Ch. 22: Architecture To get a feel for different contemporary architectural styles, study the philosophies and styles of the following four architects: Frank Lloyd Wright Le Corbusier Mies van der Rohe Frank Gehry

Terms “Form follows function.” organic architecture “Less is more.” glass curtain Deconstruction architecture Study the following slides and compare the characteristics of their designs to the comments in the textbook. Also study the buildings by these architects that are included in your textbook. (Print the following slides.)

Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water (private residence)

Wright Jacob’s House

Wright Jacobs House

Le Corbusier Ronchamps Pilgrimage Chapel

Le Corbusier High Court, India

Le Corbusier Carpenter Center, Harvard

Le Corbusier Factory, Ateliers

Mies van der Rohe Seagram Building Apartments

Mies Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology

Mies National Gallery, Berlin

Frank Gehry and Deconstruction (DeCon) Architecture Gehry is often associated with the Deconstruction movement in architecture, a movement influenced by Modernism, Dada, and other forms of questioning traditional values and structures. The term comes from literary and language criticism. “Deconstruction” questions whether commonly accepted notions of structure are able to define and communicate a meaning or truth about a creator's intended definition (a definition of space in architecture, for example). This approach “deconstructs” or “undoes” those preconceptions of space and structure. It tends to go beyond modernism in the extent to which it questions culturally inherited assumptions concerning social goals and functional necessity. DeCon structures are not required to reflect specific social or universal ideas, such as speed or universality of form, and they do not reflect a belief that “form follows function.”

Frank Gehry Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

more of the Guggenheim

Gehry “Dancing House,” Prague (office building)