De Stijl style Dutch The style 20 th century art movement founded by painter Piet Mondrian who promoted utopian ideals and developed a simplified geometric style Open plan flat color geometric rectangular shape like Mondrians paintings ID: 795260
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20th century architecture
Slide2De Stijl (style)
Dutch “The style”, 20
th
century art movement founded by painter Piet Mondrian who promoted utopian ideals and developed a simplified geometric styleOpen plan, flat color, geometric rectangular shape (like Mondrian’s paintings)
Mondrian
Slide3De Stijl
architecture:
Gerrit
Rietveld, Schroder House, Netherlands, 1924
Slide4Bauhaus (style)
A school of art and design, promoting unity between architecture, art and design
Like de
stijl, bauhaus was rooted in utopian principlesAvoids all embellishmentsSimple and geometric
Slide5BauhausGropius, Shop Block at the Bauhaus, Germany, 1925-1926
Slide6Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe
, model for glass skyscraper, Germany, 1922
Slide7International Style
Bauhaus eventually became known as the International Style due to widespread popularity
“machine for living”
Slide8Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, France, 1929
Slide9Art Deco (America)
America embraced Bauhaus, which rejected ornament, but also embraced other styles
Universal term that applies to architecture, interior, furniture, jewelry, fashion etc.
Streamlines, elongated look, symmetrical, simple flat shapesChrysler Building has a diminishing fan design, streamlined and flat, popular design in 1920’s
Slide10William van Alen, Chrysler Building, NY
NY
1928-1930
Slide11Prairie Style
Associated with Frank Lloyd Wright, who believed architecture was natural and organic
Roofs extend beyond the walls, non-symmetrical design, interacts with its natural surroundings
Wandering plan, captures the expansive, natural environment
Slide12Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, Chicago, 1907-1909
Slide13Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936-1939
Slide14Modernism
Architecture style that developed after WWII
Concerned with formalism and simplicity
Buildings have intriguing organic sculptural qualities
Slide15Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, NY NY 1943-1959
Slide16Le Corbusier, Notre Dame du Haut, France, 1950-1955 (mountain top chapel, reflects the shape of praying hands, a doves wing and a ships prow)
Slide17Saarinen, TWA terminal, Kennedy Airport, NY, NY (design suggests expansive wings, movement and flight)
Slide18Utzon, Sydney Opera House, Australia, 1959-1972 (clusters of concrete shells, suggest buoyancy of seabird wings, billowing sails on a ship)
Slide19Minimalist style of modern architecture
Based on
bauhaus
style less is morePowerful and heroic looking buildings in an urban landscapeGiant corporate skyscrapersSleek, rigid, geometric
Slide20Mies van der Rohe
& Philip Johnson, Seagram Building, NY, 1956-1958
Slide21Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Sears Tower, Chicago, 1974
Slide22PostModernism (style)
A rejection of the conservative style of modernism
More expansive and inclusive in design
Can draw in some inspiration from the past, such as Rome, temple designs etc.
Slide23Charles Moore, Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, 1976-1980
Slide24Philip Johnson & John Burgee, AT&T (now Sony) Building, NY, 1978-1984 (more granite than glass, variation of a classical pediment at the top)
Slide25Deconstructivism (style)
Disorients the observer
Unstable, imbalance,
assymmetry, irregularity
Slide26Behnisch, Hysolar
Institute, Germany, 1987
Slide27Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain, 1997