1. De Stijl Dutch for “The Style” (also known as Neoplasticism) 1917-1931
Sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. They advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour — they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.
Goal: to create a precise, mechanical order lacking in the natural world.
Piet Mondrian, Composition With Yellow, Blue and Red,

2. Piet Mondrian, Composition No. 10, 1939-42.

3. Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1943.

4. Mondrian, Evening, 1908. 4

5. Mondrian, Blue Tree, 1908. 5

6. Mondrian, Gray Tree, 1911. 6

7. Mondrian, Horizontal Tree, 1911.7

8. Mondrian, Flowering Tree, 1912.8

9. Mondrian, Composition in Blue, Gray, and Pink, 1913.

10. Gerrit Rietveld De Stijl Chair, 1917.

11. Gerrit Rietveld, Schroder House, 1923-24.

16. Matt Curless, Mondrian Chair, 2005. NEO-DE STIJL

17. Malevich and SUPREMATISM
Malevich, Self-Portrait, 1933.
Malevich, Supremism, 1916.

18. Malevich and SUPREMATISM
The object in itself is meaningless... the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless''.
What Malevich wanted was a non-objective representation, “the supremacy of pure feeling.''
Malevich, Self-Portrait, 1933.

19. Malevich, Black Square, 1913.

20. Malevich, Supremist No. 58, 1916-17.

21. Intro in Modern Architecture
The massive development of cast iron led to a reduction in price, which allowed many architects to design taller buildings.
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, MODERNISM

22. Intro in Modern Architecture
Louis Sullivan
Considered “The Father of Modern Architecture”
“Form follows Function”
Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and influence on the PRAIRIE SCHOOL
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, MODERNISM

23. Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, MODERNISM

24. Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, MODERNISM

25. Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, MODERNISM

26. Bauhaus German style movement from 1919-1933
All of the Bauhaus directors were architects. (“The ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building”)
Walter Gropius, Founder
Bauhaus Logo

27. 20th Century contributions include the CANTILEVER CHAIR
Bauhaus
20th Century contributions include the CANTILEVER CHAIR

28. Mies Van Der Rohe Seagram Building, 1958.
“LESS is MORE”

29. Empire State Building

30. Mies Van Der Rohe German Pavilion, 1929. BAUHAUS

33. Mies Van Der Rohe Barcelona Chair, 1929.
BAUHAUS

34. Prairie School architects are usually marked by:
horizontal lines
flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves
windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape
solid construction & indigenous materials
Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate to the native prairie landscape.
The term "Prairie School" was not actually used by these architects to describe themselves ; the term was coined by H. Allen Brooks, one of the first architectural historians to write extensively about these architects and their work.
The Prairie school shared an embrace of handcrafting and craftsman guilds as a reaction against the new assembly line, mass production manufacturing techniques, which they felt created inferior products and dehumanized workers.

35. Frank Lloyd Wright Considered best architect of last 125 years
Known for ‘Prairie Style’ architecture

36. Frank Lloyd Wright, Darwin D. Martin House, 1904.

37. Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1906.

39. Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, 1937.