AAH Modern Exam #3

Avant Garde, Bauhaus-Purism, Terragni-Mies

Secession Building

• Vienna, Austria

• exhibition hall

• “Sacred Spring” - motto

• gold laurel wreaths in a ball onto the building, connection to Apollo

Post Office Savings Bank

• 1904

• Otto Wagner

• Vienna, Austra

• Transition Building - stages a transition for one approach to the next

• the outside celebrates old empire, the inside celebrates the new industrialist age

Loos Haus

• 1910

• Adolf Loos

• Bank, not a house despite the name

• first building in Europe with no ornament

Moller House

• 1928

• Adolf Loos

• contained a free plan

• plastic space- malleable, dynamic space

Spatial Diagram

• 1924

• Theo van Doesburg

• Axonometric drawing

Schröder House

• 1923

• Utrecht, Netherlands

• first house in Europe with no ornament

• interior of the house is adjustable, where the walls and furniture go, to accommodate the resident

Red Blue Chair

• 1917

• Gerrit Rietveld - designed by

• you cannot see the joints of the chair - sanded and painted over

La Città Nuova

• 1913

Monument to the Third International

• 1919

• Vladimir Tatlin

• an office building that was never built

• kinetic sculpture

Proun

• 1921

• El Lissitzky

Cloud Hanger Project

• 1925

• El Lissitzky

USSR Pavilion

• 1925

• Konstantin Melnikov

Rusakov Worker’s Club

• 1927

• Konstantin Melnikov

AEG Turbine Factory

• Peter Behrens