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History of Modern Architecture Exam 1
Study Cards for the Mass Art History of Modern Architecture Exam 1 (Taught by Tanja Conley)
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
02/26/2014

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Altes Museum


Carl Friedrick Schinkel


Berlin, Germany


1824-1828


1 of the 1st museums, design of the building "takes you to a sacred place"

 

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Crystal Palace


Joseph Paxton


London


1850-51


Housed Great Exhibition of 1851

the birth of prefrabrication

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Bibliotheque Ste. Genevieve

 

Henri Labrouste


Paris


1843-50


1st use of iron skeletal structure + made visible in civic building

iron construction - poetry of construction

names of authors of books inside engraved on facade

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Marshall Fields Store


Henry H. Richardson


1885-87


Chicago


Dawn of Modern Architecture

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Auditorium Building


Louis Sullivan


Chicago


1886


"Form Follows Function"

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Monadnock Building

 

John Root and Daniel Burnham

 

Chicago

 

1884

 

Plain facade, no historical connection, no ornimentation

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Reliance Building

 

Burnham and Root

 

Chicago

 

1890

 

free construction -> big windows

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Wainwright Building

 

Louis Sullivan

 

St. Louis

 

1890

 

3 part scheme, like classical column, everyother flute is not structural, ornimentation from natural things

 

 

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Gauranty Building

 

Louis Sullivan

 

1894

 

3 part scheme, verticle emphasis, byzantine column,

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Carson Pirie Scott Store

 

Louis Sullivan

 

Chicago

 

1900

 

Sullivan's last major commison

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Gamble House

 

Green + Green

 

Pasadena, CA

 

1910

 

Japanese inspiration, no clear division between inside and outside

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Robie House

 

Frank Lloyd Wright

 

Chicago

 

1910

 

Developed idea of interior space, not based on boring European tradition, Clear Prarie Style

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Unity Church

 

Frank Lloyd Wright

 

1905

 

Illinois

 

Boldly used concrete in a religious building

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Larkin Building

 

Frank Lloyd Wright

 

Buffalo, NY

 

1905

 

Open interior, sky lit atrium, commisioned behind Sullivan's back, Wright's 1st building on his own

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Glasgow School of Art

 

Charles Rennie Makintosh

 

Glasgow, Scottland

 

1900

 

Directly handles glass and metal, big windows in studios, everything designed by Makintosh (complete work of art)

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Sagrada Familia

 

Antoni Gaudi

 

Barcelona, Spain

 

1882-2026

 

built for aniversary, contraversial bc rienforced concrete, made with tourist dollars

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Park Güell

 

Antoni Gaudi

 

1900-14

 

Barcelona, Spain

 

Areas from all different cultures - like Disney World

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Casa Batllo (House of Bones)

 

Antoni Gaudi

 

1905

 

Barcelona, Spain

 

Tells a story about the dragon St. George (patron of Barcelona) killed, inside and outside very different (expresses idea of pure soul)

 

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Hotel Tassel

 

Victor Horta

 

Brussels

 

1892-93

 

1st clear example of art noveau

 

 

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Paris Metro

 

Hector Guimard

 

Paris

 

1900

 

One of the 1st public places where art nouveau was applied, Subway stops are jewels with urban fabrics, one of the earliest examples of the subway system

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Rue Franklin Apartments

 

August Peret

 

Paris

 

1902

 

known for rectangle concrete frame construction, pattern in concrete, for low income people to see the light too

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Sucession Building

 

Joseph Albritch

 

Vienna

 

1898

 

Broke away from ring stross

 

 

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Postal Savings Bank

 

Otta Wagner

 

Vienna

 

1900

 

center of money and power, used glass bricks to allow you to see the glow of gold through the floor, "high tech" exposed ventilation

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American Bar

 

Loos

 

Vienna

 

1907

 

made a tiny room look much bigger with the use of mirrors

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Goldman and Salatsch Store

 

Loos

 

Vienna

 

1909

 

Across the Street from the Imperial Court, liberated mankind from superfluous labor

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AEG Factory

 

Peter Barons

 

Berlin

 

1910

 

logo engraving (advertisement), influenced by Parthenon (colonade down the side), supported by a stystem of trusses

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Fagus Factory

 

Walter Gropius

 

Germany

 

1911-13

 

Modern Architecture about abstraction, ephasised Avant-Gaurd theme, free standing facade: facade walls were purely decorative

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Glass Pavillion

 

Bruno Taut

 

Cologne

 

1914

 

celebration of idustrialization, show off how good ability to pre-fab glass panels was

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La Citta Nuova

 

Antoni Sant'Elia

 

Concept - Never Built

 

1913-14

 

Represents idea of Megastructure as a city

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Schroder House

 

Gerrit Rietveld

 

Utrecht, Netherlands

 

1923

 

Resembles De Stijl painting style (like Mondrian)

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Maison Citrohan

 

Le Corbusier

 

1920

 

France

 

A mass-producible "machine for living", uses the domino system

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Domino House

 

Le Corbusier

 

1914

 

Concept

 

"freeing" from techtonics, expresses 5 points of architecture

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Rusakov Workers Club

 

Konstantin Melinkov

 

Moscow

 

1927-1928

 

Seats project out of the auditorium, made for a new type of program (workers club)

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USSR Pavilion

 

Konstantin Melnikov

 

Paris

 

1930

 

Propoganda instrument (Avant-gaurd in Russia), wasn't Art Deco like the other buildings (only other like it was Le Corbusier's)

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Project for Monument to Third International

 

Vladimir Taltin

 

1919

 

Concept - Never built

 

Symbolises Russian power, different sections in interior rotate, Baroque architecture

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One significant outcome of the Colombian Exposition in Chicago
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city planing in the exposition > CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT - beautiful city can change spirit of society > produce good americans
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Connection between AEG Factory and Fagus Factory
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-Factories

-Colonade (like Parthenon)

-Corner doesn't support anything

-Name of company on building

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Key elements of FLW's Prairie Style (1 building as example)
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Robie House

-Horizontal Lines (Like Midwestern Landscape)

-Central Fire Place (Hearth)

-Connection to Outside (Park, Courtyard)

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Key elements of Sullivan's skyscraper (1 building as example)
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Guaranty Building

-emphasised verticle line

-3 part scheme (like column)

-detail @ top influenced by nature (trees)

 

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Significance of Crystal Palace, both in construction technique and materials
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-made of iron and glass (thus the name)

-everything was prefabricated so assembly was quick

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Key differences between the Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and USA
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Eur: brick, defined floor plan,

 

USA: wood, open floor plan,

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Goal of German Werkbund
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Focus on design

Handmade VS. Machine Made

-Which is better?

 

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Key Points of architecture in Domino House
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1. Pilotis (free standing columns, lift off ground)

2. Flat Roof - Garden Terrace

3. Free Interior

4. Free composition of external curtain walls

5. Ribbon windows

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Significance of Tatlin's Monument in the 3rd International
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-expressed emotional spirit about social justice

-for a socialist group

-interior pieces supposed to rotate (different time lengths)

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Significance of Bruno Taut's Glass Pavillion
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-Made of all glass

-Ad for glass factory - show that mass produced products can create beautiful architecture

-how it looked changed from day to night

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