1 / 32

Modern Architecture

Modern Architecture. Architectural History ACT 322 Doris Kemp. Topics. Modern Architecture Modern Architecture: The Chicago School Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright Modern Architecture: European Modernism. Modern Architecture.

liona
Download Presentation

Modern Architecture

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Modern Architecture Architectural History ACT 322 Doris Kemp

  2. Topics • Modern Architecture • Modern Architecture: The Chicago School • Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright • Modern Architecture: European Modernism

  3. Modern Architecture • The birth of modern architecture came from a realization that the future should not hinge on the past • Earlier periods had relied on even earlier periods to gain inspiration • Modern architecture wanted to look to the future

  4. Modern Architecture: The Chicago School • Early Modernism • The Chicago School • Late 19th and early 20th century • Vast building boom in the heart of Chicago in 1885 • Great Fire of 1871 had destroyed much of the city • Leading architectural teams • Burnham and Root • Holabird and Roche • Adler and Sullivan

  5. Modern Architecture: The Chicago School • Monadnock Building • c. 1889 – 1891 • Burnham and Root • Client had demanded an extremely simplified appearance • Features • Tall, elongated building • 16 stories • Sheer brickwork • Very simple with no décor or carvings

  6. Modern Architecture: The Chicago School http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  7. Modern Architecture: The Chicago School http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  8. Modern Architecture: The Chicago School • Marquette Building • Holabird and Roche • 1893 – 1894 • Has a modern theme with a hint of the Classical • Features • Paneling and cornice work at the top • Continuous piers that support massive lintels recessed in the center bays

  9. Modern Architecture: The Chicago School http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  10. Modern Architecture: The Chicago School http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  11. Modern Architecture: The Chicago School • Walker Warehouse • 1888 – 1889 • Adler and Sullivan • Considered a stripped Romanesque style • Lack of rhythms, rustication, and carved ornament • Features • Twin, arched entranceways • Trabeated, flanking bays

  12. Modern Architecture: The Chicago School http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  13. Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright • Frank Lloyd Wright • The youngest member of the Chicago School • Flamboyant personality and a sense of prophetic mission in architecture • Studied for two years at the University of Wisconsin as an engineer • Decided he did not want to be an engineer • Designed the Larkin Building in Buffalo, NY • A radical leap into modern architecture

  14. Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright • Larkin Building • Buffalo, NY • 1904 • Represented a leap into modern architecture from the 19th century • Features • Rectangular, skylit atrium • Reception facilities, lavatories, lockers, and office space

  15. Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  16. Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  17. Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright • Winslow House • 1893 • Frank Lloyd Wright • River Forest, IL • A study in contrasts • Front of the house was all geometric • Rear garden of the house was completely different than the front • Shattered the front’s boxlike structure with splintered, aggressive forms

  18. Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  19. Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  20. Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright • Francis W. Little House • 1913 • Frank Lloyd Wright • The grandest of Wright’s early interiors • Now installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

  21. Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  22. Modern Architecture: European Modernism • Josef Maria Olbrich • Viennese architect who built the first modern structure in Vienna, Austria • Secession Building • One of the founders of the Viennese Secession • Architectural movement of modernism in Austria

  23. Modern Architecture: European Modernism • Secession Building • Vienna, Austria • 1898 – 1899 • Designed for exhibitions • Features a sky lighted interior framed by closed outer walls • Façade is reminiscent of an Egyptian pylon

  24. Modern Architecture: European Modernism http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  25. Modern Architecture: European Modernism • Auguste Perret • French architect who used ferroconcrete in an aesthetically pleasing way • Alliance of the tensile strength of steel with the compressive resistance of concrete • Structures • Ponthieu Garage, Paris • Le Raincy Church, Near Paris

  26. Modern Architecture: European Modernism • Ponthieu Garage • Paris • Façade reflects the concrete post-and-beam construction behind it • 1905

  27. Modern Architecture: European Modernism http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  28. Modern Architecture: European Modernism • Le Raincy Church • Located near Paris • 1912 – 1913 • Medieval theme • Modern ferroconcrete construction

  29. Modern Architecture: European Modernism http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  30. Modern Architecture: European Modernism http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  31. References • Sullivan, Mary; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ • http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wdpt1.html • Trachtenburg/Hyman; Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity • Wodehouse/Moffett; A History of Western Architecture

  32. Modern Architecture Architectural History ACT 322 Doris Kemp

More Related