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Modernism Flashcards

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Hollyhock House

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F L Wright
Los Angeles
1920

Design is more important than function; more interested in inventive technology

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Robbie House

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FL Wright
Chicago
1910

Horizontal emphasis; later called “prairie style”

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Falling Water

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FL Wright
Bear Run, PA
1930

Cantilever structure; environment specific

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Citrohan House

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Le Corbusier
1920

Flexible interior and curtain wall exterior walls - similar to NYC skyscraper buildings

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Plan Voisin

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Le Corbusier
for the remaking of Paris
1930

“Dream vision of the future”

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Villa Savoye

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Le Corbusier
Near Paris
1930

Elimination of ground floor using stilts; geometric forms; structure and walls/composition of building are separate things

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Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Mies
Chicago
1950

Skeletal structure of I beams and glass sheets

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Farnsworth House

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Mies
Near Chicago
1950

Metal and glass - no masonry

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