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Crystal Palace- London, 1851
Built by Paxton
Exhibition building |
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Opera Garnier
Paris, 1875
built by Charles Garnier |
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Eiffel Tower
Paris, 1889
Built by Gustav Eiffel |
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Galerie de Machine
Paris, 1889
Built by Dutert |
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| The concept that form should be determined chiefly by structural principles |
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Early 19th-century architectural movement
Hallmarks include:
Ornate and heavily decorated
Cathedral-esque spires, scallops, etc.
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International Congresses of Modern Architecture
Conferences in which prominent architects discussed the architectural problems of the day and attempted to solve them |
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German for "Complete work"
Architect designs every aspect of the building, down the doorhandles and furnishings |
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Late 19th-early 20th century
architects tried to harmonize with nature
heavy use of natural (especially botanical) imagery
curved lines and general fluidity |
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Vienna Secession Building
Vienna, 1897
Built by Joseph Olbrich as the architectural manifesto of the vienna secessionists |
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Diagram by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement
Plan to bring modern cities more closely in line with nature and add green space |
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Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin
Designed to demolish large section of downtown paris and replace it with structured, developed housing areas |
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Casa Batllo
Barcelona, 1904
Antoni Gaudi
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Prudential Building
Buffalo, New York, 1896
Built by Louis Sullivan |
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Robie House
Hyde Park, Chicago, 1910
Frank Lloyd Wright
(Prairie School) |
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Villa Savoye
Poissey, France, 1931
Le Corbusier
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Monument to the Third International
Moscow, 1920
Vladimir Tatlin
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Rusakov Worker's Club
Moscow, 1928
Konstantin Melkanov |
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Melkinov House
Moscow, 1929
Konstantin Melkanov |
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UN Headquarters
New York City, 1952
Oscar Niemeyer
Le Corbusier
Harrison & Abramovitz |
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Seagram Building
New York City, 1958
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe |
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Unite d'habitation
Marseille, France, 1947
Le Corbusier |
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Hunstanton School
Norfolk, England, 1954
Allison and Peter Smithson |
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| a group of architects who split from the main CIAM conference and founded new architectural movements, namely new brutalism and structuralism. Notable members include Aldo van Eyck and Allison and Peter Smithson |
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Municiple Orphanage
Amsterdam, 1960
Aldo Van Eyck |
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Baker House
MIT campus, 1947
Alvar Aalto |
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Paimio Sanatorium
Paimio, Finland, 1932
Alvar Aalto
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