1. The International Style

2. Wasmuth Portfolio

3. Wasmuth Image

5. Chrysler Building, 1927 William Van Alen

6. World War I

7. Walter Gropius

8. The Ecole des Beaux Arts

11. The Bauhaus and “Modernism” (The International Style)
Walter Gropius, Bauhaus complex, 1920s

13. Bauhaus curriculum: Foundations course

14. Banishes historical styles from the curriculum
Emphasis on materials, technology, and machine made parts
But also on creativity

15. Mondrian

16. Rietveld, The Schroeder House, Utrecht, c. 1920

18. “A House is a Machine for Living In”
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoy, near Paris, 1920s

24. “Less is More”
Mies Van der Rohe, Barcelona Pavilion, Spain

27. The MoMA Exhibition of 1932
Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson

28. International Style

30. Gropius
Le Corbusier
Mies Van der Rohe
Raymond Hood
And the “grandfather”: Frank Lloyd Wright
Of the74 buildings included in the show, 68 were by European architects

32. Architecture as Volume
(“The prime architectural symbol is no longer the dense brick but the open box”)
Regularity but not necessarily symmetry
No applied decoration—just rely on the materials and structure.
International because it can be placed anywhere—no features that link it to a certain place or time.

33. “Less is More”
Mies Van Der Rohe, The Farnsworth House, 1940s, near Chicago.

35. Volume, regularity

44. 2008

45. Mies, Seagram Building, NYC, 1950s

46. Chrysler Building, 1927 William Van Alen

47. Hood, American Radiator Building, 1924

52. Mies: Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

53. Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, near Paris, 1920s

54. 1923; in English 1927

55. Gropius Harvard Graduate School of Design

57. His house in Lincoln, MA, 1938

59. “The design of the Gropius House is consistent with Bauhaus philosophies of simplicity, functionality, economy, geometry, and aesthetic beauty determined by materials rather than applied ornamentation.”

63. The “Wassily” chair
Marcel Breuer