houses for art lovers

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Houses for Art Lovers

• Louis Sullivan• Daniel Burnham• Frank Lloyd Wright• Charles Rennie Mackintosh• Victor Horta• Hector Guimard• Joseph Hoffman• Adolf Loos• Le Corbusier• Alvar Aalto

the modern project

break with past, often forcible rejection, new spirit, progressive movement

social equality, liberation of masses oppressed by industrial labour

purity, cleanliness, unornamented, honesty of expression

new materials and technologies, mass production, prefabrication

function equated with beauty, planning and order produce ideal

abstraction, immutable truths of mathematics, basis for universality

Chicago after the fire of 1871

Transportation Building - Louis Sullivan

H H Richardson, Field Building, Chicago

Adler & Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott, Chicago

LeBaron Jenney fireproofing

Adler & Sullivan, Chicago Auditorium

Adler & Sullivan, Wainwright

Adler & Sullivan Guaranty

Frank Lloyd Wright Winslow House

Frank Lloyd Wright, Ennis-Brown House, Los Angeles, 1923-4

Frank Lloyd Wright, Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois, 1904-7

Frank Lloyd Wright – Robie House – 1906-9

Frank Lloyd Wright – Robie House – 1906-9

Robie House – interior

“Rainbow City”

Chicago World’s Fair 1933 - Sky Ride

Westinghouse Electric Pavilionlocomotives, generators, dirigibles and household appliances

Pavilions of motor manufacturers

Adler & Sullivan Guaranty

Frank Lloyd Wright – Robie House – 1906-9

Postcard view of the Clyde and Glasgow from the Sailor’s Home 1900

Charing Cross, Glasgow 1901

Robert Adam– Trades Hall 1791-4

Gildard & MacFarlane – Britannia Panopticon Music Hall 1857 – Britain’s first music hall

Alexander “Greek” Thomson – St Vincent Street Church 1859

Arch of Titus, Rome 1891

Study of tomb, St Croce, Florence 1891

Hector Guimard – Metro station entrances, Paris 1900

Hector Guimard – Castel Beranger, Paris 1894-9

Victor Horta - Tassel House, Brussels 1892-3

Victor Horta – Tassel House, Brussels 1892-3

James MacLaren – Fortingall village

C F A Voysey – Broadleys, Windermere, 1898

H M Baillie-Scott – Blackwell fireplace 1900

C R Mackintosh Glasgow Herald 1893-4

C R Mackintosh - Daily Record 1901

Decorative panel for Buchanan St Tea Rooms 1896-7

Margaret McDonald textile design 1900

The Four – installation at International Exhibition of Decorative Art, Turin 1902Rose Boudoir

C R Mackintosh – Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow 1904

C R Mackintosh – Hill House

C R Mackintosh - House for an Art Lover, competition entry 1901

Competition entries by Baillie Scott and Leopold Bauer

House for an Art Loverbuilt 1990-4 to Mackintosh’s design by Andy MacMillan

Josef Hoffman – Palais Stoclet – 1905-11 - Brussels

Le Corbusier – Villa La Roche -1923 - Paris

Alvar Aalto - Villa Mairea – 1938 - Noormarkku Finland

the modern projectWe can see how each of these houses has demonstrated characteristics of

break with past, often forcible rejection, new spirit, progressive movement

social equality, liberation of masses oppressed by industrial labour

purity, cleanliness, unornamented, honesty of expression

new materials and technologies, mass production, prefabrication

function equated with beauty, planning and order produce ideal

abstraction, immutable truths of mathematics, basis for universality

the modern projectWe can see how each of these houses has demonstrated characteristics of

break with past, often forcible rejection, new spirit, progressive movement

social equality, liberation of masses oppressed by industrial labour

purity, cleanliness, unornamented, honesty of expression

new materials and technologies, mass production, prefabrication

function equated with beauty, planning and order produce ideal

abstraction, immutable truths of mathematics, basis for universality

In addition, they have revealed how architects relate their works with

place, landscape, nature, national identity and artistry.