The Fieldston School
Modern Architecture
Andrew Meyers
Unit Two: High Modernism- The Reign of the International Style, 1918-1950
Days 26-28: The Search for the Modern Style- Structure, Expressionism,
Futurism, DeStijl
Prologue:
Response to Eclecticism
Ringstrasse , Vienna, 1858
Josef Maria Olbrich
Darmstadt artists Colony, 1900
Exhibition Gallery
World War I: Inter-Nationalism
Prologue:
Aesthetic Authority: Rationalisms and the Industrial Aesthetic
Home Insurance Company, Chicago, 1884 (W.L. Jenney)
Viollet-le-Duc, Discourses, 1872
Ornament and Crime: The Search for Expression
Steiner House, Vienna, 1910 (Adolph Loos)
Secession Building, Vienna, 1898 (J.M. Olbrich)
Essential Form: Romantic Classicism
House Projects (C.-N. Ledoux)
Altes Museum, Berlin, 1824 (K. F. Schinkel)
Honesty and Morality: Pugin, Morris and the Arts and Crafts
Oxford Univ. Museum, 1855 (Dean and Woodward)
A. W. Pugin, Contrasts
The Battle of the Styles: The Excesses of Eclecticism
"Chaos" cartoon, Architectural Record, 1904
Ringstrasse , Vienna, 1858
I
Steel and Concrete
1889 Paris Exposition
Hall of Machines (Contamin, Pierron, Charton, Dutert)
Eiffel Tower
Ford Motor Company, Detroit, 1910 (Albert Kahn)
August Perret (1874-1954)
25 bis Rue Franklin, Paris, 1902
Garage Ponthieu, 1905
Robert Maillart (1872-1940)
Bridge over Rhine, Tavasna, Switzerland, 1905
Davos Sanatorium, 1907
"Dom-ino," 1914 (Le Corbusier, Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
Unity Temple, Oak Park, 1906 (F.L. Wright)
II Expressionism: Body and Spirit
Bruno Taut (1880-1938)
"Glass House" Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne, 1914
Alpine Architectural Project
Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953)
Project: Motor Body Works, 1915
Project: Imaginary Drawing, 1917
Hat Factory, Luchenwalde, Germany, 1921
Einstein Tower, Potsdam, 1920
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
Project: Hotel in Brno, 1926
I.G. Farben Company, Administration Building, Hochst, Germany,
1921
Chicago Tribune Entries, 1922
Raymond Hood, Walter Gopius, Hans Scharoun, Bruno Taut
III Futurism: "The New City"
Brooklyn Bridge, 1867 (Roebling and Washington)
Joseph Stella, Brooklyn Bridge 1867
R. Rimmel, Future New York
Hugh Ferris, NYC Zoning Envelope 1922
Antonio Sant' Elia (1888-1916)
Projects:
Milan Terminal, 1914
Power Station
Skyscraper
Aircraft Hangar
IV De Stijl: Freedom of the Pictorial
Cubism and Purism
Ferdinand Leger, The City
Dutch Precursers
Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam, 1877 (P. Cuypers)
Stock Exchange, 1897 (H. P. Berlage)
Eigen Haard Housing, 1921 (M. de Klerk)
Hilversum Town Hall, 1928 (W.M. Dudock)
Huis Ter Heide Villa, 1916 (van te Hoff)
Mrs. Gale House, Oak Park, 1909 (F.L.W.)
De Stijl
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Bright Colors, 1913
Composition with Red, Yellow, Blue and Black, 1921
Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942
Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931)
Color Study for a Building, 1922
Cafe Aubetta, 1928
Space-Time Construction, 1922
Gerrit Rietveldt (1884-1964)
Chair, 1918
Shroeder House, Utrecht, 1924