Altes Museum

Carl Friedrick Schinkel

Berlin, Germany

1824-1828

1 of the 1st museums, design of the building "takes you to a sacred place"

Crystal Palace

Joseph Paxton

London

1850-51

Housed Great Exhibition of 1851

the birth of prefrabrication

Bibliotheque Ste. Genevieve

Henri Labrouste

Paris

1843-50

1st use of iron skeletal structure + made visible in civic building

iron construction - poetry of construction

names of authors of books inside engraved on facade

Marshall Fields Store

Henry H. Richardson

1885-87

Chicago

Dawn of Modern Architecture

Auditorium Building

Louis Sullivan

Chicago

1886

"Form Follows Function"

Monadnock Building

John Root and Daniel Burnham

Chicago

1884

Plain facade, no historical connection, no ornimentation

Reliance Building

Burnham and Root

Chicago

1890

free construction -> big windows

Wainwright Building

Louis Sullivan

St. Louis

1890

3 part scheme, like classical column, everyother flute is not structural, ornimentation from natural things

Gauranty Building

Louis Sullivan

1894

3 part scheme, verticle emphasis, byzantine column,

Carson Pirie Scott Store

Louis Sullivan

Chicago

1900

Sullivan's last major commison

Gamble House

Green + Green

Pasadena, CA

1910

Japanese inspiration, no clear division between inside and outside

Robie House

Frank Lloyd Wright

Chicago

1910

Developed idea of interior space, not based on boring European tradition, Clear Prarie Style

Unity Church

Frank Lloyd Wright

1905

Illinois

Boldly used concrete in a religious building

Larkin Building

Frank Lloyd Wright

Buffalo, NY

1905

Open interior, sky lit atrium, commisioned behind Sullivan's back, Wright's 1st building on his own

Glasgow School of Art

Charles Rennie Makintosh

Glasgow, Scottland

1900

Directly handles glass and metal, big windows in studios, everything designed by Makintosh (complete work of art)

Sagrada Familia

Antoni Gaudi

Barcelona, Spain

1882-2026

built for aniversary, contraversial bc rienforced concrete, made with tourist dollars

Park Güell

Antoni Gaudi

1900-14

Barcelona, Spain

Areas from all different cultures - like Disney World

Casa Batllo (House of Bones)

Antoni Gaudi

1905

Barcelona, Spain

Tells a story about the dragon St. George (patron of Barcelona) killed, inside and outside very different (expresses idea of pure soul)

Hotel Tassel

Victor Horta

Brussels

1892-93

1st clear example of art noveau

Paris Metro

Hector Guimard

Paris

1900

One of the 1st public places where art nouveau was applied, Subway stops are jewels with urban fabrics, one of the earliest examples of the subway system

Rue Franklin Apartments

August Peret

Paris

1902

known for rectangle concrete frame construction, pattern in concrete, for low income people to see the light too

Sucession Building

Joseph Albritch

Vienna

1898

Broke away from ring stross

Postal Savings Bank

Otta Wagner

Vienna

1900

center of money and power, used glass bricks to allow you to see the glow of gold through the floor, "high tech" exposed ventilation

American Bar

Loos

Vienna

1907

made a tiny room look much bigger with the use of mirrors

Goldman and Salatsch Store

Loos

Vienna

1909

Across the Street from the Imperial Court, liberated mankind from superfluous labor

AEG Factory

Peter Barons

Berlin

1910

logo engraving (advertisement), influenced by Parthenon (colonade down the side), supported by a stystem of trusses

Fagus Factory

Walter Gropius

Germany

1911-13

Modern Architecture about abstraction, ephasised Avant-Gaurd theme, free standing facade: facade walls were purely decorative

Glass Pavillion

Bruno Taut

Cologne

1914

celebration of idustrialization, show off how good ability to pre-fab glass panels was

La Citta Nuova

Antoni Sant'Elia

Concept - Never Built

1913-14

Represents idea of Megastructure as a city

Schroder House

Gerrit Rietveld

Utrecht, Netherlands

1923

Resembles De Stijl painting style (like Mondrian)

Maison Citrohan

Le Corbusier

1920

France

A mass-producible "machine for living", uses the domino system

Domino House

Le Corbusier

1914

Concept

"freeing" from techtonics, expresses 5 points of architecture

Rusakov Workers Club

Konstantin Melinkov

Moscow

1927-1928

Seats project out of the auditorium, made for a new type of program (workers club)

USSR Pavilion

Konstantin Melnikov

Paris

1930

Propoganda instrument (Avant-gaurd in Russia), wasn't Art Deco like the other buildings (only other like it was Le Corbusier's)

Project for Monument to Third International

Vladimir Taltin

1919

Concept - Never built

Symbolises Russian power, different sections in interior rotate, Baroque architecture

-Factories

-Colonade (like Parthenon)

-Corner doesn't support anything

-Name of company on building

Robie House

-Horizontal Lines (Like Midwestern Landscape)

-Central Fire Place (Hearth)

-Connection to Outside (Park, Courtyard)

Guaranty Building

-emphasised verticle line

-3 part scheme (like column)

-detail @ top influenced by nature (trees)

-made of iron and glass (thus the name)

-everything was prefabricated so assembly was quick

Eur: brick, defined floor plan,

USA: wood, open floor plan,

Focus on design

Handmade VS. Machine Made

-Which is better?

1. Pilotis (free standing columns, lift off ground)

2. Flat Roof - Garden Terrace

3. Free Interior

4. Free composition of external curtain walls

5. Ribbon windows

-expressed emotional spirit about social justice

-for a socialist group

-interior pieces supposed to rotate (different time lengths)

-Made of all glass

-Ad for glass factory - show that mass produced products can create beautiful architecture

-how it looked changed from day to night