20th Century Architecture
Buildings that Rock
STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB
1900-40 U.S.
1900-40 Europe
Modern
Postmodern
1900-40 United States | |
Frank Lloyd Wright The Robie House Chicago 1909 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright Kaufmann House (Falling Water) Bear Run, Pennsylvania 1936-40 |
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1900-40 Europe | |
Gerrit Rietveld Schroeder House Utrecht, Holland 1924 |
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Walter Gropius The Bauhaus Dessau, Germany 1925-26 |
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Le Corbusier (Swiss, Charles Edouard Jeanneret) Villa Savoye Poissy 1929-30 |
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Modern Architecture | |
Mies van der Rohe Seagram's Building New York 1958 with Philip Johnson |
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Frank Lloyd Wright The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York 1946-59 |
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Le Corbusier Notre Dame du Haut Ronchamp 1950-55 |
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Postmodern Architecture | |
Philip Johnson AT&T Building New York 1978-84 with Burgee and Simmons |
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Michael Graves Public Service Building Portland 1981-83 |
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Renzo Piano Centre de Georges Pompidou (The Beaubourg) Paris 1977 with Richard Rogers |
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prairie style house
cantilever
ferro concrete "organic" architecture
module
pilotis
screen wall or curtain wall
ribbon windows