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Modern/Futurism

Destijl

     movement known as neoplasticism

     dutch movement founded in 1917

     formal school

     consisted of

    Gerrit Rietveld

     -MusiekSchool - Gerrit Rietveld

          emphasized "productive style"

    - more in facade then in the entire building

     -Henny House

     -The Schroeder House

     -Red Blue Chair

     Piette Maudrian

 

Bauhaus

     german school started 1918-1920

     meant to respond to the horrors of WWI

     movement in Art, Furniture, design, Architecture

     actual school

     almost walls of windows

     starting to see curvature 

     like line and vertical

     liked bending steel

     Breuer - invented cantilever chair

 

Internationalists

     prominent architects that go all over the world

     Le Corbuiser - French

          - huge cantilevering edges

          - Domino House

          - Weissenhoff House

          - designing Utopian communities within one building

     Frank Llyod Wright

          - believed in integrating nature with architecture

          - Falling Waters

          - Gordon House

          - Taliesen West, AZ

          - The Guggenheim

          - Imperial Hotel     

 

 

 

 

 

Eero Saarinen

     Furniture

          Tulip Chair

          Womb Chair

 

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

     - utilizations  of natural material

     Crown Hall - IIllioins

     Farnswoth house

     IBM Building

     Seagram Buidin

 

Charles and Ray Eames

Potato Chip Chair

LCM

DCADCM

 

Daniel Lieeskin

 

Zaha

 

 

Bibliography

Calloway, Stephen, Elizabeth C. Cromley, and Alan Powers. The Elements of Style: An Encyclopedia of Domestic Architectural Detail. Buffalo, NY:

     Firefly, 2005. Print.

Fazio, Michael W., Marian Moffett, Lawrence Wodehouse, and Marian Moffett. A World History of Architecture. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2008. Print.

"Residential Roofing." Ann Arbor Roofing Contractors. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2014.

Russell, Douglas A. Period Style for the Theatre. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1980. Print.

Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. Print.

van Blommestein, Lex. "Realism Architecture". Period Styles and Resources. Room 235, Auditorium.  19 November 2014.

 

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