Modern Architecture and Design Midterm

Royal Saltworks- Claude Nicolas, Arc-et-Senans, France, 1774-78

House for Sexual Education- Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1804

Cenotaph fo Sir Issac Newton- Etienne Louis Boullee, 1784

Strawberry Hill House- Horace Walpole, Twickenham, England, 1750-75

Doric Temple at Hagley Park- James Stuart, Worcestershire, England, 1758

University of Virginia- Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, VA, 1822-26

Houses of Parliament- Augustus Pugin and Charles Barry, London, 1836-45

The Iron Bridge- Thomas Pritchard, Coalbrookdale, England, 1777-79

Crystal Palace- Joseph Paxton and Charles Fox, Great Exhibition, London, 1851

Biulbiotheque Ste. Genevieve- Henri Labrouste, Paris, 1889

King’s Cross Station- Lewis Cubitt, London, 1851-52

John A. Roebling and Washington Roebling, New York, 1869-83

Tour Eiffel- Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, Paris, 1889

L’Opera- Charles Garnier, Paris, 1865-75

Red House- Phillip Webb and William Morris, Bexleyheath, England, 1859

Oak Sideboard- Gustav Stickley, Craftsman Workshop, 1901

Hotel Tassel- Victor Horta, Brussels, Belgium, 1892

Metro Stations- Hector Guimar, Paris, 1899-1902

Sagrada Familia- Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona, 1884-present

Glasgow School of Art- Charles Ronnie Mackintosh, Scotland, 1879-99 and 1907-09

Argyle Street Tearoom and high-backed chair- Charles Ronnie Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1898

Secession Building- Joseph Maria Olbrich, Vienna, 1897-99

Postal Savings Bank- Otto Wagner, Vienna, 1903-10

Villa Muller- Adolf Loos, Prague, 1930

A.E.G. Turbine Factory- Peter Behrens, Berlin, 1909

Einstein Tower- Eric Mendelsohn, Potsdam, Germany, 1920

German Pavilion- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, 1929

Bauhaus- Walter Gropius, Dessau, Germany, 1926

Wainwright Building- Louis Sullivan, St. Louis, 1890-91

The Flatiron Building- Daniel Burnham, New York, 1902

Issac Bell House- McKim, Mead, and White, Newport, 1883

Frederick Robie House- Frank Loyd Wright, Chicago, 1909

Wheeler Bailey Hopi House- Irving Gill, La Jolla, 1907

Architecture Parlante

Architecture that explains its own function

Picturesque

Blends into the natural landscape

Romantic Eclecticisim

Mixture of various historical elements

Engineer Architecture

Style of architecture that is less artistic and more modern

L’Art Nouveau

Architectural style with organic, flowing lines

Spook School

Glasgow School, which manipulated forms and embraced minimalism and white

Gesamtkunstwerk

“Total work of art”, arts and crafts movement, everything carefully designed and crafted

Rationalism

A style using symmetry, geometry, function, and little decoration

Expressionism

Style with bold shapes and organic forms

Curtain Wall Construction

Tall buildings with “skeletons” that support them, rather than the walls

Shingle Style

American style using lots of wood