Modernism Flashcards
A design movement that rejects historical styles, focusing on materials and functional requirements to determine form, leading to machine aesthetics.
Modernism
The architect known as the “Father of the Skyscraper” and “Father of Modernism,” who coined the phrase “Form follows function.”
Louis Sullivan
The first building to use an elevator and the first to reach 10 stories, designed by Louis Sullivan.
Wainwright Building
A 20th-century architect who was an apprentice of Louis Sullivan and embraced new technology in his organic designs.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A house built over a waterfall in Pennsylvania, also known as the Kauffman Residence, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Falling Water
A New York museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, featuring organic shapes and a spiraling ramp for visitors to view exhibits.
Guggenheim Museum
A Wisconsin building also called the Administration Building, constructed with over 200 sizes and shapes of bricks, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Johnson Wax Administration Building
A type of house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that can be assembled using prefabricated wood sandwich panels.
Usonian Houses
A Swiss-French architect known as “Corbu,” who wrote Vers Une Architecture and described a house as “a machine for living in.”
Le Corbusier
A weekend house by Le Corbusier, featuring stilted architecture with slender columns to create an illusion of lightness.
Villa Savoye
A tenement housing project in France designed by Le Corbusier.
Unite d’Habitation
A system created by Le Corbusier, combining anthropometrics with the Golden Proportion.
Modulor
A chapel in Ronchamp, France, designed by Le Corbusier, made mostly of concrete with thick walls and modular windows.
Notre Dame-du-Haut
