The Origins and Growth of the International Avant-Garde

Avant-Garde

Avant-Garde: Between the Battlefield and the Studio

The metaphor contains a theory of history: an advance guard assumes the army will follow.

Villa Savoye, 1928-31

Le Corbusier

Poissy, France

Van Eetvelde House, 1895-1901

Victor Horta

Brussels, Belgium

Metro Entrance Canopy, 1900

Hector Guimard

Paris, France

The secession, 1898

Joseph Maria Olbrich

Vienna, Austria

Second Secession Exhibition poster, 1898

Joseph Maria Olbrich, graphic designer

500 schilling Austrian banknote featuring Otto Wagner and the Postal Savings Bank Building, 1985

Stadbahn (City Railway) Pavilion, 1894-1901

Otto Wagner (with Joseph Maria Olbrich)

Vienna, Austria

Majolikahaus, 1898-99

Otto Wagner

Vienna, Austria

Austrian Postal Savings Bank, frontal façade (L) and interior glass vault with akuminum heat vents (R), 1904-06 and 1910-12

Otto Wagner

Otto Wagner

Vienna, Austria

Looshaus, 1901-11

Adolf Loos

Vienna, Austria

Scheu House stair hall, 1912

Adolf Loos

Vienna, Austria

Tea kettle for AEG, 1909

Peter Behrens

Ingenieur-Aesrhetik, 1910

AEG Turbine Factory, 1909

Architect: Peter Behrens

Engineer: Karl Bernhard

Berlin, Germany

Fagus Factory, 1911-13

Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer

Alfeld an Leine, Germany

North American grain elevators and silos. 1913

published in the Werkbund yearbook

Glass Pavilion, 1914

Bruno Taut

Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne, Germany

La Citta Nuova (The New City), housing with external lifts and connection systems to different street levels and air and trains station with funicular cableways, 1913

Antonia Sant’Elia

Preliminary color scheme for ceiling and walls of the dance hall at the Café Aubette, 1927

Theo van Doesburg

Strasbourg, France

Truus Schroeder House, 1924

Gerrit Rietveld (with Truus Schroeder)

Utrecht, Netherlands

Villa Jeanneret-Perret, 1912

Le Corbusier

La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland

Frame of slabs, columbs, and stair after Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino system, 1914-15

Berlin Friedrichstrasse skyscraper Competition entry, 1921

Mies Van Der Rohe

Charcoal on paper

Friedrichstrasee plan (first)

Glass Skyscraper plan Second)

Glass skyscraper project for Berlin, 1922

Mies Van Der Rohe

photomontage

Brick Country House project plan, 1924 (1964), unbuilt

Mies Van Der Rohe

Ink on tracing paper

Barcelona Pavilion, 1929

Mies Van Der Rohe and Lilly Reich

Barcelona, Spain

Weissenhof House, 1927

Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret

Stuttgart, Germany