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- Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow
- Artist: Mondrian
- Era: De Stlil
- Techniques:
- altering grid patterns, sizes, and placement of color planes
- creating an internal cohesion and harmony
- dynamic tension between the size and position of lines, shapes, and colors
- seems like the lines change in size but tis an optical illusion
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- Composition in Blue, Yellow, and Black
- Artist: Mondrian
- Era: De Stlil
- Techniques:
- no direct relationship to reality
- changes postion - changes compositional balance: clam internal order
- line holds attention just as much as blank space does
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- Schroder House
- Artist: Rietveld
- Era: De Stlil
- Techniques:
- main living rooms on second floor with bedrooms on bottom
- connecting to landscape
- open space
- sliding partitions on 2nd floor
- space needs to be thrown open and moveable
- walls can slide across the florr
- rooflines, and balconies look like they're sliding
- cubic units breakup before our eyes
- beams of color - inspired by Mondrian
- big windows - connected to nature
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- From the Radio Tower Berlin
- Artist: Moholy-Nagy
- Era: The Bauhaus
- Techniques:
- angle from the top looking straight down
- vertical, aerial view point
- abrupt shift from eye level to reveal new patterns of reality
- unexpected formal associations
- change one's view of the world
- looking at shapes and lines not meant to see objects or recognize things
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- Homage to the Square: "Ascending"
- Artist: Albers
- Era: The Bauhaus
- Techniques:
- start with yellow
- part of a series
- concentric squares
- art orignates the discrepency between physical fact and psyhic effect
- relativeity and instability of color perception
- vaires hue, value and shade from piece to piece
- depedning on colors squres look like different sizes
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- Shop Block, The Bauhaus
- Artist: Gropius
- Era: The Bauhaus
- Techniques:
- one wing of the building is 3 stories
- wings with appartment buildings - almost entire university
- two sotry bridge of administrative offices
- original one torn down by Nazis
- flocused on skeleton of reinforced concrete- supports are set back from outside planes - allows them to cover building in glass
- returning to design simplicity
- interiors are economy of space
- interaction bewteen students and teachers
- Classical purity
- equilibrium between inner and outer space
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- Tubular Chair
- Artist: Breuer
- Era: The Bauhaus
- Techniques:
- easily mass produced
- reductive, uses a spare amount of fabric
- geometric aesthetic
- space between cloth allows inner and outer space to mix
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- Gobelin Tapestry
- Artist: Stolzl
- Era: The Bauhaus
- Techniques:
- more lively, intricate, and colorful
- geometric patterns
- not as strict verticals and horizontals
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- Model for a Glass Skyscraper
- Artist: Mies Van Der Rohe
- Era: The Bauhaus
- Techniques:
- glass provides new freedom
- play of reflections not typical shadows
- curved lines seem arbitrary
- sufficent illumination of interior, massing of building viewed from street, play of reflections
- three irregular shaped towers
- central court has lobby and community center, porters room
- practicality of purpose
- 2 cylindrical entrances ride at each end of the court, contain elevators, stairways and bathrooms
- everything is trasparent
- horizontal pattern and rhythm emphasized by glass
- cantilevered floor plains
- thin, vertical supports holding up each floor
- creates a web-like delicacy of line through the glass and radiance of the light hitting the windows
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- Villa Savoye
- Artist: Le Corbusier
- Era: International Style
- Techniques:
- country house dominates the landscape
- has more light
- cube of slightly inclosed and deeply penetrated spcae
- three car garaged, bedrooms, bathroom, utility rooms
- 2nd floor is main space
- combining interior and exterior space
- also a roof garden
- entire base supported by thin columns
- ground floor is recessed back
- very open on bottom- long continuous stirp of windows
- slender ribbons of windows* allows lightness of building
- 2nd floor has windscreen that sticks out on top
- dark green base, cream walls and a rose and blue wind screen
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- Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building
- Artist: Howe
- Era: International Style
- Techniques:
- horizontal banding emphasized by ribbon windows
- clean geometric planes
- function divided cubic volumes of space
- expression of urban corporate business, isolated in personal space
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- Chrysler Building
- Artist: Van Alen
- Era: Art Deco
- Techniques:
- 1048ft tall
- steel
- monument to the 20s when they would build the tallest skyscrapers in biggest cities
- diminisheing fan shapes glitter in the sky
- resembles and oriental crown
- honor the business achievements of Chrysler and crown it as king
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- Robie House
- Artist: Wright
- Era: Organic Architecture
- Techniques:
- prairie style architecture because of ground hugging lines that resmeble expansive land
- facade disappears under large roof over hangs
- articulates space in large open areas
- everything is grouped around central fireplace*
- fireplace opens to 2 rooms
- enclosed pattios - strip windows that allow light and views of outside
- sharp angular placement of interior walls
- alludes to cubist exterior with intersecting planes
- not as much movement
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- Kaufmann House
- Artist: Wright
- Era: Organic Architecture
- Techniques:
- weekend retreat home
- built over waterfall
- blocky masses extend out in different directions
- contrasts texutres
- full length strip winodws interweave interior and exterior space
- emphasis on space
- utilizes shape of land*
- large patios - closer to nature=better person
- uses stone river rocks from area
- glass floors to look at waterfall beneath
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