875

  24. ManhattanLifeInsurance Bldg.NYC - 1893

  25. SingerBuilding NYC - 1902

  26. Woolworth Bldg.NYC - 1911

  27. FlatironBuilding NYC – 1902 D. H. Burnham

  28. Grand Central Station, 1913

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

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

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

  32. “Dumbell” Tenement

  33. “Dumbell “ Tenement, NYC

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

  35. Tenement Slum Living

  36. Lodgers Huddled Together

  37. Tenement Slum Living

  38. Struggling Immigrant Families

  39. Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”

  40. St. Patrick’s Cathedral

  41. Hester Street – Jewish Section

  42. Pell St. - Chinatown, NYC

  43. Urban Growth: 1870 - 1900

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