20th Century Architecture

Buildings that Rock

STYLE  ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

ARTISTS and IMAGES

1900-40 U.S.
1900-40 Europe
Modern
Postmodern

1900-40 United States
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Robie House
Chicago
1909		 wright_robie.jpg (32532 bytes)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Kaufmann House (Falling Water)
Bear Run, Pennsylvania
1936-40		 wright_falling.jpg (33679 bytes)
1900-40 Europe
Gerrit Rietveld
Schroeder House
Utrecht, Holland
1924		 rietveld_schroeder.jpg (23100 bytes)
Walter Gropius
The Bauhaus
Dessau, Germany
1925-26		 gropius_bauhaus.jpg (12685 bytes)
Le Corbusier (Swiss, Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
Villa Savoye
Poissy
1929-30		 corbusier_savoyeext.jpg (17537 bytes)corbusier_savoyeint.jpg (16490 bytes)
Modern Architecture
Mies van der Rohe
Seagram's Building
New York
1958
with Philip Johnson		 vanderrohe_seagrams.jpg (16423 bytes)
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York
1946-59		 wright_guggenheimext.jpg (24899 bytes)wright_guggenheimint.jpg (29522 bytes)
Le Corbusier
Notre Dame du Haut
Ronchamp
1950-55		 corbusier_notreext.jpg (13740 bytes)corbusier_notreint.jpg (14341 bytes)
Postmodern Architecture
Philip Johnson
AT&T Building
New York
1978-84
with Burgee and Simmons
Michael Graves
Public Service Building
Portland
1981-83		 graves_public.jpg (28987 bytes)
Renzo Piano
Centre de Georges Pompidou (The Beaubourg)
Paris
1977
with Richard Rogers		 piano_pompidou.jpg (23800 bytes)

VOCAB

prairie style house
cantilever
ferro concrete "organic" architecture
module
pilotis
screen wall or curtain wall
ribbon windows

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