Modern Architecture 1910s – 1960s

Modern Architecture? The massive development of the steel industry led to a swift reduction in price

1867- $166

1870- $107

1875- $69

1880- $68

1885- $29

1890- $32

1895- $32

Louis Sullivan

the father of modern architecture

and

the creator of the modern skyscraper

“Form ever follows function”

Louis Sullivan,

The Guaranty (Prudential Building),

Buffalo, NY, 1894.

Louis Sullivan,

The Guaranty

(Prudential Building),

Buffalo, NY, 1894.

Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894

Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright

Influenced the PRAIRIE SCHOOL

Louis Sullivan,

The Guaranty (Prudential Building),

Buffalo, NY, 1894.

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Remember the Prairie School?

Modernist architecture?

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright, Darwin D. Martin House, 1904.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1906.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House

(Fallingwater), Pennsylvania, 1936

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZ0x5Qkgzg

The Guggenheim Museum(The Museum of Non-Objective Art)

founded 1939

Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum

BauhausGerman style movement from 1919-1933

All of the Bauhaus directors were architects. (“The ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building”)

•Walter Gropius, founder and director

•Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, last director

Bauhaus Logo

Marcel Breuer "Wassily" chair, 1925, chrome-plated steel, canvas upholstery

Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Kubus stacking containers, ca. 1938Glass, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.

Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: With Rays, 1959Oil on Masonite, 48 1/8 x 48 1/8 in.Wassily Kandinsky, Black Frame,

1922

Van der RoheGropius

Mies Van Der RoheGerman Pavilion, 1929. BAUHAUS

Mies Van Der RoheBarcelona Chair, 1929.

Mies Van Der RoheSeagram Building, 1958

“LESS is MORE”

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930, Location: Poissy-sur-Seine, France

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929-1930

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdRd-O83yB0