Modernism in Architecture
Old Toronto City Hall, Romanesque Revival style
Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1885 Flat Iron Building, N.Y.C., 1902 New technology: steel girder skeletons...
New technology, old fashioned styles…
Antoni Gaudi, 1905 Breaking with the past; new design aesthetics.
Antoni Gaudi, Casa Mila Apartments,
C.R. Mackintosh; Glasgow School of Art,
Frank Lloyd Wright: Robie House,
Frank Lloyd Wright: Guggenheim Museum,
Bauhaus School of Art and Design Dessau, Germany, 1925
Bauhaus Design
Le Corbusier: The International Style Villa Savoye, 1929
Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye interior, 1929
Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation,
Philip Johnson: Glass House, 1949
Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, 1950
Mies van der Rohe: sketch of a glass tower
Mies van der Rohe: TD Centre, Toronto, 1967
Le Corbusier’s vision of Paris
Nathan Philips Square, Toronto
Government Center, Boston
Oscar Niemeyer : Brazilia
Jane Jacobs said: Modernism didn’t work.