Modernism in Architecture

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Modernism in Architecture
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Old Toronto City Hall, 1899. Romanesque Revival
style
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Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1885
Flat Iron Building, N.Y.C., 1902
New technology steel girder skeletons...
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New technology, old fashioned styles
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Breaking with the past new design
aesthetics.
Antoni Gaudi, 1905
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Antoni Gaudi, Casa Mila Apartments, 1905 - 07
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C.R. Mackintosh Glasgow School of Art, 1896 -
1910
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Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House,
1908 - 1910
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Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House,
1908 - 1910
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Frank Lloyd Wright Guggenheim
Museum, 1956-59
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Bauhaus School of Art and Design
Dessau, Germany, 1925
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Bauhaus Design
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Le Corbusier The International Style
Villa Savoye, 1929
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Le Corbusier
Villa Savoye interior, 1929
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Le Corbusier
Unité dHabitation, 1947-52
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Le Corbusier
Unité dHabitation, 1947-52
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Le Corbusier
Unité dHabitation, 1947-52
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Philip Johnson
Glass House, 1949
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Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House, 1950
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Mies van der Rohe sketch of a glass tower
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Mies van der Rohe TD Centre, Toronto, 1967
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Le Corbusiers vision of Paris
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Nathan Philips Square, Toronto
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Government Center, Boston
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Oscar Niemeyer Brazilia
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Oscar Niemeyer Brazilia
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Jane Jacobs said Modernism didnt work.