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. 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

18. 20th Century contributions include the CANTILEVER CHAIR
Bauhaus
20th Century contributions include the CANTILEVER CHAIR

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

20. Empire State Building

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

22. 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.

23. Malevich, Black Square, 1913.

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

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

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

27. Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1906.

29. Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, 1937.