Architectural History 2 Group Presentation
Topic 5 Reaction to Industrial Revolution
CHUNG WEN HARN JESSELYN LIM WONG WAN JIUAN CHIEW KIET YANG 0703P61796 0701P59791 0701P59759 0701P60099
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Industrial Revolution
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Nothing is now done by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivancethe living artisan is driven from his workshop. Thomas Carlyle
In this new system of force the mastery of the machine is not in the hands of mankind. It is in the control of infinitely small groups of individuals who rule without a single one of the democratic sanctions that we have known. President Roosevelt
The machine is here to stay
Marshall Field, A good copy is the best we can do.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Picture Sources: www.arc-design.com.au; http://www.jroy.ca/wpimages/wpd86a8679.png
The Unity of Design and Machine
Art Nouveau 1880-1910 Origin: Europe
Key facts
Rejected historicism.
New Art
New Art
Described as the first truly modern, international style.
New Art New Art New Art
The introduction of new forms, the embracement of mass-production, and the focus on the natural as a source of inspiration. Two types - Curvilinear whiplash (Spain, France, England, Vienna and USA) and Rectilinear (Scotland and Germany)
Key characteristics Curvilinear: organic foliate forms, sinuous lines, non-geometric whiplash curves Rectilinear: geometric forms, severe silhouettes
Staircase of the Maison and Atelier of Victor Horta
The Room de Luxe at The Willow Tearooms, Glasgow., Charles Rennie Mackintosh in collaboration with Margaret MacDonald for Catherine Cranston. Picture Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/art_nouveau
House for an Art Lover - Charles Rennie Mackintosh
The Music Room
- A house designed and built for an art lover. - Decorations were based on a central theme. - Dining room and music room was designed based on the theme roses. - The oval room was designed as a space especially for women and was decorated in a symbolic manner.
The Oval Room
Metro entrance of the Porte Dauphine Station Hector Guimard
Constructed out of interchangeable, prefabricated cast iron and glass parts. Sinuous green cast-iron tentacles appears as surrealistic dragonfly wings.
Castel Beranger Commentary (1890) Hector Guimard
Demonstrates the synthetic subtleties of his style, in which urban and rustic references could be judiciously mixed together
Tassel House (1892-1893) Victor Horta
Hortas building that marks a clear break from the Eclectic Style and brought Art Nouveau to full maturity. Industrial materials were openly used. Spatial continuity and fluidity were provided between floors by a coiled line.
p.38, Duncan (1994) and pg.176, Postiglione and Giossel (2004)
Maison de Peuple (1895) Victor Horta The buildings glass curtain walls and railing united aesthetically with the interior, where the entire infrastructure of supports, girders and stone imposts are revealed. This building clearly displayed Hortas highly distinctive modernist style.
p.37, Duncan (1994)
Jugendstil (1890-1910) Origin: Germany
Key facts
Jugendstil - youth style, took its name from the decorative arts journal Jugend German and Scandinavian interpretation of Art Nouveau was inspired by the vernacular and had a simplicity of form and a startling modernity. Advocated the use of natural forms as a means of reforming design, and in turn society. aim of producing a naturalistic forms of Jugendstil with more formal function and practical language of design due to the effect of industrial revolution.
