Modern Architecture: Exam 3

Secession and De Stijl, Futurism and Constructivism, Deutscher Werkbund an Bauhaus, L'Esprit Nouveau, Giuseppe Terragni, and Mies van de Rohe

Secession Building

• Vienna, 1897

• by Joseph Maria Olbrich

• he founded the first architecture labor union

Post Office Savings Bank

• Vienna, 1904

• by Otto Wagner

• the main room has modern industrial forms

Loos Haus

• Vienna, 1910

• by Adolf Loos

• he hated people with tattoos—he thought they were muderers

Moller House

• Vienna, 1928

• by Adolf Loos

• the design focuses on the 4th dimension: time

Spatial Diagram

• 1924

• by Theo van Doesburg

• he didn’t design much other than diagrams

• if you eliminate style, you end war and create a utopia

Schroder House

• Utrecht, 1923

• by Gerrit Rietveld

• made of printed plywood to look machined

Red Blue Chair

• Utrecht, 1917

• by Gerrit Rietveld

• made for the Schroder House

La Citta Nuova

• 1913

• by Antonio Sant ’Elia

• in Italy he’s the father of modern architecture

• designed to evoke ancient monumentality

Monument to the Third International

• 1919

• by Vladimir Tatlin

• he was the leader of the Russian constructivists

• was supposed to be an office building for communist party but it was never built

Proun

• 1921

• by El Lissitzky

• he was a member of the constructivist group

• combines architecture, sculpture, graphics, and mixed media

Cloud Hanger Project

• 1925

• by El Lissitzky

• proposal for a utopian building

• everything in the ground in communal

USSR Pavilion

• Paris, 1925

• by Konstantin Melnikov

• diagonal is used as an agitprop

Rusakov Worker’s Club

• Moscow, 1925

• by Konstantin Melnikov

• red for communism

AEG Turbine Factory

• Berlin, 1908

• by Peter Behrens

• combines the ancient with the modern—masonry with steel and glass

Fagus Factory

• Berlin, 1911

• by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer

• curtain wall maximizes work

Glass Pavilion

• Cologne, 1914

• by Bruno Taut

• commissioned by a glass company

Werkbund Exhibition Tower

• Cologne, 1914

• by Henry van de Velde

• one of the few that still liked ornament

Einstein Tower

• Potsdam, 197

• by Erich Mendelsohn

• designed to perform experiments based on hypothesizes of Einstein

Bauhaus Building

• Weimar, 1926

• by Walter Gropius

• pinwheel building—inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright

Wassily Chair

• 1926

• by Marcel Breuer

• he was 23 when he designed it

• Hendrix thinks its extremely uncomfortable

Light Space Modulator

• 1923

• by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

• he was a Hungarian industrial designer

• best known for his kinetic sculptures

Weissenhofsiedlung

• Stuttgart, 1927

• organized by Mies van der Rohe

• experimental housing project

Maison Domino

• 1917

• by Le Corbusier

• designed for an affordable housing competition

• entire cities were built on this idea

Still Life

• 1920

• by Charles Edouard Jeanneret

• every object is machined formed

• saw themselves as social engineers by embracing the machine

Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau

• 1925

• by Le Corbusier

• painted plywood to look machined

• snap in modular apartment unit—you can take your prefabricated home anywhere

Villa Stein

• Garches, 1926

• by Le Corbusier

• commissioned by a rich American Art collector

Villa Savoye

• Poissy, 1928

• by Le Corbusier

• heavily bombed in WWII

Novocomum

• Como, 1927

• by Giuseppe Terragni

• covered in tiny little marble tiles

Casa del Fascio

• Como, 1932

• by Giuseppe Terragni

• fascism party headquarters

Asilo Sant ’Elia

• Como, 1936

• by Giuseppe Terragni

• elementary school—design based on surveillance of the children

Danteum

• Como, 1938

• by Giuseppe Terragni

• unbuilt project commissioned by Mussolini

Casa Giuliani Frigerio

• Como, 1939

• by Giuseppe Terragni

• apartment building

Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper Project

• Berlin, 1921

• by Mies van der Rohe

• design for a skyscraper competition

Glass Skyscraper Project

• 1922

• by Mies van der Rohe

• was a Nazi—he wanted to be Hitler’s architect

• undulating plan

Barcelona Pavilion

• Barcelona, 1929

• by Mies van der Rohe

• hired by the German government for the World’s Fair

Illinois Institute of Technology Campus

• Chicago, 1939

• by Mies van der Rohe

• Hendrix went to school here in 1980—he was even in a frat

Farnsworth

• Plano, 1946

• by Mies van der Rohe

• built for a doctor but she hated it—she sued for it

Lake Shore Drive Apartments

• Chicago, 1948

• by Mies van der Rohe

• he always went over budget

Crown Hall

• Chicago, 1950

• by Mies van der Rohe

• housed the architecture program—Hendrix went here and the roof leaked all over his desk

Seagram Building

• NYC, 1954

• by Mies van der Rohe

• in collaboration with Phillip Johnson