modernism in architecture. old toronto city hall, 1899. romanesque revival style
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Modernism in Architecture
Old Toronto City Hall, 1899. Romanesque Revival style
Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1885
Flat Iron Building,
N.Y.C., 1902New
technology: steel girder skeletons...
New technology, old fashioned styles…
Antoni Gaudi, 1905
Breaking with the past; new design aesthetics.
Antoni Gaudi, Casa Mila Apartments, 1905 - 07
C.R. Mackintosh; Glasgow School
of Art, 1896 - 1910
Frank Lloyd Wright: Robie House, 1908 - 1910
Frank Lloyd Wright: Robie House, 1908 - 1910
Frank Lloyd Wright: Guggenheim Museum, 1956-59
Bauhaus School of Art and Design Dessau, Germany, 1925
Bauhaus Design
Le Corbusier: The International Style Villa Savoye, 1929
Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye interior, 1929
Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52
Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52
Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52
Philip Johnson: Glass House, 1949
Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, 1950
Mies van der Rohe: sketch of a
glass tower
Mies van der Rohe: TD Centre,
Toronto, 1967
Le Corbusier’s vision of Paris
Nathan Philips Square, Toronto
Government Center, Boston
Oscar Niemeyer : Brazilia
Oscar Niemeyer : Brazilia
Jane Jacobs said: Modernism didn’t work.