20TH CENTURY (1991-2000) Flashcards
is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as, also known as ‘commercial style’. In the history of architecture, was a
school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century.
CHICAGO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (1880-1910)
BUILD BY William LeBaron Jenney
THIS BUILDING originally had 10 stories and stretched 138 feet in the air.
The Home Insurance Building Date: 1885 - 1931
-one of the most influential American architects of the late 19th century. Working
almost exclusively in Chicago, made important advancements in the
structure of tall office buildings by incorporating iron and steel in his designs.
William Le Barone Jenney (1880-1910)
They designed skyscrapers and large hotels for cities across the country. Their
effects were felt across the nation but a majority of their work focused in the
Midwest and primarily in the Chicago area, where their firm was based. The
Marquette Building in Chicago, built in 1895, is
representative of their work
William Holabird (1854-1923) and Martin Roche (1853-1927)
WERE BUILD BY Architects William Holabird and Martin Roche
THIS BUILDING’S entry and lobby are richly ornamented with works of art
that celebrate the journeys of Jacques Marquette (Pere Marquette), a
French Jesuit priest who explored the Chicago region in the 1670s.
Marquette Building in Chicago 1895
the most important American architect of the 19th
century and is still considered the “Father of the Skyscraper.”
Louis H. Sullivan
He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan
Dankmar Adler
THIS STRUCTURE WERE BUILT BY Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan
Building was first to be named the Taylor Building after
Hascal L. Taylor (1830-1894). IIt was renamed the Prudential Building
about two years after it was completed.
The building illustrates Sullivan’s famous phrase that read: “The
forms continue to function.” Terracotta ornaments, for example,
emphasize the internal structure of the building.
Prudential Building (Guaranty Building), Buffalo March 1895-March 1, 1896
‘new art’,
Art Nouveau Architecture(1890-1920)
a Catalan architect who has become internationally recognised as one of the most
prodigious experts in his discipline, as well as one of the top exponents of modernism.
Antoni Gaudi
Known as La Pedrera (stone quarry) because it resembles an
open quarry in appearance, the building features forms drawn
from nature.
Casa Mila (La Pedrera) , Barcelona
Date: 1906-12
Architect: Antoni Gaudi
pioneered the Art Nouveau style depicted in a wide variety of beautiful buildings
throughout Belgium.
Victor Horta (1861-1947)
It was commissioned by Emile Tassel, a professor of descriptive
geometry at the University of Brussels
Hotel Tassel, Brussels, Belgium
Date:1892-1823
Architect: Victor Horta
Sometimes called the “Eclectic Movement in architecture” the use of visual
styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era.
REVIVALIST ARCHITECTURE (1900-200)
THIS Building was designed by William F. Lamb from the
architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, which produced the building
drawings in just two weeks, using its earlier designs for the Reynolds
Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the Carew Tower in
Cincinnati, Ohio
Empire State Building NYC, (1929) by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.
Date: 1931 (Completed)
Architect: Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
