The Modern Era Architecture

 

started after the Arts and Crafts Movement

first movement in recent history that wasn't a direct revival of Greek, Rome or Gothic architecture

 

Art Nouveau

- popular in Scotland, England, France, Czechoslovakia 

- styles

     - Beauty and the Beast

          - icon is a dragonfly

          - both grotesque and beautiful

          - glorified to be a balance

     - curves, swirls and whiplash curves

          - staircase in Tassel Hotel, Belgium by Victor Horta

          - use of exaggerated curves to exemplify natural vintage 

          - bendable, flexible, malleable but not breakable

     - a revival of nature as a decorative element

          - feelings of the natural and unpredicatable flow of vintage becomes a strong decorative motif

          - asymmetry and natural balance

          - allowing for "air"

Prominent Architects, Designers and artists

Victor Horta - Belgian

     - Tassel Hotel, Belgium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     - Hôtel Solvay, Brussels, Belgium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hector Guimard - French

     - Paris Metro Station, Paris, France

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     - Guimard House

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Antoni Gaudi - Spain

     - “madman architect of Barcelona"

     - son of potters

          - included tile and ceramics in his works as 

     - everything swept and curved 

          - no corners

     - Sarada Familia, Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     - Casa Batllo, Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     - Casa Mila, Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     - Parc Guell, Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Rennie Mackintosh - English

     - Glasgow Art School

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     - Hill House, Scotland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     - furniture 

          - loved idea of the eye as a motif

          - futurist looking

          - lot of laddering and linear

          - upholstery is a punch of color

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   - glass work

          - roses very popular     

          - falls into the world of impressionism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rene Lalique - France

     - French Art Nouveau

     - Jeweler and Glassmaker

     - used semiprecious stones and glass as decorative element

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Émile Gallé - France

     - bent and carved wood to exemplify the curve

     - used wood inlay

     - added stone to bring art to furniture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis Majorelle - France

     - used wood, metal and lacquer for furniture designs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viennese Seccession

- tends to be more geometric

- a more industrial and linear art nouveau style

- began bending metal

- Joseph Hoffman

     - known as a designer of everything

          - architect, furniture and house ware

     - embraced the industrial revolution

 

Jugenstil

- German movement

- though embracing line and style, much more symmetrical and tamer than in     

     France, Spain and Belgium

 

Art Deco

- mainly a North American style

- based in geometry and in Egyptian style

- focused on geometrical shapes and arches

- embracing the metallic 

- interior movement

- very prominent in New York City

- also seen a lot in Miami, Detroit, Havana, Mexico City and Cincinatti

- popularized with the rise of early film

- deco palette: metallic, powder blue, gold, silver etc.

- Motifs: sun, geometry, mirrors

- Chrysler Building

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Empire State Building

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Radio City Music Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Cochise County Courthouse, AZ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Buffalo City Hall, NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Hall of Mirrors, Netherland Hotel, Cincinatti 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Craftsman Style

- epitomized by Frank Llyod Wright

     - Nathan G. Moore House

- interiors identified by two key elements

     1. use of natural wood

     2. implementation of Build In cabinetry 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis Comfor Tiffany

- Stained, painted and leaded glass 

- Daffodil Lamp Shade

- Tree of Life    

- Wisteria Lamp

- Nautilus Lamp