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Modern Architecture Since 1900
Modern Architecture Since 1900
Modern Architecture Since 1900
William J R Curtis
- Winslow House
- Combines classical tradition (silsbee was forgotten) - Shingle Style
- Sullivans abstract work - base, middle and head
- Wright sense of order in nature - sympathy to nature
- Over 100 commissions in fifteen years
- Chicago developed quick - middle class- new money - instincts/ideals
- Wrights clients - value for money
- Logical plans- elaborate trappings- attention to hot and cold water system - focused on
all details - built in furniture - over hanging eaves - quality of space
- Wright - fantasy -sober - scale
- Fireplace - Roman bricks - set with logs on the floor (Praire) stained glass windows abstract plant forms - changing light
- Houses responded to rituals of the new suburban bourgeoise
- Traditional image of American home
- Praire style
- Experiment - extensions - refinements of principles
- Ideas from Arts and Crafts values- simplicity - honest and direct use of materials
- Link between buildings- nature - fixtures - fittings - elevated moral ideas
- 1901 Arts and Crafts paper - simple geometrical shapes can be turned into machine
saws
- New mechanised age
- Industrialisation to provide a decent environment for life
- Japanese Architecture- used to achieve synthesis - however didn't visit until 1905
- Dwelling space - garden, conservatory, guest house, stable, this is were he really got
used to the method of organisation of plan, geometrical grid, get axis/direction
- Sophisticated, abstract, pattern, unlike Mondrian painting, interior/exterior, figure/ground,
have equal value and formal principles.
- Coonley House (1908) Riverside
- Wealthy commission - Prairie house palace with control of detail and scale
- Early houses - flat and rectangular - small to medium size
- Glasner House (1904) - North Shore of Chicago - heavy wooded because at the edge of
a ravine, horizontal datum supplied with roofline,
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