Key characteristics
floral and other plant-inspired motifs Peter Behrens Plain, undecorated wall surfaces Henri can de Velde Geometric n naturalistic forms Energetic, organic designs inspired by advances in science and technology
Key figure
Behrens House - Peter Behrens
the high-pitched roof drawn from the German vernacular
Undecorated wall faade with curvilinear forms arch ornament
Gate with organic shaped ornamentation
Chemnitz Villa - Henri can de Velde
Secession 1897-1920 Origin: Vienna, Austria
Key facts The Vienna secession refused to accept the conservative standards of the official arts academy, opting instead to pursue their own creative vision as an independent association. Aimed to bring architecture and the decorative arts closer together. Early work was created within the art nouveau style, latterly, the groups designers opted for an increasingly rectilinear esthetic. Advances in science and technology provided a new, deeper understanding of nature
Key characteristics Geometric abstraction Rectilinear forms Decorated surfaces
Key Architect
-Otto Wagner - Josef Maria Olbrich
Majolica Haus - Otto Wagner
-named after the weather-proof, painted ceramic floral designs on its faade flat, rectilinear shape of the building -used new modern materials and rich color, yet retained the traditional use of ornamentation. -decorative iron balconies, colored ceramic floral designs, and flexible S-shaped linear ornamentation
Sezession House Josef Maria Olbrich
-Art Nouveau pavilion with gold leaf sphere floating over a cream colored block -The "golden cabbage" is composed from 3000 gilt-iron "leaves" to form an airy look - The exterior has clever details of owls, salamanders and turtles
Modeqnium
Definition of Modernism
Applies to those forward-looking architects, designers and artisans who, from 1880s on, forged a new and diverse vocabulary principally to escape Historicism, the tyranny of previous historical styles.
-Retrieved 09 March 2009 from http://www.artsmia.org/MODERNISM/
Ideology of Modeqnium
William Morris (1834-1896)
- An English artist - Formed the basis for the Arts and Crafts Movement - Belief that utility was as important as beauty
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. - William Morris
William Morris (1834-1896)
Bird Designed for the walls in his drawing room at Kelmscott House, London
Dove and Rose Silk and wool double cloth
Kelmscott Manor depicted in the frontispiece to the 1893 Kelmscott Press edition of News from Nowhere.
- Retrieved March 10, 2009 from http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/textiles/morris.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris
Ideology of Modernism
Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
- First truly modern architect - Believed that exterior of an building should reflect its interior structure and function - Works always related to Art Nouveau - Came out with the concept of Form Follows Function
"It is the pervading law of all things organic, and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things super-human, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.
- Louis Sullivan
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Modernism Architecture
Louis Sullivan
Wainwright Building, Saint Louis (1890-1891)
Carson Pirie, Scott & Co. Department Store, Chicago (1899-1901)
Guaranty Building, Buffalo (1894-1895)
What is the chief characteristic of the tall office building? And at once we answer, it is lofty The force and power of altitude must be in it It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line. (Louis Sullivan, The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered,1896)
Modernism Architecture
Eiffel Tower (1887-1889) by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
Falling Water (1935-1939) by Frank Lloyd Wright
Unite d'habitation (1945-1952) by Le Cobusier
-Retrieved March 10, 2009 from http://www.wikipedia.com
Influences
Followed the idea of Sullivan, Viennese architect Adolf Loos wrote a manifesto named Ornament and Crime, to show the avoidance of ornament was a sign of spiritual strength. Frank Lloyd Wright accepted Morris design philosophy for producing high quality craftsmanship. But what he thought machinery could actually improve natural materials to expose the beauty of the product, which was The Art and Craft of the Machine.
During 1920s, the aesthetic of the machine became a central theme in modernism. Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier were the main roles.
Modernism which merged the architecture and industrial design reflects the changes in technology and society. This movement resulted designers to think about anew to their environment. This movement also resulted architect to have engineer as a partner who makes sure architects plan were workable.
Conclusion
One might define the culture of authenticity in the early twentieth century as one that would restore, through the work of art, a lost sense of "the real thing." In more specific terms, it sought to reconnect the worker and the thing made, and yet celebrate the positive virtues of the machine; it would be based on a functional articulation of parts to whole and simplicity of design, yet it would be complex and subtle; it would eschew unnecessary ornamentation, yet it would value the work of the hand; it was progressive in its orientation to the future, yet founded on a past that was defined in "American" terms. In short, it was a kind of balancing act, an effort at cultural synthesis, and fraught accordingly with certain irreconcilable tensions. Miles Orvell
-Source http://www.wikipedia.com
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