Modern Architecture - Innovation for Construction and Engineering

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Modern Architecture Architectural History ACT 322 Doris Kemp

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Modern Architecture Modern Architecture: The Chicago School Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright Modern Architecture: European Modernism

Modern Architecture 

The birth of modern architecture came from a realization that the future should not hinge on the past Earlier periods had relied on even earlier periods to gain inspiration  Modern architecture wanted to look to the future 

Modern Architecture: The Chicago School 

Early Modernism 

The Chicago School Late 19th and early 20th century  Vast building boom in the heart of Chicago in 1885 





Great Fire of 1871 had destroyed much of the city

Leading architectural teams  



Burnham and Root Holabird and Roche Adler and Sullivan

Modern Architecture: The Chicago School 

Monadnock Building c. 1889 – 1891  Burnham and Root  Client had demanded an extremely simplified appearance  Features 

Tall, elongated building  16 stories  Sheer brickwork  Very simple with no décor or carvings 

Modern Architecture: The Chicago School

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Modern Architecture: The Chicago School

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Modern Architecture: The Chicago School 

Marquette Building Holabird and Roche  1893 – 1894  Has a modern theme with a hint of the Classical  Features 

Paneling and cornice work at the top  Continuous piers that support massive lintels recessed in the center bays 

Modern Architecture: The Chicago School

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Modern Architecture: The Chicago School

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Modern Architecture: The Chicago School 

Walker Warehouse 1888 – 1889  Adler and Sullivan  Considered a stripped Romanesque style 





Lack of rhythms, rustication, and carved ornament

Features Twin, arched entranceways  Trabeated, flanking bays 

Modern Architecture: The Chicago School

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Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright 

Frank Lloyd Wright The youngest member of the Chicago School  Flamboyant personality and a sense of prophetic mission in architecture  Studied for two years at the University of Wisconsin as an engineer 





Decided he did not want to be an engineer

Designed the Larkin Building in Buffalo, NY 

A radical leap into modern architecture

Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright 

Larkin Building Buffalo, NY  1904  Represented a leap into modern architecture from the 19th century  Features 

Rectangular, skylit atrium  Reception facilities, lavatories, lockers, and office space 

Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright

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Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright

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Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright 

Winslow House 1893  Frank Lloyd Wright  River Forest, IL  A study in contrasts 

Front of the house was all geometric  Rear garden of the house was completely different than the front 



Shattered the front’s boxlike structure with splintered, aggressive forms

Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright

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Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright

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Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright 

Francis W. Little House 1913  Frank Lloyd Wright  The grandest of Wright’s early interiors  Now installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City 

Modern Architecture: Early Frank Lloyd Wright

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Modern Architecture: European Modernism 

Josef Maria Olbrich 

Viennese architect who built the first modern structure in Vienna, Austria 



Secession Building

One of the founders of the Viennese Secession 

Architectural movement of modernism in Austria

Modern Architecture: European Modernism 

Secession Building Vienna, Austria  1898 – 1899  Designed for exhibitions  Features a sky lighted interior framed by closed outer walls  Façade is reminiscent of an Egyptian pylon 

Modern Architecture: European Modernism

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Modern Architecture: European Modernism 

Auguste Perret 

French architect who used ferroconcrete in an aesthetically pleasing way 



Alliance of the tensile strength of steel with the compressive resistance of concrete

Structures Ponthieu Garage, Paris  Le Raincy Church, Near Paris 

Modern Architecture: European Modernism 

Ponthieu Garage Paris  Façade reflects the concrete post-and-beam construction behind it  1905 

Modern Architecture: European Modernism

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Modern Architecture: European Modernism 

Le Raincy Church Located near Paris  1912 – 1913  Medieval theme  Modern ferroconcrete construction 

Modern Architecture: European Modernism

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Modern Architecture: European Modernism

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References   



Sullivan, Mary; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wdpt1.html Trachtenburg/Hyman; Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity Wodehouse/Moffett; A History of Western Architecture

Modern Architecture Architectural History ACT 322 Doris Kemp

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