Emergence of Modernism

Emergence of Modernism

• Clarity and force to achieve movement
• De Stijl was the Dutch artists, sculptors, architects, and designers
  • Means the style
  • Expresses harmony and order
  • Abstraction and universality by reduction of essentials of form and color
  • Used primary colors and black and white
   

People

Frank Llyod Wright

• Known for his use of Horizontal lines
• Non-historical design
• Original design
• Organic Design
• He created structures that complimented the landscape.
• Japanese inspired designer
• First major modern architect. Organic Architecture
• His international career was kicked off by his work in the Imperial Hotel.
• Known for Robie House
• Known for 5757 S Woodlawn Ave Chicago, IL
• Known for Unity Temple (875 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL) which is his only surviving public building from his prairie style
• The Rookery (209 South LaSalle St. Chicago, IL)
• Winslow House in River Forest, IL
• Hickox house in Kankakee, IL was a prairie form house
• Known for Larkin Compnay in Buffalo NY which included innovations such as air conditioning, stained glass windows, built-in desk furniture and suspended toilet bowls
• Known for Avery Coonley which featured the first custom carpet scheme

Walter Gropius

• Known for his lack of ornamentation, functional, industrial feel
• Known for the Bauhaus
  • Bauhaus emerged fine art and applied art
  • It was forced to close is 1933 due to the war
  • Main teachers were Marcel Breuer and Wassily Kandisky

Marcel Breuer

• Created the Cesca chair
• Created the Wassily chair

Wassily Kandisky

• Artist

Miles Van Der Rohe

• His motto was “Less is more”
• Known for the Barcelona Exhibition of 1929
  • Bareclona Exhibition used steel and concrete

• Known for the Tugendhat house in the Czech Republic
• Relocated to America in 1937
• One of the founders of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago
  • He was the head of the architectural program

• Known for the Farnsworth house in Plano, Illinois
• Known for the Barsolona chair and stool
• Known for the Brno chair

Gerrit Rietveld

• Known for the Schroder house in the Netherlands
• Known for the Z chair

I read Paige's blog, I really liked all the information she wrote on the period. She also wrote a lot of information on current applications of the period. She had a section on Frank Lloyd Wright that was very informational.

I also read Rose's blog. I liked how many pictures she had I also liked how she included a picture of the emergence of modernism in fashion. It was a good idea to tie the two together.

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